Animal Exploration Lab for Kids 52 Family-Friendly Activities for Learning about the Amazing Animal Kingdom

• Explore the techniques that researchers use to study animals
• Investigate the adaptations and behaviors that make animals so unique
• Study how animals sense and respond to the world around them
• Discover new ways to support and conserve your amazing animal neighbors

• Safety Tips & Helpful Hints provides additional guidelines and insights for successfully conducting each lab.
• Procedure provides details about the individual steps in each lab so you’ll know just what to do.
• Creative Enrichment helps you think about how to take your experiment even further.
• The Science Behind the Fun provides a simple description of the science that supports the lab and other background information.

Maggie Reinbold is Director of Community Engagement at San Diego Zoo Global, heading up a dynamic team dedicated to designing and implementing programs that connect communities to conservation for the benefit of wildlife and habitats. She is also an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Department of Biology at Miami University, where she teaches the Earth Expedition to the Big Island of Hawaii. Maggie earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Biology at San Diego State University, with a focus on the population genetics of desert aquatic insects across the Baja California Peninsula. She has taught science in a number of formal and informal settings, including the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Natural History Museum, Cardiff Elementary School, and San Diego State University. As an National Science Foundation science fellow, she co-taught hands-on science with classroom teachers across San Diego County and also spent several seasons in Arctic Alaska, bringing hands-on science education to unique and underserved communities on the North Slope. She is the co-author of Drawing Wild Animals and author of Animal Exploration Lab for Kids. She lives in Poway, California.