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AE Grant Showcase 2024: Motivational Empathy through Playful Connections with Zoo Animals

Lake Superior Zoo

February 2024

Advancing Empathy Grant Program

Lake Superior Zoo

This resource was funded by the Advancing Empathy Grant Program.

Sarah Wilcox presents on their project: Inspiring Motivational Empathy through Playful Connections with Zoo Animals. This grant project developed a new play space near a red panda exhibit that highlighted the power of parallel play and allowed young children to learn empathetic connections to LSZ’s resident red panda.

Playful Connections with Nature Recording LSZ PowerPoint Observation Sheet Stakeholder Survey

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  • early childhood programming
  • grant

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