
that it engages children, signals the start of your story time, and prepares them to. With its 'Build Your Wild Self' avatar machine, visitors of all ages can create their own human-animal hybrid, with the ability to tack on more disparate body parts than a duckbill platypus. Or, if you want to stay in NY, visit the Aquarium or the Staten Island Zoo. The Bronx Zoo and Deutsch New York have launched a new interactive Web site for kids called Build Your Wild Self, in which children are encouraged to create avatars of themselves. You will see 10X as many animals right in front of you, at SIX FLAGS in Jackson, NJ. You don’t even have to leave the couch to see what these zoos, aquariums and science centers have to offer Of course, after you’re done, you might want to go out and do a little exploring of your own.


5 senses (11) absorption (7) adaptations (27) air (27) amphibians (3) anatomy (1) animals (39) arachnids (2) atoms (1) biodiversity (11) birds (4) building (27) camouflage (1) chemistry (31) clouds (5) cohesion (1) color science (17) colors (13) density (7) deposition (4) dinosaurs (6) ecosystem (9) electricity (2) engineering (38) erosion (10) food science (43) food web (7) force (16) fossils (7) friction (9) geology/rocks and minerals (23) glaciers (1) glow (5) gravity (6) habitat (18) heat (13) insects (16) insulators + conductors (7) levers (4) life cycle (1) light (9) living vs. Build Your Wild Self Site at the New York Zoos and Aquarium site. There are certainly many more informative places to take your kids, for far less money too.
