Virtual School Blues? PETA Business Friends Are Helping Students and Animals

This year has been a doozy. If the stress of the pandemic along with juggling at-home school for the kids and work is taking a toll on your family, PETA’s friends at Y3K Tutor In Your Home can help. The best part is that by helping your students, you’ll be helping animals, too.

Y3K Tutor In Your Home offers help over Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, and even WhatsApp. Tutors who specialize in all subject areas work with students who are struggling with online learning, gifted students who need a more advanced curriculum, those with special learning needs, and those who are prepping for exams, including the SAT, ACT, and GED. All ages, from preschoolers to adults, receive one-on-one attention tailored to their needs, including everything from motivation to study skills.

Since Y3K Tutor In Your Home is also a PETA Business Friend, part of every dollar you spend goes to helping animals. You can try it out with 25% off your first tutoring session by using coupon code “PETA.”

 


Challenging Assumptions: A Social Justice Curriculum

Empower kids in grades 9–12 to challenge normalized prejudice and inspire their understanding of others regardless of species, race, gender, sexual identity, age, or ability with TeachKind’s engaging, eye-opening Challenging Assumptions program. This free collection of videos, images, activities, and reading material examines the intersection of many forms of discrimination, including how they started, why they persist, and what we can all do to bring about positive change.

“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.”

—Bradley Miller


Make Dissection Digital! Hands-On Science Lessons  

TeachKind has brought numerous digital dissection tools together in one convenient place with the Make Dissection Digital! online resource center. Having children cut open an animal teaches them to treat living beings like disposable equipment, and it funds companies that breed these animals or capture them in their natural habitat before killing them in painful and terrifying ways. In response, kind, modern organizations—including Expandable Mind Software, Merge Labs, Digital Frog International, and Cogent Education—are making astoundingly lifelike digital alternatives that are perfect for virtual learning or the classroom.

These tools don’t put kids at risk from handling dangerous chemicals, are reusable, and never require that students check their morals at the door. TeachKind has also provided a handy tool for finding out what your state’s laws are regarding dissection choice, as many states require that schools offer humane alternatives for students with ethical objections to dissection.

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For a wealth of other free, easy-to-use activities, debate kits, lesson plans, and other resources, check out PETA’s humane education division, TeachKind.