This kit, part of a 2003 Team Nutrition Training Grant awarded to Illinois, is based on the Kansas material "Body Walk: An Exciting Education Exhibit for K-5 Students," but this material allows a school to hold a body walk event without scheduling and using a traveling exhibit. Instead, the school develops their own exhibit with tips from the guidebook.
Body Walk: An Exciting Educational Exhibit for K-5 Students
Participants are assigned as food items and walk through a body exhibit with stations for the brain, mouth, stomach, small intestines, heart, lungs, bones, muscles and skin. Students learn about the function of the various parts of the body with an emphasis on choosing good food and being physically active.
Body Walk Manual - (Download the full manual: PDF | 2.19 MB)
- Cover (PDF | 102 KB)
- TOC (PDF | 102 KB)
- Introduction (PDF | 179 KB)
- Body Walk Suggested Setup (PDF | 148 KB)
- Timeline/Checklist (PDF | 227 KB)
- Four Weeks before:
Teacher Memo (DOC | 69 KB)- Three Weeks before:
Sample Proclamation (DOC | 25 KB)
Volunteer Recruitment Letter (DOC | 26 KB)
Station Presenter Sign-Up Sheet (DOC | 33 KB)
Set-Up/Take-Down Crew Sign-Up Sheets (DOC | 30 KB)- One Week before:
Classroom Schedule (DOC | 34 KB)
Pre-Body Walk News Release (DOC | 28 KB)- Day before:
Teacher Memo (DOC | 24 KB)- Event Day:
Classroom Schedule (DOC | 34 KB)
Post-Body Walk News Release (DOC | 26 KB)- One Week After:
Teacher Memo (DOC | 25 KB)
Volunteer Thank You Letter (DOC | 24 KB)- Ways to Maximize the Body Walk Experience (PDF | 233 KB)
- The Schedule for Body Walk Day (PDF | 162 KB)
- Station Scripts and Design Ideas (PDF | 734 KB)
Classroom Activities (PDF | 810 KB)
Teacher Resources (PDF | 101 KB)
Body Walk Food Tags (DOC | 25 KB)
Flip Book Scripts
Student Activity Book - (Download the full workbook: PDF | 16.4 MB)
- Cover and Inside Cover (PDF | 490 KB)
- Intro pages- MyPyramid, Activity Pyramid (PDF | 4.19 MB)
- Brain (PDF | 1.07 MB)
- Mouth (PDF | 1.62 MB)
- Stomach (PDF | 685 KB)
- Small Intestine (PDF | 724 KB)
- Heart (PDF | 824 KB)
- Lungs (PDF | 2.70 MB)
- Bones (PDF | 709 KB)
- Muscles (PDF | 794 KB)
- Skin (PDF | 749 KB)
- Additional Activities (PDF | 2.64 MB)