Body Venture

What an amazing experience! We had the opportunity to walk through the "human body" and learn about how different body systems work together. In each part of the body, a parent volunteer talked to us about nutrition, exercise and making healthy choices. They told us how those healthy choices can affect our bodies and our health.

Here we begin by entering the brain through the ear!



We learned that in order for our muscles to be strong and to keep from having too much fat in our bodies we must exercise regularly and eat foods with protein. Protein is the nutrient that makes our muscles grow and develop.



While in the lungs, we had the opportunity to see what a real, healthy lung looks like. It was full and pink. We also saw what the lung of a smoker looks like. It was gray, black and shriveled - YUCK! We all decided that we did NOT want our lungs looking like that one. To demonstrate what emphysema is like, we were given coffee straws and told to hold our noses. Breathing through that little straw was not easy. We learned that breathing could be THAT hard for someone with emphysema.



We learned that digestion of food actually begins in the mouth. The teeth chew the food to break it down and the saliva begin to break the food down even farther. We need to take good care of our teeth so that they will last throughout our lives.