Animals Helping Animals
The Partners in Research Grade School
Curriculum is an exploration into medical and veterinary research.
Animals Helping Animals was
developed by Partners in Research to provide information to elementary school
students (grades 3-5) and teachers about the care of pets and the importance of
veterinary medicine. Each story focuses on an animal that has proved essential
to the understanding of health issues of both humans and animals, and includes
dogs, cats, rabbits, and cows.
Animals Helping Animals is an educational tool designed to
provide information about veterinary and biomedical research, in both historical
and contemporary contexts. We hope that it will be used as a source of facts,
and as a springboard for further inquiry into proper pet care and the importance
and methods of scientific discovery.
The goals of Animals Helping Animals are to stimulate
interest, knowledge and understanding of scientific discovery through
interesting and fun stories and activities. Material in this package may be
photocopied so each student has their own copy. The stories promote reading
comprehension and accompanying activities promote understanding of each story
topic.
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