Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans and other resources related to endangered species issues to help you teach and/or learn more about these topics.
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Animal Sentience, Emotions and Intelligence Global Issues Guide
Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources related to nonhuman animal sentience, emotions and intelligence to help you learn and/or teach about this topic. Save
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Animal Testing, Experimentation and Dissection Global Issues Guide
Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans and other resources related to animal experimentation, vivisection, testing and dissection issues to help you teach and/or learn more about these topics.
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Ethical Consumerism Global Issues Guide
When we buy things, how can we do so in ways that do the most good and least harm? Use resources and articles/essays like these to help you think about what you buy and to find products and companies working to be a bit more ethical.
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Most Good, Least Harm
Learn direct ways to become involved with the community, make better choices as consumers, and develop positive messages to live by, and discover that our simple decisions really can change the world.
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Whom Do You Pet & Whom Do You Eat?
What are our relationships with different kinds of animals, and why do those relationships exist? Lead students in an activity that explores why we treat different types of animals differently, and how we can learn to view them with different eyes.
Recommended grades: 5 and upTime: 60 minutes
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Whale’s Stomach
Students learn about the impact of our “throwaway society” by exploring all the different kinds of trash found in a whale’s stomach.
Recommended grades: 3-8
Time: 15-45 minutes
Behind the Scenes
Participants explore the hidden lives of their everyday stuff by investigating how ordinary products come into existence & who/what has been helped or harmed in the creation & distribution of that product. Recommended for grades 6 and up. Time: 45 minutes to several weeks Common Core Standards for this activity (pdf): Download Common Core…
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Exploring the True Price of Palm Oil
by Marsha Rakestraw Last updated 1/31/19 Look in your shopping cart, and you probably see soap and other beauty products, baked goods and other processed foods, perhaps some cleaning products. What you don’t see is that about half those products contain palm oil, which means they are contributing to the destruction of forests and communities,…
Read more »El Estómago de La Ballena
Los estudiantes aprenden sobre el impacto de nuestra “sociedad de usar y tirar” explorando todos los diferentes tipos de basura encontró en el estómago de una ballena. Recomendado para grados 3-8 Duración: 15-45 minutos
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