Biology Base Camp (JPEG | 4.55MB)
Expedition Health features Biology Base Camp, a real working lab where families can put on lab coats, goggles, and gloves and conduct experiments together. They can discover the amount of sugar in breakfast cereals, extract DNA, and look at their own cells under a microscope, and more. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Tykes Peak (JPEG | 3.66MB)
Expedition Health features Tykes Peak, an area designed especially for young learners that includes a mix of full body activity, dramatic play, and multisensory experiences. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Muscle Challenge (JPEG | 4.12MB)
Visitors to Expedition Health discover the unique abilities of their own bodies through a variety of engaging activities including Muscle Challenge, a horizontal climbing ledge that turns two corners. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Bio Bike Ride (JPEG | 3.71MB)
Families who visit Expedition Health experience highly interactive, highly personalized activities that focus on their own amazing, incredible bodies. One of the featured activities is BioRide, where visitors pedal on virtual ride through the Rocky Mountains, learn their personal target heart rates, and measure their pulse. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Full Body Viewer (JPEG | 3.46MB)
Expedition Health gives visitors the chance to visualize what’s beneath their skin with the Full Body Viewer. When a visitor walks up to a projection screen, a skeleton appears that moves, squats, and waves, mirroring the visitor’s own movements and showing various body systems in action: the nervous and endocrine systems, the circulatory and respiratory system, or the musculature. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Brain Challenge (JPEG | 3.24MB)
Visitors to Expedition Health are challenged to cross a virtual stream over a low-lying “log” while maintaining their balance. They learn how the sense of balance is maintained by a complex integration of signals to the brain from other parts of the body. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Vein Viewer (JPEG | 3.65MB)
Using the Vein Viewer, visitors to Expedition Health see their own totally unique network of blood vessels up to a quarter-inch under their skin. They learn the unique characteristics of arteries, veins, and capillaries, and see how blood circulates through the body. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Peak Pass (JPEG | 3.67MB)
The Peak Pass records personal information about Expedition Health visitors at different stations—things like their heart rate and the length and speed of their stride when they walk. At the end of the exhibition, visitors print out their own Peak Pass Personal Profile with all their measurements from the different activities and can extend their visit by accessing additional activities online. © Scott Dressel-Martin
Biology Base Camp (JPEG | 3.27MB)
Biology Base Camp, the participatory lab in Expedition Health, enables visitors of all ages to perform real experiments, test hypotheses, and be scientists for the day. A computer-based lab companion leads visitors through each step of the experiment, while volunteers circulate to answer specific questions and offer assistance when needed. © Scott Dressel-Martin
See Yourself Age (JPEG | 3.37MB)
Expedition Health enables visitors to fast-forward the age of their face, using a compelling computer interactive. Visitors’ faces are subjected (virtually) to the damage caused by smoking, sunlight, and obesity—all factors that lead to cell damage and play a role in aging the body. © Scott Dressel-Martin
