Amazing Nature
This activity uses hands-on examples and curiosity-inspiring facts to spark wonder about the natural world. Recommended for grades 1 through 6. Time: 30-60 minutes Common Core Standards for this...
View ArticleThe Novel Everyone Should Read: Unsaid
Periodically, I read a novel that I want to include in our humane education graduate programs because the novel speaks a deeper, more poignant and more powerful truth than any work of non-fiction....
View ArticleWe Are All Connected
The World Wildlife Fund has a terrific new PSA demonstrating, through creative visual juxtapositions, how connected we people, animals, and planet are. This is a useful conversation starter about our...
View ArticleMouse vs. Zucchini: A Lesson on Perspective
Using a brief video featuring a mouse and a zucchini on a kitchen counter, students will consider the issue of perspective and discover and think about the perspectives of other people and of nonhuman...
View ArticleTerrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
The small creatures live happily in their forest home, until one day when “the Terrible Things came” and took away all those beings with feathers. The Terrible Things return again and again, each time...
View ArticleNaturaleza Asombrosa
Esta actividad usa ejemplos verdaderos y hechos fascinantes para inspirar la curiosidad del mundo natural. Recomendado para grados 1-6. Duración: 30-60 minutos Averigüe más sobre Normas Common Core...
View ArticleARKive
ARKive offers information and resources about endangered species, issues related to endangered species (such as climate change, ocean acidification, and habitat loss), and activities and other “fun”...
View ArticleThe Trouble With “It”
Image via John Keogh/Flickr. by Shannon Finch I’d like to discuss a small word with a big problem: “it.” First, a little grammar review for you. “It” is a pronoun, like he or she, that takes the place...
View Article“The Wild Robot” Offers Compassion, Courage, and a New Kind of Family
by Lauren Allison “The Wild Robot” (276 pgs, grades 3-6) by award-winning author, Peter Brown, is the story of a robot named Roz who, after a shipwreck, washes up on an island inhabited by animals....
View ArticleShadow
For most 14-year-old boys, summer is a time for fun with friends, but for Matt, summer is just another reminder that his best friend Aman is not there to spend time with him. A few weeks earlier, Aman...
View ArticleThe Emotional Lives of Animals
Leading scientist Marc Bekoff explores the rich emotional lives of animals, and what we can learn from them. The post The Emotional Lives of Animals appeared first on Institute for Humane Education.
View ArticleThe Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Weaving history, literature, science & anecdotes, the author examines the emotions & needs of farm animals. The post The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals appeared...
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