Social Studies
Download a Class Set of Kindness Pledges
Start the year off right! Foster a compassionate classroom environment by using our printable kindness pledges for grades K–5.
Literary Theme Lesson: Taking a Stand—Empower Students With ‘Liberation Summer’
Theme lessons help students connect to a text and relate it to real life. Here’s a theme lesson for a powerful story your students are sure to enjoy.
Develop Higher-Order Thinking Through Humane Education
Inspire critical thinking in your students through compassion for all animals. Includes suggested readings, worksheets, and activities.
Video: How Bigotry Begins
Speciesism, like sexism and racism, is an oppressive belief system in which those with the most power draw boundaries to …
Novel Study: Robin Lamont’s ‘The Chain’ From The Kinship Series
“The Chain” offers a look inside the seemingly opposing worlds of an undercover animal rights investigator and slaughterhouse workers and their families.
Start an Animal Rights Club at School
Have students who are interested in animal rights? Start an animal rights club!
Fishing: Activities to Teach About the Human Impact on the Environment
Can you imagine oceans with no fish in them? According to some researchers, that might be the situation by 2048 if humans keep eating as many fish as they do now.
Attention, Homeschool Educators! Virtual Learning Resources
Animal-Friendly Virtual Learning Resources for Grades PreK–12 Looking for fun, meaningful ways to keep your homeschooler excited about learning? What …