Science for Public Understanding

The Nuffield Foundation

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Activities

 

Title

Content

Starter 1

What animals?

Explores the types and number of animals used in research.

Starter 2

What do we know?

Students question what they know from an image of an animal.

Activity 3

What is research?

Explores the purpose of different types of research.

Activity 4

Are animal experiments painful?

Investigates the levels of severity of procedures and how they are counted.

Activity 5

Reducing the impact

Looks at the application of reduction, refinement and replacement.

Activity 6

What are the motives?

Students explore websites using a guidance sheet to work out the motives of organisations.

Activity 7

Putting on the pressure

Students watch video clips showing different perspectives to look at the rights and wrongs of protest and how individuals and groups can influence government decision making.

Plenary 8

What do people think?

Students compare and evaluate four perspectives, ranging from ‘Anything goes’ to the ‘Abolitionist’.

Plenary 9

The role of the law

Students consider whether the law is effective in protecting animals and researchers.

Assessment 10

Active citizenship

Students develop a campaign or presentation to inform a particular audience of the issues.