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Two exhibitions, One unforgettable teaching experience What is the single heaviest organ in the body? How does smoke affect the color and shape of the lungs? BODIES… The Exhibition in Atlanta answers these questions, as well as provides an educational experience for teachers and students visiting the exhibition in Atlantic Station. BODIES…The Exhibition provides students with an internal view of the human body and how it functions. It educates students on their own bodies and how to be healthy. All of the bodies on display are real specimens and it is imperative that teachers prepare their class by discussing this detail before touring. Teachers and students will have the opportunity to see humans both in their full form and dissected.The dissected parts provide them with an in-depth view of these essential components and their purpose.The bodies seen on the tour are prepared using a technique called polymer preservation. During this procedure, the tissue is permanently protected using liquid silicone rubber. When the process is complete, the human body is transformed into a rubberized specimen, which helps distinguish its parts. During their tour of BODIES…The Exhibition, students will gain a better understanding for different medical conditions they have learned about in school.The Exhibition highlights the importance of good health — specifically www.seenmagazine.us
showcasing issues like cancer, smoking, cirrhosis, arthritis and bone fractures. One gallery specifically demonstrates the difference in color of healthy lungs
prosthetic joints and surgical tools can be used to restore health.The ninth gallery allows students to write comments about their BODIES...The Exhibition ex-
and lungs affected by cigarette smoke. Throughout their visit, students will have the opportunity to experience nine galleries, each featuring specific body parts and their structures.These galleries include the skeletal, muscle, nervous, circulatory, digestive and reproductive systems, with a separate and optional fetal gallery, and a gallery of how
perience at the end of the tour. Although students can get close to the human bodies, they are unable to physically touch the specimens on display. If they were able to feel the bodies, they would be dry to the touch with either a rigid or flexible texture.This all see BODIES page 146
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