Friday, May 4, 2007

Resources for Animal Use in University Courses

By Nicole Duffee, DVM, PhD
Director, AALAS Education & Scientific Affairs

The following resources, although aimed at pre-college education levels, may be useful for a college biology 101 course.

ILAR has guideline principles in the use of animals in education, and AALAS recognized these ILAR principles in a postion statement with the addition of recommendations and links to other resources.

Use of Animals in Precollege Education
PDF version -
http://www.aalas.org/pdf/precollege_education.pdf
HTML version -
http://www.aalas.org/association/position_statements.asp#Precollege

There are also a series of Fact Sheets on animal care (specific species and animal groups) and key issues (allergies, pain and distress) which are downloadable as PDFs at:
http://www.kids4research.org/publications/caring_for_animals.htm

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