Catalyst University
Blood Supply to the Knee & Lower Leg
In this video, we discuss the blood supply to the knee and lower leg along with any relevant muscles that are supplied.
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Blood Vessels
This video explains the three main types of blood vessels - arteries, veins, and capillaries - and their functions in the body. Blood and Circulation part 4/9
Mazz Media
Blood Vessels
This live-action video program is about blood vessels. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
Scholastic
Study Jams! The Circulatory System
The topic of this video is sure to get hearts pumping! Mia and Zoe just finish racing and discuss what is going on in the circulatory system. They expound on the capillaries, veins, arteries, the structure of the heart, and the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
How a Heart Attack Occurs
Heart disease causes more deaths in both men and women in the United States than any other factor, buy many people don't fully understand what causes a heart attack. A brief animation demonstrates the slow buildup of plaque, a blockage...
TED-Ed
What Happens During a Stroke?
A stroke can severely impact a patients' speech, motor skills, and quality of life—if they survive the event in the first place. Learn what happens to the brain during a stroke, and how you can help if someone you see is experiencing a...
Crash Course
The Heart – Under Pressure (Part 1)
Use the 25th video in the series of 47 to learn about the human heart, its structure, and function. The narrator teaches about the atria, ventricles, blood pressure, arteries, and veins.
Crash Course
Blood Vessels – Form and Function (Part 1)
Did you know that blood vessels can constrict or expand in response to extreme weather? The 27th video in a series of 47 about the human body viewers learn interesting facts about blood vessels. The narrator goes over the three layers of...
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
Circulation
A model of a torso in a high school classroom is displayed while the teacher points out various arteries going from the heart to the GI tract and down to the legs. She then looks at the veins coming back up and some superficial vessels....
Curated OER
Types of Blood Vessels
The functions of the various blood vessels are explicated quickly in this one-minute animated video. Quiz your young biologists on anatomy and show them this video after they have attempted to answer what the functions of the three types...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Changing the Pv Loop: Getting Ea From the Pv Loop
Find out how to use the PV loop to draw the Ea (Arterial Elastance) line, and what it represents. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [11:21]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: The Heart, Part 1: Under Pressure
Your heart gets a lot of attention from poets, songwriters, and storytellers, but today we'll learn how it really works. The heart's ventricles, atria, and valves create a pump that maintains both high and low pressure to circulate blood...
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Circulatory System
This short movie gives you a fun way to learn the basics of the heart and how the circulatory system works. From KidsHealth.
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #25: The Heart, Part 1 Under Pressure
Your heart gets a lot of attention from poets, songwriters, and storytellers, but today Hank's gonna tell you how it really works. The heart's ventricles, atria, and valves create a pump that maintains both high and low pressure to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arterial Stiffness: Compliance and Elastance
In this video lecture, learn about compliance (and elastance) of arteries, veins, and lead pipes! [9:55]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Blood Vessels: Arteries, Arterioles, Venules, and Veins
Learn the differences between these blood vessels! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [7:43]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arterial Stiffness: Compliance Increased Blood Flow
Learn how compliant arteries allows for a "Constant Pressure System" like a modern water gun! [6:04]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arterial Stiffness: Stored Elastic Energy in Arteries
See how arteries behave like sling shots, shooting blood (not rocks) onwards! [6:21]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arterial Stiffness: Compliance Decreased Blood Pressure
Find out how compliance allows arteries to store elastic energy (and lower pressure). [9:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Blood Vessels: Layers of a Blood Vessel
Remember the three key layers of a blood vessel (Tunica intima, Tunica media, and Tunica externa) and how arteries, veins, and capillaries are all different from one another. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cardiovascular System Overview: Lesson 1
This lesson will identify the main structures and function of the cardiovascular system as one of the 11 organ systems of the human body. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Cardiovascular System."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arteriosclerosis, Arteriolosclerosis, and Atherosclerosis
Learn the difference between Arteriosclerosis, Arteriolosclerosis, and Atherosclerosis. [9:17]