How to Teach About Animals and Responsibility Without Class ‘Pets’
There are so many ways to teach students about responsibility and animal care WITHOUT keeping live animals in your classroom. Check out the alternatives!
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The Emotional Life of Hobbes: a Rough Journey With a Happy Ending
Animals have rich emotional lives. Teach your students how to recognize the emotional needs of other living beings as well as their own.
39 Images and Daily Writing Prompts That Will Help Your Students Develop Empathy for Animals
Help students learn about and relate to animals—and reflect on the animal issues they learn about—on a regular basis.
Teaching With Film: ‘Breaking the Chain’ Discussion Questions
Executive producer Anjelica Huston presents “Breaking the Chain,” a documentary following PETA’s dedicated fieldworkers as they help neglected animals.
Test Prep and Empathy-Building Reading Passage: Fireworks Are Devastating, Not Dazzling
In this reading passage, students will learn that fireworks are devastating, not dazzling, while practicing reading comprehension skills.
Debate Kit: Should All Companion Animals Be Spayed and Neutered?
Free Debate Kit: Exploring the Impacts of Spaying and Neutering Companion Animals The companion animal–overpopulation crisis and the importance of …
Celebrate Amazing Animals with Halloween Activities
Not-So-Scary Animals: Kind Halloween Activities for Kids Blood-sucking vampires, moaning mummies, and Frankenstein’s green monster are all classic and creepy …
What Life Is Like When You’re a Chained Dog
Free Resources to Teach Empathy and Inspire Action for Chained, Backyard Dogs Right this second, countless dogs are chained outdoors …