HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson USD 308 third-grade students will go through the Body Venture on Tuesday, Dec. 10. Classes of students will go through the learning exhibit from 8:10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at McCandless Elementary School.
Body Venture is an enclosed walk-through exhibit representing the human body. At each of Body Venture's 11 learning stations, a volunteer presenter engages the students in an experiential and educational activity focused on healthy choices. HHS students will help make the presentations.
The tour begins in the Body Venture lunchroom when students, in groups of eight to 10, receive a food tag designating them as a “food” such as a carrot, lean beef or piece of cheese. The "foods" step into the exhibit's larger-than-life mouth, are "swallowed" through the esophagus tunnel and move into the stomach dome. From the stomach, the students travel through the small intestine where they become nutrients and are absorbed into the blood. The nutrients then travel through the heart, lungs, bones, muscles and skin stations. Students leave the body through a cut in the skin and proceed through Power Panther’s Pathway to Life, which recaps key health concepts from each of the 10 previous stations.
It takes each group of students about an hour to complete the Body Venture experience.