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School Manual - Stations - Scheduling Information - School Responsibilities - 2007-2008 School Schedule - Classroom Activities - Teacher Resources - Scheduling Packet - Set Up Information
Link to Body Walk Powerpoint Presentation
What is Body Walk?
Body Walk is a unique, educational program for kindergarten through fourth-grade students. Children learn about the importance of good nutrition and other healthy lifestyle choices through entertaining, experiential activities. Body Walk is an effective resource to support and enhance the efforts of elementary school teachers as they help students learn how their bodies work and how to keep them healthy.
What happens in Body Walk?
At each of Body Walk's ten stations, a volunteer presenter engages the students in a five-minute activity focused on healthy choices. The tour begins when students, in groups of eight to ten, 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 tag designating them as a food, such as a carrot, hamburger or piece of cheese as they prepare to enter the 40' x 40' Body Walk exhibit. The "foods" step into the exhibit's larger-than-life mouth and then 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, lungs, bones, muscles and skin stations. Students leave the body through a cut in the skin and proceed through Pathway to Life. This final station recaps key health concepts from each of the nine previous stations.
For a tour of the ten stations, click each body part below.
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How does a school prepare for a Body Walk visit?
Prior to the arrival of Body Walk, the school designates a contact who coordinates all activities and ensures that volunteers are available to staff each of the ten stations and to assist with setting up and taking down the exhibit. The school manual is available here. An email is sent to the school contact prior to the Body Walk exhibit arrival reminding them to prepare for the visit by following the manual instructions. The manual provides a media plan, presenters' scripts, classroom and home activities, educational resources and an evaluation.
Click this link to see how your school can experience Body Walk.
With the Body Walk Program renovations complete, it is now time to schedule for the 2007-2008 school year. Applications for using the program and exhibit will be taken beginning May 1, 2007 and continue through June 1, 2007. For scheduling information and application click here. For scheduling information and application click here. If you have questions concerning the program, please contact the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health at 573-751-0915.
To find out how Body Walk is funded, click this link.
For a listing of sponsors and supporters, click here.
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