Nestled in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York, the rolling green pastures of Farm Sanctuary’s 275-acre New York Sanctuary are home to more than 400 rescued farm animals.
Our 39-acre Southern California Sanctuary — home to approximately 100 rescued farm animals — is located on a beautiful hacienda ranch in Acton, just 45 minutes from Hollywood.
Recognizing that today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders — in business, education, government, social justice activism, and all spheres of public life — Farm Sanctuary is educating young hearts and minds about our modern food system. The natural sense of compassion that many youth possess for animals, combined with critical thinking skills and knowledge of our food system, is a powerful force for positive change. Studies have also shown that humane education has benefits for academic performance as well as student health and development.
Farm Sanctuary provides free, engaging webinars that include standards based activities as well as pre-recorded presentations created by our humane educators. We also offer free downloadable curricula for teachers, girl scout troops, and parents that meet national teaching standards.
Register for a webinar or request a pre-recorded presentation now for the 2025-2026 school year!
Monthly Live Webinars for K-12 Classrooms
Farm Sanctuary’s humane educators are excited to offer monthly virtual webinar presentations for K-5 and 6-12 classrooms, which will take place throughout the 2025-26 school year! Webinars include grade level appropriate, standards based activities for before and after the presentation.
Our free, downloadable curricula offers engaging, standards aligned lessons for all grade levels. Middle and high school science students explore solutions for a sustainable future. Visual arts lessons in elementary through high school encourage creativity and empathy while building awareness. And elementary students are invited to discover the lives of farm animals and recognize their unique personalities and needs. These resources support educators in fostering compassion, critical thinking, and a more just world for all beings.
For youth ages 13-18 who are interested in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate food system, Farm Sanctuary’s online resource hub, Youth for a Just and Sustainable Food System, offers tools and inspiration, and our Youth Leadership Council provides a sense of community and the chance to connect with like-minded student peers from across the country. Through the Youth Leadership Council, we offer education on food system issues and support for school- and community-based advocacy projects aligned with each student’s personal interest.
Farm Sanctuary offers a library of free, pre-recorded presentations about the lives of farm animals and issues of our food system for Pre-K to college educators. Recordings include differentiated activities for students of all ages including sing along songs, worksheets, discussion questions, writing prompts, and more!
Animal Tales: Learn About the Animals of Farm Sanctuary
30 minutes
Farm Sanctuary’s humane educators introduce students to the animals who live at Farm Sanctuary. Students learn how to draw a farm animal and find out what animals need to be happy and healthy.
Sustainable Future: For Earth, Animals, and Community
30 minutes
Farm Sanctuary’s humane educators explore the environmental impacts of our modern food system and students join in drawing a positive vision for a more compassionate and sustainable future.
Exploring Our Food System With the Animals of Farm Sanctuary
40 minutes
This presentation shares the stories of Farm Sanctuary residents, the realities of our modern food system for animals, humans, and the planet, and how plant-based food choices and reducing consumption of animal products can lessen our impact. (Unique versions available for grades 5-6 and grades 7-12.)
This presentation introduces students to the relationship of animal agriculture to climate change, deforestation, water use, and community health, and how increasing plant-based food choices can reduce our environmental “foodprint.”
Examining the impacts of our food system on workers, communities, animals, and the planet, this presentation offers a social justice lens for understanding how these issues are interrelated and rooted in systemic injustice. (For grades 7-12.)
Essential Farmworkers and Conscious Food Movements
60 minutes
Jointly hosted by the Alliance for Fair Food (AFF), Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), and Farm Sanctuary, this presentation explores the relationship between farmworker issues and conscious food movements, with a goal of inspiring solidarity with farmworkers and coalition-based advocacy.
Transforming Our Food System: From Exploitation to Sanctuary
60 minutes
This presentation examines our food system’s impacts on workers, communities, animals, and the planet and how these issues are interrelated and rooted in systemic injustice. Students learn how animals come to live at Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s first farm animal rescue organization, and about meaningful ways to create a more just, compassionate, and sustainable food system for all.
Come meet the animals of Farm Sanctuary and learn about our work in animal rescue! Students will meet rescued cows, sheep, pigs, goats, and chickens who live at our sanctuary in Upstate New York. They will learn about their unique personalities and how their lives at sanctuary are filled with love, care, and enrichment. Students will also learn about how our food system affects animals, humans, and our planet in an age-appropriate way. This video is primarily designed for grades K-4, but students of all ages are welcome to enjoy our virtual tour!
