TeachKind: Free Resources to Help Children Continue Learning at Home
If your child’s school is closed due to the coronavirus, these learning activities can help keep them busy while promoting compassion to animals.
As schools across the country close due to COVID-19, TeachKind - PETA’s humane education division - is encouraging parents to take advantage of their free educational resources.
To help promote compassion for animals, TeachKind provides free online activities, lesson plans, and educational resources for children of all ages.
“Schools may be closed, but kids’ minds are still wide open, and they can keep on learning how to be good citizens at home, with PETA and TeachKind here to help,” says PETA Director of Student Campaigns and Influence Rachelle Owen. “With our worksheets, writing prompts, videos, and games, students can stay busy and hone their reading and writing skills while learning to have compassion and empathy for others.”
From comprehension exercises, writing prompts, and pronoun posters to comic books, games, and online videos, TeachKind’s resources educate students while helping to build empathy for all beings.
By using TeachKind’s helpful filter, parents can choose the grade - elementary, middle, or high school - and the category - everything from social justice to factory farming - to find the activities and resources suitable for their children.
Here are some of our favorites to get you started:
See animals in their habitats from your very own home: These animal-friendly virtual field trips make it possible for you to observe animals hanging out by watering holes in Africa and exploring the Arctic tundra—all in real time and without leaving your home or disrupting wildlife. Live videos help kids see what life is like for wild animals living on their own terms, not ours.
Free reading comprehension exercises for kids in grades K–12
Posters which prompt a discussion about animal-friendly idioms, like “feed two birds with one scone,”
Heartwarming rescue stories, and thought-provoking worksheets, tell a different animal’s tale of transformation each month and feature key vocabulary words and questions
The “Share the World” program, which includes an online video, helps even the youngest learners develop empathy for animals.
PETA Kids offers fun activities—including comic books, games, and videos—for kids under 12.
Animal-free dissection lessons. Virtual dissection company eMind is also giving a 25% discount on its fantastic virtual tools with discount code “PETA.”
Species Unite
A collection of stories of those who fight the good fight on behalf of animals.