Mia Explores Science • Book 3
Mia Visits the DNA Lab
Mia visits a friendly DNA lab and discovers tubes, pipettes, careful labels, and strawberry DNA floating like tiny clouds.
Created for curious young readers, family read-aloud time, early STEM learning, preschool, kindergarten, and gentle science conversations at home.
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Inside this book:
Full-color picture book • Gentle DNA science • Ages 4–8 • Free drawing activity included • Created by a scientist mom
A First DNA Story for Kids Ages 4–8
What children discover
Mia is visiting a real DNA lab! With Dr. Lina as her guide, she sees tiny tubes, blue gloves, careful labels, calm hands, and a strawberry DNA experiment. The lab feels mysterious at first, but soon Mia discovers that science is a careful, curious way to ask questions about the tiny codes inside living things.
Visit a friendly lab
Children learn what a DNA lab is, why scientists use labels and gloves, and how a simple strawberry DNA activity can reveal a tiny code.
A reassuring lab adventure that makes real science feel safe, organized, and full of questions.
Mia visits a friendly DNA lab and discovers tubes, pipettes, careful labels, and strawberry DNA floating like tiny clouds.
Try a safe experiment
See DNA with wonder
Ready to read the full story?
A gentle dna lab picture book for curious kids ages 4–8.
Free bonus for readers
Draw & Explore: Draw Your Tiny Code
Download the free Draw Your Tiny Code activity to help children explore DNA as tiny instructions inside their cells through drawing, reflection, and conversation. Children can notice family traits, create their own colorful “tiny code,” and celebrate what makes them wonderfully unique.
For parents, teachers, and curious kids
Big science ideas can begin with small questions, warm stories, and a child who feels safe enough to wonder.
Dr. Biol Ilze Radovica-Spalvina
Author, Scientist & Mom
More Mia science adventures
Continue exploring with Mia
Continue Mia’s science journey with gentle stories about dna and identity, family resemblance and inherited traits, and microbes and everyday tiny life. Each companion adventure keeps big ideas warm, visual, and child-friendly.
The Tiny Code Inside Me
Why Do I Look Like My Family?
Mia Discovers Microbes
A warm first DNA story about Mia discovering the tiny code inside her — and learning that DNA is only part of her story.
Mia notices that she looks like her family and learns how DNA can carry tiny instructions from parents to children.
Mia discovers that microbes are tiny, varied, and interesting — not all scary, and not all bad.
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