Instructional Video1:40
60 Second Histories

Victorian Workhouse - part 2; scandal

K - 5th
This short clip explores a terrible scandal where inmates were forced to pick meat off bones meant for fertiliser because they were so hungry.
Instructional Video1:01
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - Being A Good Role Model

Higher Ed
In this interview Gill Todd discusses techniques that can help carers to become more effective in helping people with eating disorders.
Instructional Video1:55
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - Patient Confidentiality

Higher Ed
In this video Janet Treasure discusses confidentiality and how medical proffessionals approach this challenge, particularly when they are dealing with patients over the age of 18.
Instructional Video3:27
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - Effects On Siblings

Higher Ed
In this video Janet Treasure discusses the effect on a child of a sibling suffering with an eating disorder, and how parents can try to deal with and help their children cope with these issues.
Instructional Video1:10
Next Animation Studio

‘Dead zone’ growing, killing Oregon’s sea crabs

12th - Higher Ed
Fish can escape from the deadly water, but slow creatures like crabs get trapped and die.
Instructional Video2:34
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - The Power Of Laughter

Higher Ed
In the interview Gill Todd discusses the power of laughter in helping patients and carers deal with the experience of having or supporting someone with an eating disorder.
Instructional Video2:15
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - Ground Rules For Carers Sessions

Higher Ed
In this video Jenny Langley discusses her book 'Boys Get Anorexia Too'. Jenny Langley's eldest son developed anorexia around the age of 12. After his recovery Jenny Langley decided to write a book about the experience, challenges and...
Instructional Video2:11
Curated Video

The Donner Party’s Deadly Detour

9th - Higher Ed
Taking a shortcut in the unexplored American West was always a gamble – but for the Reed and Donner families it proved catastrophic.
Instructional Video0:27
The March of Time

Men in hunger test

12th - Higher Ed
MOT 1946: NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: EXT WS College buildings. MEDICAL RESEARCH: Young adult males, Conscientious Objectors, being used in Army hunger testing: Doctor listening to chest w/ stethoscope, male in bed eating cracker....
Instructional Video8:24
Step Back History

The Badass Girl Scouts Who Helped Win World War II

12th - Higher Ed
The Girl Scouts, or Girl Guides, have been around for just over 100 years. You probably think of them as smiley campers, selling cookies and earning badges, but I’m going to tell you a different story. Today, let’s talk about their...
Instructional Video14:11
JJ Medicine

Low Phosphate (Hypophosphatemia): Causes, Symptoms, Treatment | & Role of Phosphate, Dietary Sources

Higher Ed
Low Phosphate (Hypophosphatemia) | Causes, Symptoms, Treatment | & Role of Phosphate, Dietary Sources



Lesson on low phosphate (Hypophosphatemia), purpose of phosphate, dietary sources of phosphate, causes of low phosphate,...
Instructional Video11:48
JJ Medicine

Macroautophagy | Regulation During Feeding, Fasting and Starvation

Higher Ed
Lesson on macroautophagy and regulation by fasting and starvation, with an additional detailed overview of how macroautophagy is inhibited during feeding and the fed state. Macroautophagy is a nutrient responsive process and is inhibited...
Instructional Video10:31
Weird History

What Was life Like On The Tail of Tears?

12th - Higher Ed
The Trail of Tears, the forced migration of Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole tribe members, and many others, from their ancestral lands in the US Southeast to allowed territory in Oklahoma, resulted in the deaths of over...
Instructional Video10:37
Weird History

Ernest Shackleton's Doom,ed Antarctic Trek

12th - Higher Ed
Few exploits of the 20th century could match the courage and perseverance of the Shackleton expedition. Ernest Shackleton became the ultimate model for crisis management when his ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition met with disaster.
Instructional Video1:21
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - The Aims Of Treatment

Higher Ed
In this video Janet Treasure discusses what kind of improvements health care proffessionals aim to make when they treat people suffering with eating disorders. Whilst often physical effects are the most obvious ones to be treated there...
Instructional Video1:03
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - Why Its Recovery Can Be Hard

Higher Ed
In this video Janet Treasure discusses some of the difficulties in recovering from eating disorders. One of the key problems is the lack of nutrition available for brain power, which can impact their ability to change learned behaviours.
Instructional Video1:45
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - Interpretation Distorted By Starvation

Higher Ed
In this video Janet Treasure discusses how in helping someone with an eating disorder it can be important to adopt a soft gentle tone in order to help understand the person better.
Instructional Video2:38
Octopus TV

Eating Disorders - Isolation

Higher Ed
In this video Janet Treasure discusses approaches to coping with and support those suffering from eating disorders.
Instructional Video9:33
Curated Video

Starving For Total War - Turnip Winter 1916

9th - Higher Ed Standards
How important is food to the outcome of war? Scholars investigate the impact of starvation on the home front of European nations during the First World War. They view a short video clip from the 32-part Great War series to analyze the...
Instructional Video8:22
Be Smart

Defusing the Population Bomb

6th - 12th Standards
With a human population of 7.6 billion and counting, how do we tackle the population problem? Examine the data using a video from an extensive science playlist. The resource explains why the human population began to increase rapidly,...
Instructional Video11:02
Crash Course

World War II, A War for Resources: Crash Course World History #220

9th - 12th Standards
What was the role of food in World War II? Examine Japan and Germany's pursuit of autarky and the acquisition of resources with a Crash Course World History video, which also addresses the varying ways that countries fighting in World...
Instructional Video12:51
Crash Course

Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215

9th - 12th Standards
Thomas Malthus posed the most famous, and most easily disproven, theory about projected population growth in economic history. What did he get wrong—and why? Explore the Malthusian Theory of Population with a Crash Course video that...
Instructional Video10:30
Crash Course

Drought and Famine: Crash Course World History

9th - 12th Standards
Who is to blame for widespread famine? Crash Course World History guides high schoolers through a video about droughts, famines, and whether the weather or human activity is at fault for each.
Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Thomas Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population

9th - 12th Standards
Can human population ever exceed its ability to produce food? High schoolers watch a short overview of Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population to learn more about the subsistence level of the human population,...