MSMR works with teachers to bring speakers to class to discuss science, research, risk, and animal care in ways appropriate to elementary school students. If you’d like to know more about our Science Beat program, including laboratory visits, e-mail us here. Tell us your name, the school, town and grade, your phone number and the best time to get in touch with you. The Science Beat program is open to all schools in Massachusetts.

For upper-level elementary and middle school students, our Casey’s Awakening© storybook takes its characters – a classroom of students – on a tour of a laboratory animal facility. Written by Dawn Conover of New York NY and modeled after the Society’s Science Beat program, the Casey’s Awakening story openly portrays a real-life animal facility through hand-drawn illustration and black-and-white photos. Aside from its use in classrooms across the country, Casey’s Awakening has become an invaluable tool for employees at MSMR member organizations and elsewhere to introduce their children and their children’s friends to the lifesaving work that they do. To learn more about Casey’s Awakening©, click here.

Communicating Science & Medicine to Children is a curriculum resource and speaker kit for addressing young children about biomedical science. The package includes background information, lesson plans and a set of cartoon slides. To learn more about this resource, click here. To view it on-line, courtesy of the University of Montana, click here.

HEADS ON! For Healthy Living is MSMR’s 90-page guide to critical and creative thinking activities on health and science topics. The guide’s topics are meant to accompany the People and Animals: United for Health calendar, but it may also be used as a stand-alone piece as a corollary to many health and science curricula. To learn more, click here. To download the entire HEADS ON! file using Adobe Acrobat®, click here. And for the HEADS ON! guide to critical and creative thinking, click here.

Other materials for elementary school teachers and students are listed in our on-line Catalog – Outreach Programs and Educational Materials. Most programs and materials are free in single copies to Massachusetts teachers.
To go to the Catalog, click here.