Classroom

What’s Included

Designed especially for young learners, preschool visits use stories, movement, discussion, and hands-on activities to teach children how to be kind, safe, and compassionate around animals. Visits are typically around 45 minutes.

During the visit, students explore:

• Animal safety: Learn simple ways to stay safe around pets and unfamiliar animals, including basic animal body language and when an animal may need space.
• Community helpers: Meet the people who help animals in our community, including animal care professionals and Humane Animal Care & Control officers.
• Stray animal safety: Practice what to do if they see a lost or unfamiliar animal.
• Responsible pet care: Explore pets’ basic needs, including food, water, shelter, exercise, veterinary care, and kindness.

All visits include: 

K–6 visits inspire curiosity, compassion, and responsible decision-making while helping students understand animals and their community. Visits typically last one hour and can be adapted for individual classrooms or larger groups.

During the visit, students will:

• Learn about the Idaho Humane Society: Discover how we help animals and people through animal care, adoptions, education, and outreach.
• Explore animal safety: Build practical skills for staying safe around pets and unfamiliar animals.
• Help animals in everyday ways: Identify simple actions students can take at home, at school, and in the community.
• Connect compassion to real life: Reflect on kindness, empathy, responsibility, and respect for animals and people.

What Teachers Can Expect

Presentations are interactive, engaging, and tailored to your students’ age and interests. We encourage participation through questions and discussion. If an animal ambassador joins the visit, all interactions are supervised to create a positive experience for students and animals.

Optional Service Project

Students can extend the lesson by organizing a pet food drive to support local pets and families. Donations can be collected at school and picked up during our visit.

Thank you for helping students grow compassion, empathy, and lifelong respect for animals.

All visits include: 

Middle and high school visits invite students to explore animal welfare through leadership, service, advocacy, and career connections. Presentations are interactive, discussion-based, and tailored to your students’ interests and goals.

During the visit, students will:

• Learn about the Idaho Humane Society: Explore how we serve animals and people through animal care, adoptions, veterinary services, education, and outreach.
• Find ways to get involved: Learn about volunteer opportunities, service projects, youth programs, and other ways to make an impact.
• Build leadership skills: Discuss how compassion, responsibility, and advocacy can become powerful forms of leadership.
• Explore animal welfare careers: Learn about career paths in veterinary care, animal shelters, animal behavior, humane education, and Humane Animal Care & Control.
• Connect humane values to real life: Examine issues affecting animals and communities while building empathy, critical thinking, and responsible decision-making skills.

What Teachers Can Expect

Visits are flexible and designed to spark meaningful discussion. Presentations can align with classroom goals, service-learning projects, leadership programs, or career exploration. When appropriate, an animal ambassador may join the visit to help students connect the lesson to real-world animal welfare work.

Optional Service Project

Turn learning into action with a pet food drive that supports pets and families in our community. Donations can be collected at school and picked up during our visit.

Thank you for helping students become compassionate leaders, engaged community members, and advocates for animals.

Unfortunately, we are no longer offering this program. However, we would still love to welcome your classroom to the Idaho Humane Society for educational visits and other tours. We appreciate your interest in connecting students with animal welfare and look forward to finding other ways to provide meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities.

Questions? Please contact us 208-377-1716 or education@idahohumanesociety.org