4th Grade
Boost Those Brains! Kindness-Powered Test Prep for Grades 3–5
These kindness-powered resources are packed with high-interest, animal-themed texts your students will actually want to read! This collection helps learners build essential reading skills while also nurturing empathy, curiosity, and compassion.
Advocating for an End to the Iditarod With Your Elementary School Students (Grades 3–5)
Use the following clips from Sled Dogs to initiate discussions about the Iditarod with your students.
Animal-Friendly Word Problems
Teach students how to be compassionate toward animals through the language used in mathematical word problems.
Inspiring Rescue Videos to Teach Compassion for Fish
Rescue videos aren’t just fun to watch—use them to motivate students to learn about and be kind to animals.
Mirror Neurons: How They Help Students Learn Empathy
With the power of mirror neurons in mind, encourage your students to have empathy for other people and animals.
3 Fish-Friendly Activities to Teach Students Empathy
Don’t judge a book by its cover. As one scientist says, “Fish are more intelligent than they appear.”
31 Animal-Friendly Movies To Stream Today
Spark discussion and boost compassion: films for teachers and students to view at home or in the classroom Watching animal-friendly …
Learning Compassion From Martin Luther King Jr.
Use Dr. King’s inspirational quotations about social justice to introduce students to civil rights and animal rights and ways they can take action.