Crash Course
Disease! Crash Course World History 203
International exploration and trade have largely carved out the world we know now. However, these historical movements often contributed to widespread pandemics of diseases, including the Bubonic Plague and other regional illnesses that...
Be Smart
Rise of the Superbugs
The narrator of a short video shows learners the history of antibiotics with the use of penicillin. Viewers then see how bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics and what that means for our future health and for the...
SciShow
Should You Use Hydrogen Peroxide to Clean Wounds?
Many families use hydrogen peroxide to clean wounds, but should they? The presenter explains the science behind antiseptics. His conclusion, based on the science, is that we should use water and maybe a little soap to clean any wound.
SciShow
Biofilm: A New (Gross) Thing to Worry About
Slime is fun, except when it is the glue holding together the bacteria that makes you sick. This video explains what biofilm is, how it works, and why it is terrifying. It also focuses on the illnesses caused by biofilm, the way...
Be Smart
You Are Mainly Microbe… Meet Your Microbiome!
Can your body be its own ecosystem? Yes, in fact there are many ecosystems in your body. The video explains what microbes are, where they are located, and why. It focuses on the many good things bacteria do for bodies and the issues that...
Teach Engineering
How Antibiotics Work
Take two pills and call me in the morning. The first lesson in a short unit of four introduces class members to delivery methods of medicines. The instruction introduces the question of which delivery method is best to get you feeling...
Amoeba Sisters
Bacteria: The Good, The Bad, The Kinda Gross
While the bad bacteria get most of our attention and research into antibiotics, the good bacteria is also important to your health. Explain the different types of bacteria with an illustrative video.
Amoeba Sisters
Natural Selection and the Bacterial Resistance
Biological fitness involves the number of offspring you produce and is not dependent on working out. The video explains natural selection using cartoon graphics of frogs on a log. Then it introduces evolution through antibiotic...
TED-Ed
What Causes Antibiotic Resistance?
There are ten times more bacteria cells than human cells in the average person, and while many of them are helpful, there are some that can be deadly. This video explores the on-going battle between people and these microscopic...
Curated OER
Microbial Universe - Part 2
Part two begins right where part one left off: discussing the potential for infections from microbes. Treatment of diseases is covered as well as the steps taken to prevent infection. New bacteria and viruses continue to develop, but not...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Producing Penicillin
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, follow two scientists and their Nobel Prize-winning efforts to cure bacterial infections using penicillin. [4:54]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Bacteria That Eat Antibiotics
Scientists discuss a group of bacterial living in soil that can consume both natural and synthetic antibiotic compounds as their sole source of carbon-based food.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
Explore how antibiotics help some sick people. Discover what happens when patients cut short their full course of antibiotic drugs.
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: Bacteria
A video investigating how bacteria affects other living organisms either positively or negatively. Teachers can visit Amoeba Sisters' website for a handout that goes along with video. [4:39]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Bacterial Armor Imaged, Down to the Details
Scientists discuss images of a bacterium that reveals a protective protein coat, and the potential applications of the research.
Cells Alive
How Penicillin Kills Bacteria
Photographs, a short QuickTime movie and accompanying text explain how penicillin kills bacteria. Try out the links to other sites about penicillin and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Penicillin Acting on Bacteria
The role of penicillin in the body. [0:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bread Mold Kills Bacteria
This video shows how penicillin in bread mold kills bacteria. [3:02]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Diction: The Origin of 'Antibiotic'
A Naval officer coined the term 'antibiotic' in 1860, to describe his opposition to beliefs in alien life.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Are Microbes Winning the Antibiotic Arms Race?
We're running out of antibiotics, and drug companies have little incentive to develop new ones. Can we save the ones we already have?