Explore the good, the bad and the downright ugly about how your body works!
Explore why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and stinky gunk at GROSSOLOGY: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body, a new limited engagment exhibition at COSI!
GROSSOLOGY uses sophisticated animatronics and imaginative exhibits to tell you the good, the bad and the downright ugly about runny noses, body odor, and much more. See GROSSOLOGY at COSI from January 30 through May 9, 2010.
“[GROSSOLOGY] is science in disguise. If we teach students in their own words, they’ll understand better and actually learn something." -- Teacher, writer, curriculum designer, microbiologist and GROSSOLOGY author Sylvia Branzei
Explore GROSSOLOGY at COSI with your family, friends, and students, and you'll:
- Take a “Tour du Nose” to explore 10 nasal features, including how your snoot acts as an air filter, smell sensor and mucus producer.
- Climb a human skin wall with warts, hairs, wounds and more.
- Visit the Vomit Center and learn why you vomit.
- Stop by the Toot Toot exhibit to create different sounds that replicate the physics of gas.
- Help a larger-than-life cartoon character release a giant burp.
- Crawl and slide through a 30+-foot-long 3-D model of your digestive system.
- Find out what causes runny noses, sneezes and allergies with Nigel Nose-it-All. Microscope stations at this exhibit also feature things that cause runny noses!
- Learn how boogers are formed by launching dirt balls into a larger-than-life nose. Be careful though, it may sneeze and shoot back a slew of dirt balls!
- Test your GROSSOLOGY IQ with a multiple-choice challenge and play the GROSSOLOGY CD with exploratory labs, puzzles, games and other computer activities.
And more totally gross and fun hands-on activities!
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Admission is FREE for COSI Members, and included with general admission.
For books on GROSSOLOGY, visit the Columbus Metropolitan Library website!
To learn more about how to be healthy visit Nationwide Children's Hospital.