The students at Central Elementary in the Hampton Township School District have their own "Bodies exhibit" that isn't controversial at all.

Standing in the lobby of the school are five packing-tape bodies designed by the students to show off the various systems of the human body.

"Each class has its own figure and all the kids contributed a body part," says Marcy Bogdanich, art teacher at the school.

The project was a collaboration between the fourth-grade art and science classes. Bogdanich worked with science teachers Linda Tunie and Lauren Miller to take the learning from science and turn it into art creations.

The five systems the bodies show off are skeletal, digestive, nervous, circulatory and respiratory.

Each of the bodies is actually modeled after students and their body parts. Some students had tape wrapped around their trunks to get the proper shape, while others donated arms and legs to the work.

They then added the insides to each body for the various systems. The digestive system has intestines, the nervous system has a brain and spinal cord and the respiratory system has balloon lungs to go with Christmas lights.

This is the first time that Bogdanich has tried a project like this, having noticed that a lot of high school classes are tackling body systems.

"I've seen it done in high school and thought, 'I could do that,'" she says. "And we did."

Her ideas didn't really come from the current "Bodies ... The Exhibition" at the Carnegie Science Center that is bringing about some controversy. But her favorite little trick was inspired by the science center's Web site. The spinal cord for the nervous system is made of sponge and dog treats.

"It worked out as a great collaboration between the two science teachers and myself," she says. "It was a ton of fun and the kids were great."

The five bodies took about one class period to make the shape and then another hour or two to fill the insides.

"It is very straightforward, very simple," she says. "They were just so good at putting this together."