Sophia Learning
Sophia: Microbes: Viruses
A look into a small nonliving object called viruses. This site contains an audio explanantion of the basic structure and function of a virus. Also shown is a picture of a virus. [0:57]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Size Analogies of Bacteria and Viruses
Comparisons of bacteria and viruses with standard cells. [1:43]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Double Immunity
Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute discovers a 700-year-old mutation that makes a person resistant to HIV infection. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."
Other
Welsh Government Hwb: Meet the Malwares
This resource will develop learners' awareness and knowledge of malware and the associated dangers it has. It will also highlight the impact that content piracy and viruses have on the creative industries. Students will learn about the...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Glo Germ
Is there a way to avoid spreading germs to our friends and families? Come along with Jordan and Sydney as they research this topic.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cholera: Domesticating Disease
Discover how scientists are beginning to predict patterns of disease transmission and levels of virulence. Explore how society can steer the evolution of microorganisms to weaken them.
PBS
Nova Labs: Virus Wars
All cellular life, including you, is in an ancient and unending war with viruses. Watch how viruses attack cells and learn about RNA interference, one of the ways that cells fight back. [3:33]
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.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science Behind the News: Influenza & Flu Vaccines
The biology of a flu virus, how it is spread, how it manifests itself in the human body, and how to protect oneself through vaccination and preventative practices are explained. [4:02]
Federal Trade Commission
On Guard Online: Protect Your Computer From Malware
Learn about malware effects on your computer with this short video. Understand how to avoid, identify and get rid of malicious software. The video is accompanied by a transcript and can be downloaded as well. [3:47]
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: Viruses
Did you know that a virus needs host to be able to reproduce itself? In this video learn the characteristics of viruses including the structure of the virus, how it reproduces, and some examples. [7:37]
Other
You Tube: Flu Attack! How a Virus Invades Your Body
Animated video from NPR explains how viruses trick a single cell in your body into multiplying thus spreading the disease. [3:40]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Viruses: Flu Attack! How a Virus Invades Your Body
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] See how a viral infection works in the human body, as it tricks the host cell into making millions of copies of the virus. [3:40]
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Chapter 1: What Should You Accept?
Chapter 1 of The Adventures of Kara, Winston and the SMART Crew is a video (3:35) discussing the dangers of accepting messages that could be dangerous viruses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subviral Particles: Viroids and Prions
A video reviewing over the nonliving particles that are smaller than viruses known as subviral particles. [5:01]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Virus Wars
A video exploring how all cellular life is a war with viruses that started a long time ago! Learn how viruses attack cells and how cells fight back including using RNA interference. Video also explains how to play the virtual RNA game at...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Virus Structure and Classification
A video exploring how viruses are good about being hackers! Look at the properties of viruses that make them unique. [11:04]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spillover Zika, Ebola & Beyond: Part 8: Dodging Bullets
The highly contagious and pandemic nature of Ebola was exposed in 2014, when an infected US diplomat flew from Liberia to Nigeria, exposing dozens of passerby and doctors along the way. Contact tracing and quarantine can contain an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spillover Zika, Ebola & Beyond: Part 7: A New Foe Emerges Nipah
In 1988 Southeast Asia faced it's own battle with Nipah, a fruit bat-borne disease that kills more than three quarters of those infected. Nipah is only contracted in Bangladesh between the months of December and March, and this was a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spillover Zika, Ebola & Beyond: Part 5: Contact Tracing
Find out why contact tracing is such a crucial part of controlling outbreaks of infectious disease. Tracing back to patient zero during the West African Ebola outbreak shed light on Ebola's zoonotic origins and rapid spread. Contact...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spillover Zika, Ebola & Beyond: Part 9: The Predict Project
See Jonna Mazet's innovative PREDICT Project in action. PREDICT is a worldwide effort to use animal surveillance to monitor viruses, proactively preventing and containing outbreaks of infectious disease by identitifying points of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spillover Zika, Ebola & Beyond: Part 6: Zika Transmission
Zika, unlike Ebola, is less commonly spread by human-to-human contact. Instead, mosquitos are the root cause. Brazil has recently implemented mosquito controls to prevent the transmission of several viral diseases, including Zika. As the...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A Virus That Affects Caterpillar Behavior
An audio lecture on how a virus known as baculovirus infecting caterpillars changes their behavior which is advantageous to the spread of the virus. Learn that when the gypsy moth caterpillars become infected they climb for treetops. At...