Instructional Video4:52
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli

Pre-K - Higher Ed
When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain. So which foods cause you to feel so tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia...
Instructional Video11:00
TED Talks

Kristie Ebi: How climate change could make our food less nutritious

12th - Higher Ed
Rising carbon levels in the atmosphere can make plants grow faster, but there's another hidden consequence: they rob plants of the nutrients and vitamins we need to survive. In a talk about global food security, epidemiologist Kristie...
Instructional Video12:08
Professor Dave Explains

Animal Ecology (Fauna) Part 1: Food Acquisition and Body Temperature

12th - Higher Ed
With plants covered, let's talk about animals, or fauna, in the context of ecology. What do animals need to survive? How do they acquire food? How do they maintain their body temperature? Let's talk all about nutrients and minerals,...
Instructional Video6:23
msvgo

Mineral Requirements of Plants

K - 12th
It describes the need for mineral nutrition in plants, lists the criteria for essentiality of an element and classifies the minerals required by plants as macro and micronutrients.
Instructional Video4:16
Curated Video

Digestive System

K - 8th
In this live-action program viewers will learn that the digestive system is

a group of organs working together to convert food into energy and nutrients to allow the body to function, grow and repair
it.
Students will come...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Growth and Metabolism: Digesting Food

9th - 10th
Get an overview of three of the key macromolecules of life (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), and how they get digested and absorbed.