Visual Learning Systems
Moving Muscles and Bones: Body Organization
Upon viewing the Moving Muscles and Bones video series, students will be able to do the following: Differentiate between cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. Provide examples of organs and organ systems in the body. Understand that...
Visual Learning Systems
Healthy Nervous and Endocrine Systems: Common Problems of the Nervous System
This program explores the essential components and functions of the nervous system while also investigating the endocrine system. The following parts of the nervous system are illustrated through colorful graphics: brain, spinal cord,...
Visual Learning Systems
The Amazing Nervous System: the Human Nervous System
From skiing down a steep mountain, to playing the piano, the nervous system enables us to accomplish remarkable tasks. This video focuses on the amazing structures in the nervous system that allows humans to maintain and carry out a wide...
Mazz Media
Brain and Nervous System
In this program viewers will learn about the three key components of the nervous system -- the brain, spinal cord and nerves -- all made up of special cells called neurons that transmit electrical impulses throughout the body. They'll...
Visual Learning Systems
Healthy Nervous and Endocrine Systems: the Nervous System
This program explores the essential components and functions of the nervous system while also investigating the endocrine system. The following parts of the nervous system are illustrated through colorful graphics: brain, spinal cord,...
Curated Video
Nerve agent Novichok - how it breaks down the body
LEADIN:
Chemical experts say the nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy and his daughter behaves differently to those previously used and is in a class of substances deadlier than similar chemicals like sarin or...
Curated Video
A rare look at the space shuttle's successor Space Launch System
The space shuttle programme may have ended three years ago but now NASA is making progress on its successor -- the Space Launch System, or SLS.
In New Orleans, engineers have started to weld sections of the massive heavy-lift rocket --...
Curated Video
Nerve agent Novichok - how it breaks down the body
LEADIN:
Chemical experts say the nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy and his daughter behaves differently to those previously used and is in a class of substances deadlier than similar chemicals like sarin or...
Curated Video
Breakthrough Device Could Ease Deep Depression
A very small group of just several hundred Americans is trying an at-home medical treatment involving electrical stimulation of part of the brain.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Advanced prosthetic arms developed by Pentagon set for sale
Veteran amputees are set to be the first beneficiaries of futuristic prosthetic arms which can grasp an object as fragile as an egg or as small as a grape
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : EU needs years long Russia strategy new leader warns
CLEAN : EU needs years long Russia strategy new leader warns
TED-Ed
How Do Nerves Work?
This lesson won't get on your nerves! Find out how one kind of cell can cause comfort, terror, or pain in your brain. Comic strip and cartoon style animation is used to help explain the transmission of electrical nerve impulses and the...
Curated OER
Endocrine System and Hormones
Paul Andersen compares your endocrine system to Facebook and your nervous system to Gmail in order to show the differences in response time. He then delves into specifics of your endocrine system, talking about hormones that are water...
Scholastic
Study Jams! The Nervous System
Get your class thinking with animations of neurons in action and explanations of how stimuli is transported and processed. This film makes an ideal introduction or review of the nervous system. The parts of the brain and what they...
TED-Ed
The Cockroach Beatbox
A neuroscientist explains, with the aid of creative and colorful animation and an actual cockroach leg, how the brain transmits and receives electrical messages. He uses electricity to cause the cockroach leg to move. This top-notch...
SciShow
Why We Have Pain, & How We Kill It
You'll be feeling no pain when you add this little video to your lesson on the the integumentary system, nervous system, or biochemistry. The star of the show lectures on the process of sensing pressure and pain, as well as on the...
Curated OER
How the Body Works: The Brain
The video displays a diagram of the nervous system and the dialogue is a telephone conversation about how it works. While it is not particularly engaging, there are plenty of related resources that make this quite a find! From within the...
TED-Ed
How Do Pain Relievers Work?
Practically everyone experiences physical pain from time to time (although, believe it or not, some people don't). Often, people take a pill and then et it work its magic; learn exactly what that magic is through an engaging and...
Curated OER
Urinary System Structure and Function
Watch a lecture and presentation of the urinary system's structures and functions. This is a basic overview of the system, giving scientific explanations as an outline is shown on the screen. Help your biologists become familiar with the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Sympathetic Nervous System
Host Hank Green tries not to stress you out too much as he delves into the functions and terminology of your sympathetic nervous system. [10:43]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Parasympathetic Nervous System
This week we are looking at your parasympathetic division, which is the "resting and digesting" unit of your nervous system. Unfortunately, learning about this de-stressing division also involves a whole lot of memorization. Don't worry,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: The Nervous System, Part 2: Action! Potential!
What do you and a sack of batteries have in common? Hank explains in this episode. [11:43]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Autonomic Nervous System
Take a tour of the two-part autonomic nervous system. This episode explains how your sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system work together as foils, balancing each other out. Their key anatomical differences-where...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nervous System and Contractions: Lesson 1
This lesson will investigate the role of the nervous system in muscle contractions. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Nervous System and Contractions."