Activities
| Title | Content |
What animals? | Explores the types and number of animals used in research. | |
What do we know? | Students question what they know from an image of an animal. | |
What is research? | Explores the purpose of different types of research. | |
Are animal experiments painful? | Investigates the levels of severity of procedures and how they are counted. | |
Reducing the impact | Looks at the application of reduction, refinement and replacement. | |
What are the motives? | Students explore websites using a guidance sheet to work out the motives of organisations. | |
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. | |
What do people think? | Students compare and evaluate four perspectives, ranging from ‘Anything goes’ to the ‘Abolitionist’. | |
The role of the law | Students consider whether the law is effective in protecting animals and researchers. | |
Active citizenship | Students develop a campaign or presentation to inform a particular audience of the issues. |