New Body Venture Exhibit – Apply Now for SY 2025-26
Body Venture is a traveling health education exhibit for K-5 students operated by Child Nutrition & Wellness, Kansas State Department of Education. It is a great opportunity for students to learn about the importance of making healthy food choices and being physically active. Body Venture travels in its own truck and sets up in the school gym or multi-purpose room. Body Venture is an enclosed walk-through exhibit representing the human body. At each of Body Venture's eleven learning stations, a volunteer presenter engages the students in an experiential and educational activity focused on healthy choices helping students learn to Eat Smart. Play Hard.
The tour begins in the Body Venture lunchroom when students, in groups of eight to ten, receive a food tag designating them as a “local Kansas food” such as a carrot, lean beef or piece of cheese. The second stop is the brain where students learn about brain function. The "foods" step into the exhibit's larger-than-life mouth, are "swallowed" through the esophagus tunnel and move into the stomach. From the stomach, the students travel through the small intestine where they become nutrients and are absorbed into the blood. The nutrients then travel through the heart, lungs, bones, muscles, and skin stations. Students leave the body through a cut in the skin and proceed to the Pathway to Life, which recaps key health concepts from each of the ten previous stations. It takes each group of students about an hour to complete the Body Venture experience.
The Request to Schedule Body Venture form for SY 2025-26 is now available at https://cnw.ksde.gov, SNP, SNP What’s New. The deadline to apply is May 31st, 2025.