Nationally developed Resources and Programs
From Nose to Tail
Award-winning program featuring free lesson plans and suggested books for elementary school-age children. They focus on puppy mills and preventing harm to dogs.
Maddie's Tail Wag Activity Book
Maddie's® Tail Wag is a free downloadable collection of activities and coloring pages for animal lovers of all ages, now available for two different age groups! Children 6 & Under and kids 7 - 10 can color and learn to their hearts content. Available in English and Spanish.
Share the World Kit
The Share the World kit is perfect for helping elementary school students develop social-emotional skills as well as teaching them about the Golden Rule and the importance of compassion and empathy.
The Heart Library
The Heart Library offers free humane education resource guides. They provide lesson plans, worksheets, and everything you need to teach students ages 3-18 to be caring and compassionate toward animals, people, and our planet, while meeting academic standards.
Lessons and Activities for Pre-K to 12 Students
The Heart Library's free humane education resource guides provide lesson plans, worksheets, and everything needed to teach students ages 3-18 to be caring and compassionate toward animals, people, and our planet, while meeting academic standards.
Project Chimps has educational resources that you can use in the classroom or at home.
Lathum Video guide
A collection of classic videos dating back to the 1950s promoting the humane animal bond.
The Science Bank
This is a FREE loan program for cutting-edge science models including frogs, cats, brains, and more from all age groups including college. These are wonderful for anatomy classes.
Dog Safety For Children
Wonderful video of British dog sharing safety tips when interacting with dogs.
Educated Choices Program Library
Free lesson plans, videos, quizzes and discussion prompts for high school classrooms providing vital information about the impact of food choices on human health, the enviornment, and animals. Available in a variety of languages.
Roots & Shoots (Jane Goodall)
The mission of Roots & Shoots is to empower young people to affect positive change in their communities.
Careers to Help Animals *
*This is a unique program created by Georgia Center for humane education.
Learn all about the various ways you can build a career to help animals. Download the document for Career Day.
Organizations Providing Training to Become a Humane Educator
Resources to benefit companion animals in Georgia - a living document updated regularly.
"To educate our people, and especially our children, to humane attitudes and actions toward living things is to preserve and strengthen our national heritage and the moral values we champion in the world."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States
