Human Body Learning Lab: Take an Inside Tour of How Your Anatomy Works

2024 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Winner

Pediatrician Dr. Betty Choi invites kids ages 8 and up to explore the marvels of the human body with lively hands-on projects and activities, including shaping bones from salt dough, creating a moving model of the eyes, crafting a 3d skin model, making a blow-up model of how a bicep muscle contracts, tracing capillary action, and even setting up a working model of the urinary system to show how pee is produced.

Packed with colorful diagrams of how each major body system works, fun facts, and easy tests that kids can use to learn about and evaluate their own body functions—from touch sensitivity to colorblindness, taste perception, lung capacity and more—The Human Body Learning Lab makes biology more exciting and engaging than ever.

Betty Choi, MD is a pediatrician and writer with extensive experience in medical education content development. She is the author of Human Body Learning Lab, which won an AAAS/Subaru SB&F Award for Excellence in Science Books, and her advice on children's health and development has been featured in Parents, Popsugar, and Verywell Family. Dr. Choi completed her pediatrics training at Boston Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center and worked as a pediatric physician. Passionate about improving science communication and access to affordable education, she has reached thousands of families around the world to advocate for healthy, positive parenting; hands-on learning for children; and diversity and inclusion through her writing, website, and social media. She lives in California with her husband and children.