Resources For Education

To Promote Respect, Understanding and Compassion
for Humans, Animals and the Environment

Good news for teachers! Farm Sanctuary's Cultivating Compassion program makes it even easier for caring teachers to bring compassion to their classrooms. In an increasingly violent world in which making profits often takes precedence over seeking peace, Farm Sanctuary's Cultivating Compassion program offers materials designed to encourage respect and kindness toward all living beings and the environment. Farm Sanctuary is pleased to provide these resources FREE to teachers.

Cultivating Compassion: Teachers' Guide and Student Activities
Guides offers lesson plans, hand-outs, and activities for teaching that farmed animals have feelings, too. Elementary (grades 3-5), Intermediate (grades 6-8), and Secondary (grades 9-12) Levels available.

Additional Farm Sanctuary informational literature, including “Factory Farming: Destroying the Environment,” “How We Treat the Animals We Eat" and “Vegetarian Diets for Kids" brochures, is available. Although these brochures are not designed for children specifically, they are appropriate for students in grades 9-12.

Our 25th Anniversary Year in Review

Our 25th Anniversary year was full of amazing milestones and accomplishments: a new hospital, a third sanctuary, and hundreds of animals living happily in peace, now safe from harm. Please enjoy this slideshow that highlights some of the best moments of 2011, made possible by the generosity and kindness of our members and supporters. View the slideshow here.

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Check out our new Vegan Cupcake Apron!

Meet one of Farm Sanctuary's Animal Acres' newest residents.