KAS Prep Students Experience “Bodies…The Exhibition”
By Hygens “KC” Jean and Miss Figuereo
How often does a person get a chance to look inside themselves and see what it looks like? Students from Ms. Figuereo’s remarkable Science class took a class trip to New York City and were able to do just that at “Bodies… The Exhibition!”
“Our class was studying Anatomy and the exhibit was an excellent opportunity for the student’s to be able to look within themselves and see the human body,” said Ms. Figuereo. “They need to know why they should take care of themselves.”
At the exhibit, myself and many other students viewed real bodies that have been put on display. When I first reached the building I thought I was going to do a test and that was it. I had no real intention of learning anything. Although, after passing through each and every gallery, I learned and observed things I never knew about the human body.
At Bodies… The Exhibition, myself and many other KAS Prep students viewed bodies that were preserved to show bodily systems. Anybody who goes to the exhibit can see real human bodies dissected to show the skeletal system, muscular, nervous, and all the way to the bodies reproductive systems. There is also a room dedicated to fetal development that proved to be quite moving to many KAS Prep students. I personally wish I could have skipped that room.
We learned some entertaining facts about the body, such as an average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. One thing that completely astounded me was when I heard the lungs are the only organ in the body that can float on water. I also heard that the heart is the same size as my fist.
Besides some of those fun facts students also were able to actually see the damage that they can do to their own bodies by smoking, drugs, alcohol, and eating unhealthy foods. An example, would be the room that showed a comparison between the lungs of a smoker and a non-smoker. The smoker’s lung was a dark charcoal color, whereas the non-smoker’s lung was a healthy pink. Students were told that smoking one pack of cigarettes in a day can reduce a person’s life span by three hours.
“I really hope that my students were able to see with their own eyes that it pays off to live a healthy lifestyle,” Miss Figuereo says. “The damage that they can do to their bodies without realizing it can be severe.”
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