TED-Ed
What Does the Pancreas Do?
We are all born with one, but how many people actually know what the pancreas does? Follow along with a short video as it examines the important role this often-overlooked organ plays in digesting food and maintaining...
TED-Ed
How Do Your Kidneys Work?
If humans can live without one kidney, how important can they really be? Investigate the vital role these organs play in filtering our blood, removing waste, and managing our bodies' water supply with this short animated video.
TED-Ed
What Does the Liver Do?
It's the heaviest organ in the human body, but exactly what role does the liver play in sustaining life? Follow along with this short video as it explores the various ways the liver filters, stores, and manufactures materials...
Curated OER
How Your Body Works 1, Overview of Nutrition & Wellness
Nutritionist Radhia Gleis explains what metabolism is and how to assess it. Food is processed and used by the body producing waste in the end. The steps of the digestive system are explained from its beginning in the mouth to its end in...
Curated OER
Digestive Enzymes, Nutrition and Your Health
As Natalie describes in this video, nutrition is about more than just having a healthy diet. Your body's absorption, digestion, and elimination is key in your overall health. The function of enzymes is clearly explained along with the...
Nemours KidsHealth
How the Body Works: The Digestive System
Break down the digestive system for your class. This webpage features a video, but also includes an article to read, an interactive assessment, and printables! Through the publisher's website, there are even individual videos about the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Growth and Metabolism: Digesting Food
Get an overview of three of the key macromolecules of life (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), and how they get digested and absorbed.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pyramid and Plate
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy interviews Food Pyramid, who tells him that he's retiring! But wait, there's a new food helper in town-- Food Plate! Students learn about the idea of the Food Plate, that divides the average meal...
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 7.3 Metabolic Reactions: Student Playlist
This student playlist demonstrates the Metabolic Reactions unit investigations where the students investigate what happens to food after we eat, and how it affects the body.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Accessory Organs: Pancreas, Gallbladder, Liver: Lesson 6
This lesson will introduce the role of the pancreas, gallbladder and liver in digestion. It is 6 of 10 in the series titled "Accessory Organs: Pancreas, Gallbladder, Liver."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Small Intestine Structure/function: Lesson 1
This lesson will examine the structure of the small intestine and its role in digestion. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Small Intestine Structure/Function."
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Digestive System
A great little movie that follows your food from the time you eat it onward through your digestive system. Good basic information. From KidsHealth.
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #35: Digestive System, Part 3
Nachos are great - if you are among the lucky ones whose body can digest them. When digestion goes according to plan, the small intestine performs most of your chemical digestion in the duodenum, while accessory organs including the...
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #34: Digestive System, Part 2
Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis St. Martin was shot in the stomach. He was saved by local army doctor William Beaumont, but had to live out his remaining years with a gaping hole in the stomach -- allowing Beaumont to learn a lot about how...
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #33: Digestive System, Part 1
Nachos are delicious. And versatile because today they're also going to help us learn a thing or two about your digestive system. Nachos can provide us with energy and raw materials, by first ingesting something nutritious, propelling it...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Digestive System Disorders
A narrated lesson exploring the causes and affects of various disorders of the digestive system. [7:15]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Structure and Function of Macromolecules: Enzymes
Listen to this podcast introducing the function of enzymes in the human body. [0:38]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #28: The Digestive System
Hank takes us through the bowels of the human digestive system and explains why it's all about surface area. [11:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology Foundations: Introduction to Vitamins and Minerals
Overview of common vitamins and minerals that are important to human health. [6:11]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Digestive and Excretory: Systems: Meet the Gastrointestinal Tract!
Understand the gastrointestinal tract. [5:20]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Small Intestine 2: Digestion
This Khan Academy resource is a video on the digestion process within the small intestine.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Small Intestine 1: Structure
In this video created for Khan Academy discusses how the small intestine works.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Small Intestine 3: Absorption
This video describes how our small intestine works and how macromolecules are absorbed. [4:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Teeth
This Khan Academy resource is a video about the role teeth play in the digestion system.