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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...

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The 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....

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We 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...

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Mouse 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...

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Terrible 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...

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Naturaleza 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...

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ARKive

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”...

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The 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...

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“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....

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Shadow

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...

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The 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.

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The 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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