Comparing Cruelty - Classroom Resources

Created by Voiceless, the animal protection institute, Animal Protection Education (APE) resources provide students and teachers with the information they need to understand how animal cruelty can be measured and compared between countries around the world.

In these lessons, students will use the Voiceless Animal Cruelty Index (VACI) to question, consider and discuss how animal cruelty is produced, consumed and sanctioned in 50 countries. Through this online, interactive index, students will compare the statistics and rankings given to individual countries and will use this information to think critically about what constitutes animal cruelty.

With all the resources linked to the Australian Curriculum, teachers from a range of subjects are able to educate high school students in Years 9-10.

Accompanying resources include:

• Video with accompanying transcript;
• 3x Lesson plans for Geography, Civics and Design and Technology;
• Student worksheets with accompanying activities;
• Glossary and Quiz;
• Animal Protection Encyclopedia.

Access the other resources for the Voiceless Comparing Cruelty APE here.

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This Australian Curriculum alignment statement is based on the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) materials, which are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The material has been modified from the Australian Curriculum website (accessed January 2020).

All activities have been created by educators for educators and are linked to the Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4). We advise teachers to consult the ACARA website for the most up-to-date curriculum outcomes.