Biology
Base Camp (JPEG | 4.55 MB)
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
Using the Vein Viewer, visitors
to Expedition Healthsee 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 Healthvisitors 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
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