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Petting Zoo: Pets in the Classroom

These classrooms are using different animals to help students learn and develop. Studies show that animals help lower anxiety and stress and increase educational achievement.

Lasalle Elementary School has a dog named Penny to help with this. And over at Liberty Elementary School, they have geckos, hissing cockroaches, guinea pigs, a turtle, a fish, a chicken, and a dog! Oh my!

Alexandra Samame was an intern with the education team at Ideastream Public Media for the 2023-2024 academic year.