Humane Classroom Tools and Ideas

No more sending home permission slips or collecting ticket money—observe and learn about wild animals in their natural habitats, without leaving the classroom!

Your students can snack their way through learning math the animal-friendly way.

Things Kind Teachers Would NEVER Be Caught Doing

TeachKind teachers—like you and me—are always seeking ways to make our classrooms even more animal-friendly and teach compassion for all by using cruelty-free cleaning supplies, saving frogs, and addressing the bullying epidemic. We know that animals are not classroom tools, yet sometimes, the tiniest animals are snuck into ecology classroom projects—and that’s not OK. Here … Read more »

Meeting curricular goals without harming animals is a win-win situation for students, teachers and schools. Long gone are the days of dissecting formaldehyde-laden animals and stuffing live fish into 2-liter bottles. Because our knowledge of animal sentience has evolved, science educators are increasingly rejecting those lessons in cruelty. Rather than defaulting to archaic animal experiments … Read more »

Here’s yet another reason to avoid animal dissection.