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Have a Heart
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Your heart pumps blood throughout your body in one direction, around in a loop. In this activity, learners will make a model of one type of heart chamber called a ventricle.

Space Stations: Bones of Contention
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In this activity, learners make models representing bones on Earth and bones that have been in space. They discover what happens to bones without proper exercise and nutrition.

Space Stations: Sponge Spool Spine
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In this activity, learners simulate what happens to a human spine in space by making Sponge Spool Spines (alternating sponge pieces and spools threaded on a pipe cleaner).
Pollution and Lung Health
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Learners will build a lung model to understand how their lungs and diaphragm work to make them breathe.

Living Bones, Strong Bones
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In this activity about engineering, nutrition, and physical activity, learners design and build a healthy bone model of a space explorer which is strong enough to withstand increasing amounts of weigh

Germ Tag
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In this version of tag, a large group of learners model how the body fights infection. Learners act as germs, as lymphocytes, and as the body's cells threatened by germs.

Wash Away Germs
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Many germs spread by our hands, and often times, people don't wash their hands well enough to get rid of germs.

Inside Out
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Learners draw and cut out shapes of organs from construction paper. Then they attach these organs to the body of one learner to make a life-sized map of all the internal organs.

Dance Diagram
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Teams of learners use a series of stick figures made from pipe cleaners to model a dance routine. Then, they use this model to communicate to another learner who performs the dance routine.

Respiration Relay
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In this physical activity, groups of learners act as blood cells traveling through the circulatory system.

What's in Your Blood?
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Doctors often send a sample of blood to a lab, to make sure their patients are healthy.

Balloon Bugs
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In this activity, learners make balloon models of disease-causing bacteria.