BODY WORLDS 3 & The Story of the Heart
Note: This exhibit may not be appropriate for all age groups.
Ten years. Twenty-five million people. Forty-five countries. BODY WORLDS.
Beginning Sept. 19, the most successful touring exhibit ever will make its first stop in Utah. Hosted by The Leonardo and presented by University Health Care, Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS 3 & The Story of the Heart features over 200 authentic human specimens that offer profound insights into the human body, health and disease.
Volunteer, group sales and field trip opportunities are available. To learn more about the exhibit, plan your visit, or purchase tickets, go to www.theleonardo.org, or call 1-888-695-0888. Tickets are limited, so call or go online today.
Activity Guides - Online Activities - Information - Interactives
Lesson Plans - Resources - TV Programs / Video
Activity Guides
- Educator's Guide Grades (pdf)
This guide provides educators information about the exhibit, planning tips and field trip guidelines and checklists. In addition, educators can find a sample permission form for parents and guardians. - Classroom Activity Guide Grades 5-8 (pdf)
These classroom activities can be used as either pre-visit activities to prepare students for BODY WORLDS 3 & The Story of the Heartor as post-visit activities to help debrief them. Activities include: Building your own lung, Making a stethoscope to listen to your heart and guts, and Discovering how blood travels through the body. - Classroom Activity Guide Grades 9-12 (pdf)
This guide for ninth - twelfth graders provides a variety of activities and experiments, including Digestion of Fat, How Bile Works, and Test for Glucose. - Student Guide (pdf)
Students can learn what plastination is and how it was used to preserve the bodies for this exhibit. - Family Guide (pdf)
Here are some tips for parents who are vising the exhibit with their children as well as amazing Body Facts and Frequently Asked Questions.
Online Activities
- Heart Transplant
This online e-sheet gives students a chance to complete questions learning about this most important organ. - Skeletal System
This activity provides students a chance to look at the skeletal system using several web sites to learn the answers questions about the inner body. - Skin and Other Organs (pdf)
Use this PDF file to match each of the organ systems to their function.
- How Stuff Works: Anatomy
Here you can read about different body parts as well as body systems. - Kids Health: Your Muscles
In this article for kids, find out the basics of how muscles work and what they do. - National Geographic: The Science of Lance Armstrong
In this article, readers can find out how Lance overcome average muscle efficiency to win several important bike races. - You & Your Skin
Have you ever wondered why you tan or burn? Find out why and a lot more by reading this article on skin. - Your Gross and Cool Body
This web site is from "The Yuckiest Site on the Internet" and helps you learn more about the different body systems, focusing on the yucky things your body makes.
- A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
This resource, from MadSciNet, features a virtual tour of the human body in cross-section. The animations and images in this tour demonstrate planes of section and other introductory concepts in anatomy. - A Science Odyssey: Probe the Brain
Using a map of the motor cortex, the area of your brain that controls muscle movement, you get to click/probe the brain to see which areas are connected. - All Systems Go
Help someone replace his lost organs by moving each one back in place - Artificial Anatomy
After looking at small parts of the body you can guess which part it is by clicking on that part of the body. - BBC Interactive Body: Muscle Game
This interactive helps you learn the names of 10 the muscles, where they are in the body, and what they are used for. - Bonko's Body Quiz
Learn how tobacco and drugs effect the body. - The Human Body Quiz Game
Test your knowledge of the human body using this quiz game. - Peering Inside the Body
Learn about the different kinds of imaging and how we are able to see inside the body to check for problems. - Virtual Body
Find out how different body systems work at this interactive web site.
- Visible Body.com
This web site contains 1700 structural images for learning about the in and outside of the body. - Your Amazing Body: Bert and Ernie
Use this K-1 web site to learn more about the different organs and what they do.
- Know Bones About It! Learning How the Body's Skeletal Muscle Groups Work
This New York Times lesson plan helps teach how the muscles are connected to the bones and what they do. - National Health Museum: Contraction in Action
This lesson is deep in scientific terms but has a great activity for students to measure contracted and resting muscles. - National Health Museum: Jumpy Dolls
Students are challenged to design and construct a jointed figure that moves in a motion something like jumping jacks when a string is pulled. - Sun and Skin
This four part activity takes students through what is happening when they get a tan. It also describes the way to get a safe tan. - Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography
This dance lesson helps teach all the different body systems. Students decide how they move to show what they learn about the body.
- BBC Interactive Body: Muscles
This web site has articles and games about the different systems in the human body - Exploratorium: Revealing Bodies
Check out a complete body crossection that has been digitized so that you can see what the body looks like inside. - Human Body Systems-UEN Themepark
This web site provides a collection of resources for each of the body systems. - Innerbody.com: Muscular System
Most of the individual muscle names are listed on this web site as well as the bone they are attached to an responsible for moving. - The Artificial Human
This page, from PBS's NOVA Online, features an activity about artificial body parts for humans
- Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bones and Muscles - eMedia
It doesn't have to be Halloween for the Science Guy to bone up on the things that give the body its shape and movement. In "Bones & Muscles," Bill muscles in to give more than just the bare bones about x-rays, the healing of broken bones, bone marrow, and the body's joints. - Human Body. Bones and Muscles - eMedia
This video explores the characteristics of the skeletal and muscular systems, discusses the different types of muscles and joints in the human body, and gives examples of how we use them everyday. - Human Body Grades 5 - 9
This UEN TV program goes over the major body systems including Bones and Muscles. TV Program - Introduction to Body World Exhibit (mp4 file - 34 MB)
This video provides a glimpse of the exhibit as well as reactions and reviews.