Curated OER
What is Blood?
When we speak of blood, we are usually talking about several different components that make up blood. Do you know what blood consists of? This informative video explains the three elements of blood as well as the nutrients in plasma. The...
FuseSchool
Intro to Cells: Animal, Plant, Nerve and Red Blood Cells
Throw your dendrites in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care! An excellent video in the Fuse School playlist explains the parts and functions of cells. It describes their structures, functions, and specialties.
Curated OER
The Circulatory System
Compare a variety of animals' circulatory systems to the human circulatory system. Paul Andersen uses his SMART Board to show the differences between two, three, and four chamber hearts, focusing on the human heart.
TED-Ed
How Bones Make Blood
Bones are blood cell factories. Viewers learn all about bone marrow and how blood cells produced in the marrow of a donor can be grafted into a cancer patient to fight the disease.
FuseSchool
What Is Blood?
Blood makes up approximately seven percent of the weight of each human, but what is blood? As part of the Fuse School Biology playlist, the video describes the four components of blood. It offers descriptions of what they look like as...
TED-Ed
What Is Leukemia?
Leukemia afflicts children more than any other type of cancer. Pupils explore the nature of harmful mutations in cell DNA, the reproduction of damaged cells in blood and bone marrow, and their effect on normal functions of the human body.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Birth and Death of Genes
Notothenioids are not your average fish—they contain antifreeze! An interesting video introduces the icefish, a scaleless fish with colorless blood that lives in the oceans around Antarctica. It explains how gene duplication and...