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Educator Testimonials
Many educators chose to provide high quality science education without using animals. Their humane approach to teaching science allows students to learn using a combination of teaching methods ranging from multimedia computer simulation to self-testing on themselves and fellow students to observing living animals, or using the bodies of animals who have died naturally. The following educators and other professionals have reconciled their beliefs that animal use is an unnecessary part of education by abandoning old lessons and supporting new and innovative methods of teaching science.
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Resources
If you do not want to dissect or if you just want to investigate Animalearn's dissection-related literature, books, and videos that are available to you, please expand your knowledge of animal use in education by checking out our resources.
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How to Support Student Choice
Educators from elementary to university levels are becoming more open to technological teaching or alternative methods of teaching science, biology, and other subjects where live or dead animals are used. Yet there are still many who prefer the traditional methods of slicing up dead specimens. If you care about the welfare of animals and/or you want to guide those students who do not want to participate in dissection laboratories you can take action.
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FAQs
How many animals are dissected every year?
A reasonable estimate is that about six million vertebrate animals are dissected yearly in U.S. high schools alone, with an additional, unknown number used in colleges and middle and elementary schools. The number of invertebrate animals dissected is probably comparable to that of vertebrates.
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A Step By Step Tutorial of Virtual Dissection
Given the number of students who ethically object to dissection, and the growing number of educators who are switching from wet labs to dissection alternatives because of the educational effectiveness they offer, CD-ROM dissection programs have become quite popular. There are hundreds of choices that educator or students have when selecting the right dissection alternative for their classrooms, and Animalearn's The Science Bank free loan program has over 250 of these alternatives available.
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Animalearn Programs & Products
Animalearn provides a whole host of resources for educators, parents, and students at no cost. Our programs are suitable for a variety of educational levels, including K-12, college/university, and veterinary/medical. We offer humane education curricula and educational kits that cover issues ranging from dissection to product testing. Parents, educators, and students can also choose from a large variety of books, brochures, videos, and more, many of which are available for free.
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Laws and Legislation
Dissection choice laws usually apply to kindergarten through high school, and allow students to refuse to participate in classroom exercises-particularly dissections-that involve animals. These laws usually require the school to notify students and/or their parents at the beginning of a course when animal dissection is part of that course. They are intended to allow students the right to choose humane alternatives, without being penalized for doing so.
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The Science Bank
Animalearn operates The Science Bank, our free lending program of alternatives to dissection and other harmful animal usage. The Science Bank was established to lend new, innovative life science software and education products that enable educators and students to try out the most cutting-edge products available, thereby saving animals as well as modernizing and improving teaching methodologies.
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