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Is Animal Dissection Effective? A New Review Has the Answer
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Teacher’s Guest Kills Rabbits Before Dissecting the Animals at a Canadian Elementary School
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Animal-Free Classrooms? PETA’s Hopes for Education in the Age of COVID-19

This fall, PETA hopes students returning to the classroom will find one thing missing: animals. Here’s why we must reshape and rethink education.

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Teaching With Film: Meet Scientists Who Choose Not to Experiment on Animals

“Test Subjects” exposes the pressure on young scientists to hurt animals—even when doing so is contrary to good science.

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Parents: Digital Dissection for Home Learning

TeachKind’s list of science resources will have your kids learning quickly and humanely at home!

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Drop the Egg Experiment in Favor of Humane STEM Activities

Avoid supporting the cruel egg industry by replacing the “egg drop” experiment with one of these nine projects.

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Are Ducks Good ‘Pets’?
What’s Wrong With School Hatching Projects?

Explore humane alternatives to chick- and duckling-hatching projects after discovering what these animals endure both during the lesson and after it’s complete.

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Culinary Educator Lesson: Vegan Replacements

Use these resources in your culinary class to introduce students to vegan replacements that they can use in all their cooking endeavors.

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This Is the Future of Frog Dissection

This new state-of-the-art technology will help spare millions of frogs worldwide, improve student learning, and eliminate exposure to toxic chemicals!

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The Devil’s Dictionary: How Language Can Be Used for Good or Evil

No matter what they call it, using animals in experiments is wrong—period.

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Make Dissection Digital!
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We Are All Animals: Comparative Anatomy With a Compassionate Twist

Teaching comparative anatomy? Use this video and other resources to remind students that we’re all animals and the same in all the ways that matter!

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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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