RSPCA South Australia has developed a series of resources aimed at educating young people about animal welfare to help them develop responsible and caring behaviour toward animals, preventing animal cruelty and neglect in the long-term.

RSPCA AWARE (Animal Wellbeing: Awareness, Responsibility and Education) provides resources for educators, students and parents. These resources help young people develop knowledge, skills and understandings around improving the welfare of all animals, be they companions, farmed or wild animals.

On offer are well established and extensive online curriculum-linked resources which are presented in Year levels and then subject areas as well as cross-curricula Units of Learning.

Best of all, the program is free!

There is a Teacher Portal (requires registration) and a Kids Portal (no registration required)    

A tour of one of the RSPCA shelters could also be arranged to consolidate the key messages. Shelters are at Lonsdale, Whyalla and Port Lincoln.