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Family Reading & Science Program

The 2012 Family Reading and Science Program Workshop Series is Vital Signs: How Health Works. Workshops are designed for children ages 6-11, accompanied by an adult.

Each year the Museum partners with public libraries all over Southeastern Michigan to present a series of three fun, family workshops about science. This year, to tie in with the temporary exhibition called Evolution & Health (February 2012-January 2013), we are focusing on showing families what doctors mean when they talk about health, and how factors in our daily lives may affect our health.

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Workshop 1:
How YOU work:
What are you made of and what do your vital signs mean? 

We will explore what makes you who you are. We’ll look at the building blocks that make our bodies (cells and DNA), figure out what the numbers doctors talk about really tell us, and see how it all works together.

Workshop 2:
Germs, parasites and allergies:
Oh my! What makes us sick and what makes us well? 

We will look at some of the things that make us sick, and find out what our bodies do to protect themselves.

Workshop 3:
Build the $6 million you:
Making the most of your health. 

We will learn what we can do to improve and maintain our health. We’ll examine how our environment, healthy eating, and exercise influence our health and well-being.

Workshops at the Museum

To register for workshops at the Museum, call Jeremey King at (734) 764-0480 or email jpking@umich.edu.

Workshops at the Museum: 

Sunday, January 22, 1pm

Sunday, February 19, 1pm

Sunday, March 18, 1pm

Join us for Health Discovery Day, Saturday March 24, 9am to 5pm!

Family Reading & Science workshops are funded by a generous grant from the Toyota USA Foundation