Fast Facts
Explore the science behind nutrition, fitness, and the food we eat with Eat Well, Play Well, a highly interactive bilingual exhibit that encourages healthy living.
$7,500/3-months, plus shipping
Bilingual English-Spanish
Full-body challenges
Active Learning
Acting & Role Playing
How much force do you have to exert to burn off a snack? Which burns more calories: raking leaves or mowing the lawn? Explore the science behind nutrition, fitness, and the food we eat with Eat Well, Play Well, a highly interactive bilingual exhibit that encourages healthy living by teaching the science of making healthy food and active lifestyle choices.
Visitors learn about appropriate serving sizes, and discover fun and engaging ways to stay active through testing flexibility and balance. Eat Well, Play Well showcases the latest clinical research, and ways to reduce risk of disease through attainable healthy choices with highly-interactive, hands-on components that make healthy living fun!
Virtual Tour
Calories In, Calories Out—In this full-body interactive, visitors compare how long it takes to burn off the calories of various snacks.
Animal Motion—Children are encouraged to get out on the dance floor and hop like a bunny, walk like an elephant, run like a cheetah, or just dance around to the fun music.
Balancing Act—Visitors step onto a circular balance board and a timer shows how long they can stay balanced.
Exhibition Overview—This highly interactive exhibit encourages healthy living by teaching the science of making healthy food choices and helping children and adults discover there are many fun and interesting ways to stay active.
Availability
- Spring 2020
Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville, FL
- Summer 2020
American Museum of Science and Energy
- Fall 2020
Gateway Science Center | Chico, CA
- Spring 2021
Town of Windsor | Windsor, CO
- Summer 2021
Available for purchase
School Resources
A collection of PDFs and guides for museum staff and teachers to expand on the educational content of the exhibit, including in-classroom experiments and activities for your museum floor.
Check out the Eat Well, Play Well website for additional information about this engaging exhibit.
Museum Resources
Media Resources
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EAT WELL, PLAY WELL was produced and is toured by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. This exhibit was made possible by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) grant (project number 1R25RR022741-01) from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).