Stuffee, The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s blue-haired mascot will soon be coming to the community. This appealing, overstuffed character turns inside out via a large green zipper to reveal the major abdominal organs for a fun-filled anatomy lesson for pre-schoolers to medical students!

On the outside, Stuffee is suggestive of a real person. His size, shape, blue hair, big smiling eyes, ear-to-ear grin, and giant zipper up the middle place him as a rather distant relation to any real person. This fact is used to point out that we all look quite different on the outside. On the inside, however, we all look quite remarkably alike! And Stuffee’s organs, while made of appealing fabrics, colors and textures, are really quite accurate representations of actual human organs in appearance and close to scale for a body as large as Stuffee’s.

Because of Stuffee’s internal integrity, it is possible to give as sophisticated a presentation as an audience may require. Stuffee was designed for The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, which serves an audience of pre-schoolers through 8th graders.

Presentations have been given very successfully to all grade levels, as well as to very diverse family audiences that may include a three year old, an eight year old, a twelve year old and a brain surgeon!

Lesson Information Sheet

Body Basics with Stuffee grades Pre-K – 2nd

Lesson Time: 30 minutes

Program Goal: To introduce and explain the importance of the heart, lungs, and
stomach, and how to keep each organ healthy.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and locate specific organs in the body, the heart, the lungs and the
  stomach.
• Identify the function of the heart, the lungs, and the stomach.
• Identify ways to keep the heart, the lungs, and the stomach healthy.
  

Body Basics with Stuffee grades 3-4

Lesson Time: 45 minutes

Program Goal: To introduce and explain the importance of the heart, lungs, stomach and liver, and how to keep each organ healthy.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and locate specific organs in the body, the heart, the lungs, the stomach, and the liver.
• Identify the function of the heart, the lungs, stomach and the liver.
• Identify ways to keep the heart, the lungs, stomach and the liver healthy.
  

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