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Resources & ArchivesNext of Kin curriculum being piloted to middle school students across U.S.(Winter 2001)— Rachel Fouts-Carrico, daughter of famed co-founders of the Chimpanzee and Human Communications Institute in Ellensburg, WA, Dr. Roger and Deborah Fouts, is heading up the curriculum project and reports that the first stages of piloting the program are underway and that feedback has been positive. The teachers, who received the 250-page curriculum in November 2000, have until the end of March 2001 to review lessons and return a detailed evaluation. Fouts-Carrico will then put the "finishing touches" on the CD-ROM and paper curriculum. Fouts-Carrico hopes to have the program ready to be implemented in schools' frameworks by summer 2001. NEAVS' commitment to this important project will bring the anti-vivisection message into the lower and middle grades where the foundation for one's values and behavior about what it means to learn from "another" species is built. Next of Kin offers students, K - 12, the opportunity to learn first-hand about the uniqueness of individual animals whom others often regard as mere research tools. Fouts-Carrico will also hold a 10-hour workshop at Central Washington University with continuing education credit for teachers. This workshop will be designed to help build or strengthen a foundation for teachers who are planning on integrating the Next of Kin curriculum into their classrooms. Next of Kin is yet another venue through which NEAVS continues to teach about cruelty-free science. If you know of middle or elementary school science teachers interested in finding out more about the new curriculum, please contact NEAVS
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Teachers on the east and west coasts are currently piloting the
first middle-school version of "Next of Kin," a compassionate curriculum
for teaching ethical science (See "Learning Kindness One Species
at A Time," UPDATE, Summer 2000).
