Animalearn Helps Teachers Start the New Year Right. We are proud to announce that 2016 is the 20th anniversary of Animalearn's free,
alternative to dissection loan program, The
Science Bank. Over the past 20 years, The
Science Bank has grown immensely and is now considered the largest free
loan program in the U.S, with over 650 realistic models, software, and more to
help students learn science at all education levels.
Let's celebrate! As the new year begins, let us help you find new opportunities to make a difference: for your science class, for the animals, and for the environment.
Find out how you can take the leap into humane science and implement innovative, non-animal teaching methods this year, by borrowing non-animal alternatives from The Science Bank.
Animalearn is pleased to announce that its 2015 Humane Educator of the Year is longtime New Jersey science teacher Bonnie Berenger. Animalearn is honoring Berenger because of her dedication to promoting humane science education at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, located in Flemington, New Jersey, for over a decade. Animalearn will present Ms. Berenger with her award at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Area Conference. "We are proud to honor Bonnie Berenger as our Humane Educator of the Year for her dedication to continuously raise awareness about the harmful use of animals in education," said Animalearn Director, Nicole Green. "She is a true change-maker and passionate advocate working on behalf of students and animals."
Since 2000, Ms. Berenger has been working to make a difference for animals used in education, and has utilized Animalearn's resources to help enlighten others about humane science. Bonnie first reached out to Animalearn with the goal of instituting a biology course that did not include dissection. Because of her passion and dedication, Ms. Berenger, along with a colleague, designed a non-dissection biology course, that was later incorporated in the curriculum at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. This pioneering course used a virtual CD program, movies, human plastic models that students could take apart and manipulate, and interactive labs in which students tested human functions, such as heart rates. After a few months, not only did this course win the support of school administrators, but it also quickly became more popular than the traditional biology course at Hunterdon High. In fact, the non-dissection course earned the reputation among students that they could learn more without harming animals. Today, due largely to Berenger's influence, Hunterdon does not include animal dissection in its general biology courses.
"As teachers, we need to go beyond educating. We can also inspire compassion. Guiding students to tap into humanity's innate respect for and dependency on healthy ecosystems can encourage the next generation to be better stewards of the web of life than we have been," stated Berenger.
Ms. Berenger joins an influential list of past Animalearn Humane Educators, who promote and advocate for humane science education initiatives, including:
Download the PDF press release here.
At Animalearn, we work to foster an awareness of and a respect for animals used in education. We strive to eliminate the use of animals in education and we are dedicated to assisting educators and students to find the most effective non-animal methods to teach and study science. Animalearn has created The Science Bank, our lending program of new and innovative life science software and educational products that enable educators and students to learn anatomy, physiology, and psychology lessons without harming animals, themselves, or the Earth. Our loan program has been offering products to thousands of people for over a decade, and it is continually growing and expanding. Animalearn also provides humane education curricula and materials free of charge for educators and students.
Animalearn's Programs Animalearn provides a whole host of resources for educators 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. Educators and students can also choose from a large variety of books, brochures, videos, and more, many of which are available for free. Additionally, our Science Bank is home to the latest in high-tech, animal-friendly educational technology for the classroom.
Animalearn conducts free workshops for educators on how to implement our various programs and products in the classrooms, and we also deliver presentations to students and student organizations who are hoping to use or promote non-animal alternatives in their education. Additionally, Animalearn frequently delivers presentations to classrooms, which serve to foster an awareness of and a respect for animals and others.
Animalearn representatives will work individually with educators or students interested in adopting non-animal alternatives in their classroom. We will also assist students who are interested in creating student choice policies at their schools.
Tell Russia Not to Send Monkeys Into Space!
Let's celebrate! As the new year begins, let us help you find new opportunities to make a difference: for your science class, for the animals, and for the environment.
Find out how you can take the leap into humane science and implement innovative, non-animal teaching methods this year, by borrowing non-animal alternatives from The Science Bank.
Animalearn is pleased to announce that its 2015 Humane Educator of the Year is longtime New Jersey science teacher Bonnie Berenger. Animalearn is honoring Berenger because of her dedication to promoting humane science education at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, located in Flemington, New Jersey, for over a decade. Animalearn will present Ms. Berenger with her award at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Area Conference. "We are proud to honor Bonnie Berenger as our Humane Educator of the Year for her dedication to continuously raise awareness about the harmful use of animals in education," said Animalearn Director, Nicole Green. "She is a true change-maker and passionate advocate working on behalf of students and animals."
Since 2000, Ms. Berenger has been working to make a difference for animals used in education, and has utilized Animalearn's resources to help enlighten others about humane science. Bonnie first reached out to Animalearn with the goal of instituting a biology course that did not include dissection. Because of her passion and dedication, Ms. Berenger, along with a colleague, designed a non-dissection biology course, that was later incorporated in the curriculum at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. This pioneering course used a virtual CD program, movies, human plastic models that students could take apart and manipulate, and interactive labs in which students tested human functions, such as heart rates. After a few months, not only did this course win the support of school administrators, but it also quickly became more popular than the traditional biology course at Hunterdon High. In fact, the non-dissection course earned the reputation among students that they could learn more without harming animals. Today, due largely to Berenger's influence, Hunterdon does not include animal dissection in its general biology courses.
"As teachers, we need to go beyond educating. We can also inspire compassion. Guiding students to tap into humanity's innate respect for and dependency on healthy ecosystems can encourage the next generation to be better stewards of the web of life than we have been," stated Berenger.
Ms. Berenger joins an influential list of past Animalearn Humane Educators, who promote and advocate for humane science education initiatives, including:
- 2013 Recipient - Dr. Regina Milano, Science Teacher at West Haven High School West Haven CT.
- 2012 Recipient - Patty McGinnis, NSTA Middle Level Science Teaching Director and Arcola Intermediate School Eagleville, PA.
- 2011 Recipient - Michelle Galaria, Science Dept. Chair/Biology Teacher at James Logan High School in Union City, CA.
As a part of the award, Animalearn will donate $1,000 worth of dissection alternatives for Berenger to use with Hunterdon students.
Download the PDF press release here.
At Animalearn, we work to foster an awareness of and a respect for animals used in education. We strive to eliminate the use of animals in education and we are dedicated to assisting educators and students to find the most effective non-animal methods to teach and study science. Animalearn has created The Science Bank, our lending program of new and innovative life science software and educational products that enable educators and students to learn anatomy, physiology, and psychology lessons without harming animals, themselves, or the Earth. Our loan program has been offering products to thousands of people for over a decade, and it is continually growing and expanding. Animalearn also provides humane education curricula and materials free of charge for educators and students.
Animalearn's Programs Animalearn provides a whole host of resources for educators 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. Educators and students can also choose from a large variety of books, brochures, videos, and more, many of which are available for free. Additionally, our Science Bank is home to the latest in high-tech, animal-friendly educational technology for the classroom.
Animalearn conducts free workshops for educators on how to implement our various programs and products in the classrooms, and we also deliver presentations to students and student organizations who are hoping to use or promote non-animal alternatives in their education. Additionally, Animalearn frequently delivers presentations to classrooms, which serve to foster an awareness of and a respect for animals and others.
Animalearn representatives will work individually with educators or students interested in adopting non-animal alternatives in their classroom. We will also assist students who are interested in creating student choice policies at their schools.
Tell Russia Not to Send Monkeys Into Space!
Primates are sensitive and intelligent animals, and they're likely to experience extreme distress during the years of tests and training leading up to a mission. And if they're eventually unwillingly sent hurtling through space on what may to be a suicide mission, they'll be terrified and unable to understand what is happening to them.
NASA, the European Space Agency and the Chinese National Space Administration all choose to advance space exploration without using primates. Russia needs to do the same.
Please sign our petition to be delivered to the Russian Embassy, urging the Russian Federal Space Agency to stop this ill-advised mission and send the monkeys to a sanctuary instead.
Please abandon plans to send four rhesus macaque monkeys to Mars in 2017, and let them live out the rest of their lives at a sanctuary instead.Animals aren't astronauts and, unlike human volunteers, cannot give their consent to risking their lives on a mission into the unknown. These intelligent, sensitive primates would suffer immensely during the years of stressful tests and training--as well as if they're launched on a terrifying and, to them, incomprehensible voyage from which they're unlikely to return.Other pioneering space agencies use high-tech 21st-century technology, rather than conducting archaic experiments on primates. We urge you to do the same.
Despite the availability of humane and educationally superior human-patient simulators, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) continues to cut holes into the throats, chests and limbs of live animals in a surgical training course called Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST), which is offered across Australia and New Zealand. This course is part of an internationally offered training program, and most other countries that teach it have switched to using the popular TraumaMan and other high-tech human simulators. These simulators have been approved since 2001 as a full replacement for the use of animals in the course. Some EMST courses in Australia are already using simulation instead of animals, but most are lagging behind.
Unlike animals, realistic simulators accurately replicate human anatomy and physiology and are reusable and shareable. They are also more cost-effective than using animals. Military and civilian studies have found that these methods better equip trainees with the surgical skills and psychological preparedness necessary to treat traumatic injuries.
The simulators for this training are so effective that the U.S. military recently banned the use of animals in its equivalent of EMST, stating that "suitable simulation alternatives can replace the use of live animals." Australia's assistant minister for defense promised that the military would also stop using animals in EMST training as soon as RACS, which offers the training, switches to non-animal training methods.
Continuing to mutilate and kill animals for these trauma training courses is extremely cruel and archaic as well as a breach of the National Health and Medical Research Council's guidelines, which state that "[t]raining methods which do not use animals must be adopted wherever possible."
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