The Giant Heart is one of the friendliest places to learn about heart health. It features a walk-through heart, crawl through arteries complete with plaque, exercising skeleton and an authentic operating suite where open-heart surgery is in progress. Students can see how much blood is in their bodies, hear blood flowing through arteries, take their own blood pressure and EKGs, and see live demonstrations of ultrasound and a heart dissection.

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Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France
Wired to Win presents a new portrait of the brain—an organ built to learn, changing its cell structure with each thought and experience. See full description.

Live Shows and Workshops
Reservations required. Duration: 25 min.

Within the Skin Show Grades 3–5*
Come with us on a wild journey through the human body. Discover how what we eat is digested and turned into energy, how the muscular and nervous systems work and what blood accomplishes on its journey through the body. Minimum 30 students; maximum 60. 30 min.

Why We Get Sick Show Grades 6–8*
Ever wonder why your nose runs when you get sick or why your muscles ache with the flu? This live interactive show explores the mechanisms that make up your immune system and gives you a new respect for mucus, fevers and our digestive reflexes. Minimum 30 students; maximum 60.

Body Breakdown Show Grades 9–12*
What happens when you die? Explore each body system as it shuts down, and learn how it affects the corpse—like after death twitching and pooling blood. Learn how methods like life support, cryonics, plastinization and embalming slow down the process. This interactive show explores the body on both a systemic and cellular level. Minimum 30 students; maximum 60. 30 min.

The Giant Heart Workshop Grades 3–5*
Explore the form and function of the heart. Be part of a “Heart Relay Race” learning how the heart pumps blood through the body via the circulatory system, and what happens as blood makes this roundtrip circuit.
Minimum 30 students; maximum 60. 30 min.

Heart Dissection Grades 9–12*
Hands-on learning is fundamental in this interactive workshop. Working under the direction of a trained museum instructor, each student will dissect a sheep’s heart to learn about its internal and external structure.
Minimum 30 students; maximum 60.

Eye Dissection Grades 6–8*
The eye is a very complex organ. Students will dissect a real cow eye to explore the function and structure of a mammalian eye, andlearn about vision. Minimum 30 students; maximum 60.

*Available with Giant Heart Experiences only.