Various body systems and organs are recreated out of colorful interlocking foam mats. They are large enough for people to stand inside! They are linked together with walkable pathways which represent blood vessels, nerves, ducts, and the gastrointestinal tract. The mats are safe, provide good traction and are easily cleaned. They can be set up in a matter of minutes on any floor space.

Participants learn physiology through being body parts such as: blood cells; organs; hormones; and nerves in order to physically transport substances such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, information, nutrients, calcium, glucose, waste products, digestive enzymes and hormones around the body.

Role-playing modules currently available:

Cardiovascular system

Digestive system

Understanding Blood Sugar [Diabetes prevention]

Nervous system

Role-playing the Cardiovascular System. Learn how blood cells are born and retired. Experience transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from lungs and body cells. Move through the hearts chambers in time to the pacemaker. Bring the cells waste products to the kidneys, and feed cells with nutrients that have been absorbed through the small intestine and checked by the liver.

Role-playing the Digestive System. Transport different foods through the gastrointestinal tract, digesting them with enzymes from the various organs. Be the small intestine and give the nutrients to the blood. As blood, deliver the nutrients to a body cell, which is able to choose how they are used.

Role-playing Understanding Blood Sugar. Choose foods to eat and experience glucose entering circulation as balloons. Be a pancreas counting glucose and sending out insulin or glucagons to keep levels of sugar steady. Be a liver, storing, altering and releasing sugar as needed. As a muscle, store glucose, or burn it by exercising. Play with choosing to eat more food, or using stored sugar. Experience the consequences of insulin resistance, when muscles and the liver turn away the balloons [glucose] brought by insulin, if they already have too much stored sugar. Observe a model body deteriorate a little each time insulin resistance occurs.

Role-playing the Nervous System. Choose a sensory input and send the information to the brain through the sensory and inter-neurons. Be a brain checking its memory files for a response, or initiate a directive of your own, sending your request through a motor neuron! Be the body and play with carrying out the requests. Explore the different neural pathways of reflexes, automatic and willed actions.