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The Body Walk Experience Students tour the human body with The OrganWise Guys as their guides. Throughout the exhibit, they will learn how to apply healthy lifestyle choices. At each of Body Walk's ten stations, a volunteer presenter engages the students in a five-minute activity focused on healthy choices.
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The tour begins when students, in groups of six to eight, walk through a giant ear into the brain. Inside the huge brain dome, students experience “brain waves” and learn about brain function. After they leave the brain, the students are each given a bookmark designating them as a food, such as a carrot, hamburger 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 are “absorbed” into the blood. Then they follow the path of the nutrients to the heart, lung, bone, muscle and skin stations. Students leave the body through a cut in the skin and proceed through The OrganWise Guys’ Pathway for Life. This final station recaps key health concepts from each of the nine previous stations. 