Professor Dave Explains
The Muscular System
Now that we know about muscle tissue, let's see how this is arranged to form the muscular system, the incredible network of muscles that covers the skeletal system so that it can pull on bones and allow us to move around at will. There...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About The Human Skeletal and Muscular Systems
In this video, the speaker discusses the functions of the skeletal system, the different types of bones in the body, and the role of muscles in movement. They explain how bones protect organs, produce blood cells, and store minerals,...
Visual Learning Systems
Healthy Skeletal and Muscular Systems: Your Muscular System
Action-oriented footage highlights the nature and care of the skeletal and muscular systems. The processes by which these systems work together to help us move are discussed. Specific things we can do to maintain these systems in a...
Nemours KidsHealth
How the Body Works: Muscles
Viewers visit the gym where two kids and a body-building adult are working out. The characters discuss three types of muscles: smooth, cardiac, and skeletal. With middle school humor, colorful animation, and clear information, viewers...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Meet My Muscles Upper Body
Following along with their teacher, students learn about the various upper body muscles we have such as the bicep and pectoral muscles and learn how to give them a good stretch and exercise.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Meet My Muscles Lower Body
This 3rd through 5th grade video depicts students following along with their teacher to learn about lower body muscles. Students learn about muscles such as the gluteal and hamstring and how to give them a good stretch and exercise.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Muscular System: Lesson 2
This lesson will introduce the structure and function of the bodies muscular system including the three types of muscle. It is 2 of 6 in the series titled "Muscular System."
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #31: Big Guns the Muscular System
Hank tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax. [12:52]
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #21: Muscles, Part 1 Muscle Cells
We're kicking off our exploration of muscles with a look at the complex and important relationship between actin and myosin. Your smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles create movement by contracting and releasing in a process called the...
Amoeba Sisters
Amoeba Sisters: The 11 Human Organ Systems
A video that discusses the 11 organ system of the human body. Learn some basic information about the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, excretory, integumentary, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, and skeleton...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Healthy Lifestyle: 11 Major Muscle Groups
This quick video goes over 11 major muscle groups in the body. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [4:21]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Muscular System
Paul Andersen explains the three types of muscle found in humans: striated, smooth and cardiac muscle. He explains how actin and myosin interact to contract the sarcomere in a muscle. The sliding filament theory explains how ATP and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Big Guns: The Muscular System
Hank tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax. [12:10]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Type 1 and Type 2 Muscle Fibers
Skeletal muscle fibers can be categorized into two types: slow-twitch (Type I) and fast-twitch (Type II). Type I muscle fibers are more efficient over long periods of time. They are mainly used for postural maintenance (such has holding...
AsapSCIENCE
Asap Science: The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth
What if I told you that superhuman strength may be possible in the near future? [3:19]