This is a gallery guide to Bones: An Exhibit Inside You. You can pick one up at the entrance of the gallery. View the Floor Plan

Content:

	The Zoo Bones give our bodies form for function and help protect our insides. Human and animal skeletons have adapted to help us move in many ways - such as running, walking, crawling, climbing, swinging, jumping or lifting.
	The Superstore What you eat affects how your bones change and grow. Select foods high in calcium to build better bones.
	The Fitness Center What you do affects how your bones change and grow. Build better bones through exercise!
	The Medical Center Bones are living tissue and they change and grow. Doctors and technologies can use machines to see bones in our bodies and to help treat, repair or replace broken or diseased bones.
	The Entrance Bridge Cross the bridge and explore five activity areas, plus an oversized model of a bone.
	The Home Cultures around the world use bones as tools, games, jewelry, musical instruments and artwork. Skeletons are important symbols in many celebrations and ceremonies.

Walk-through Bone Model
Find out what a living, growing healthy bone looks like - from the inside out.

Think about a career in bones!
No bones aobut it! You can have a career in teaching fitness and nutrition or helping people with broken or diseased bones. Check out the photos of doctors, dieticians and trainers throughout the gallery and find out if you might have a future in bones!

Programmatic Experiences
Programs and times vary on a daily basis. Please check the sign-board at the entrance to the gallery or ask a staff person for help.

• Bones up on Your Skeleton - (gallery presentation) Meet Henry, a struggling student at The Institute of Bone Infrastructure and Anatomy (T.I.B.I.A.). Help him out by participating in some fun, interactive experiments focusing on (what else?) BONES!
• Who Wants to be a Boneshead? - (gallery presentation) Think you know a lot about bones? Well, here's your chance to prove it! Your host, Monty brittlebody, keeps the questions flying and the action fast-paced, and it's anyone's guess who will survive to be...THE ULTIMATE BONEHEAD!
• Community Connections - Meet experts from the community for informative sessions on bone health, nutrition and exercise.

Web Sites:

• www.nutritionexplorations.org - The National Dairy Council provides you with diagrams, discussion topics and the latests news on healthy bones.
• www.Lilly.com - Learn about Lilly products that help fight osteoporosis.
• www.OrthoIndy.com - Find out more about the kinds of medical treatments available to treat bone injuries and diseases.
• www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5579/firstlab.html - Designed to help students learn about the human skeleton, this interactive module also includes pictures and diagrams.
• www.eskeletons.org - View human, gorilla ad baboon bones. Compare and contrast and click on the bones you want to learn about.
• www.mexonline.com/muertos.htm - Explore the Mexican celebration, Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in this site, including beautiful photos of altars, toy skeletons, festivities, food and decorations.

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