Animal Testing & Clinical Research LESSON

by Dynamic Earth Learning

Price: 400 points or $4 USD

Subjects: healthPhysEd,healthScience,stem,science,developingPossibleSolutions,humanImpactsOnEarthSystems,lifeScience

Grades: 5,6,7,8

Description: Embedded video lesson on first slide! Then students answer 30 questions. This lesson explains that animals are used in preclinical research to determine the effectiveness and safety of new drugs and treatments for diseases before they are tested in humans. Ethical considerations are also discussed, including the need to minimize harm to animals and to use the most appropriate species for each study. The lesson also explains how animal testing is regulated by various laws and regulations in the United States.