Instructional Video5:51
Curated Video

The Role of White Blood Cells in the Immune System

Higher Ed
The video provides an explanation of how the immune system works to defend the body against infection from pathogens, using white blood cells. It focuses on two types of white blood cells, phagocytes and lymphocytes, describing their...
Instructional Video6:48
Curated Video

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases: Understanding the Types and Impacts

Higher Ed
This video is a lecture presentation on communicable and non-communicable diseases. The presenter defines what a disease is and explains the difference between communicable and non-communicable diseases. The video also discusses the...
Instructional Video3:10
FuseSchool

How Is Water Treated In Sewage Works

6th - Higher Ed
The aim of sewage treatment should be to return nutrients back to the soil, but without any harmful pathogens. Composting toilets do this, making use of aerobic bactweria to achieve a pathogen free fertiliser. However, most toilets are...
Instructional Video13:12
Professor Dave Explains

The Immune System: Innate Defenses and Adaptive Defenses

12th - Higher Ed
There are so many critters out there, bacteria and viruses that want to wreak havoc in our bodies. How do we defend ourselves against such tiny threats? The immune system! This is quite possibly the most profoundly remarkable aspect of...
Instructional Video8:00
Journey to the Microcosmos

The Micro World Right Under Your Feet

9th - Higher Ed
The Micro World Right Under Your Feet
Instructional Video8:14
Professor Dave Explains

Introduction to the Microbial World

12th - Higher Ed
It's time to learn about microorganisms! These are all the tiny little critters in the water, and the air, and in the ground, and inside you. We didn't even know they were there until a few hundred years ago, but once we started to learn...
Instructional Video6:39
Cerebellum

Colonization Of North America: Spanish Settlements - Bringing Christianity To North America And The Conquest Of The Aztecs

9th - 12th
Chronicles the exploits of Cortes, De Soto, and Coronado; and Spanish incursions into South & Central America, Mexico and the American Southwest. This video looks at the impact of Spanish missions to North America and how many Native...
Instructional Video7:07
Catalyst University

Anatomy & Physiology of the Spleen

Higher Ed
In this video, we discuss the following: [1] the basic anatomy of spleen [2] the two major functions of the spleen (RBC degradation & immune responses) and the division of labor between red and white pulp.
Instructional Video2:31
FuseSchool

What Are Vaccinations?

6th - Higher Ed
Vaccinations protect both humans and animals from a wide range of preventable and potentially serious illnesses. With vaccines, we take advantage of one of the most important aspects of the immune system: the ability to develop...
Instructional Video4:33
Mazz Media

Integumentary System

6th - 8th
In this live-action program viewers will learn that the integumentary system is the body's barrier between its interior and the outside. It is an organ system consisting of the skin, hair, nails, and exocrine glands. Students will come...
Instructional Video4:05
FuseSchool

Fungal Diseases

6th - Higher Ed
Imagine a world without bananas! It’s a real possibility… a fungal disease is attacking and killing banana trees, and as yet we haven’t found a cure.
Instructional Video3:19
Visual Learning Systems

Understanding Infectious Diseases and Transmission

9th - 12th
This video provides an overview of infectious diseases and how they are transmitted. It explains the role of the immune system in fighting off harmful organisms and highlights various ways pathogens can be spread, including direct and...
Instructional Video4:02
Science360

Science Behind The News: Influenza & Flu Vaccines

12th - Higher Ed
Every flu season, Americans battle coughs, fevers and body aches. The flu is a respiratory illness caused by a virus, a pathogen that causes disease in the human body. To understand how the flu is caught, spread and treated, Duke...
Instructional Video2:58
FuseSchool

What Is Blood?

6th - Higher Ed
In this video we are going to discover what blood is made of and the roles of the different components. Blood consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. Red blood cells are disc shaped and contain haemoglobin,...
Instructional Video3:32
FuseSchool

The Immune System

6th - Higher Ed
The main role of the immune system is to prevent disease caused by infection. Infections can be caused by a wide variety of pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, parasites (such as malaria) and viruses (such as influenza and the common...
News Clip6:12
Curated Video

+EMBARGOED 1100 GMT 9 APRIL 2014+ World Health Organisation releases first guidelines for Hepatitis C treatment

Higher Ed
Hepatitis C virus is most commonly transmitted through exposure to contaminated blood. Which is why tattooist Nick Reid has a long hygiene ritual before he begins to work on client Cain McLaren. All surfaces are scrubbed down with...
Instructional Video13:04
Bozeman Science

Plant and Animal Defense

9th - 12th Standards
Explain the defense systems of both plants and animals against pathogens with a biology video. It covers the disruption of the immune system through hypersensitive responses, normal responses, nonspecific immune responses, as well as the...
Instructional Video5:06
TED-Ed

Vultures: The Acid-Puking, Plague-Busting Heroes of the Ecosystem

6th - 12th
Vultures may be difficult to imagine as super-heroes. They eat rotten meat, puke acid, and certainly aren't very attractive. However, recent research has shown how essential they are to the ecosystem. A short animated video reveals how...
Instructional Video5:04
TED-Ed

How Do Viruses Jump from Animals to Humans?

6th - 12th Standards
Can humans be infected by animal viruses? Pupils explore the phenomenon of viral evolution and learn about how animal viruses sometimes adapt to infect humans. They see how viruses are transmitted and what pathogens need to survive. The...
Instructional Video7:25
Be Smart

Could You Be Immune to Everything?

6th - 12th Standards
Could super immunity be the next big super power? Discover the amazing inner workings of the immune system through an engaging video from an interesting science playlist. Animated antibodies take on a variety of pathogenic invaders while...
Instructional Video2:36
FuseSchool

Human Defense Systems Against Pathogens

9th - 12th Standards
With so many harmful agents around us, how do humans stay healthy? Find out by watching an informative video from a larger biology playlist that details our defenses against a variety of pathogens. The narrator describes the body...
Instructional Video3:12
FuseSchool

What Are White Blood Cells?

9th - 12th Standards
White blood cells are our body's tiniest warriors! How do they work? Biology scholars discover the types and functions of white blood cells through a video from an intriguing biology playlist. The resource profiles both types of white...
Instructional Video3:24
FuseSchool

How are Pathogens Spread and Controlled?

9th - 12th Standards
How can we stop the tiny terrors that cause illness? Junior epidemiologists examine the methods used to control the spread of pathogens with a video from from a biology playlist. The narrator describes the benefits of hygiene,...