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Professor Dave Explains
The Mechanism of Muscle Contraction: Sarcomeres, Action Potential, and the Neuromuscular Junction
We've learned about the types of muscle, including skeletal muscle, and we know then when these muscles contract, we are able to move our bodies around. But how exactly does this happen on the molecular level? There is an astonishing...
ProEdify
Understanding the Peripheral Nervous System: Structure and Functions
This video serves as an educational lesson on the peripheral nervous system (PNS). It covers the structure of the PNS, including its major subdivisions - sensory neurons and motor neurons.
ProEdify
The Essentials of the Nervous System: Functions and Structure
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the nervous system, covering its purpose, functions, and basic structure. The video highlights the three major functions of the nervous system: integrated functions, sensory functions, and...
Professor Dave Explains
The Autonomic Nervous System: Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Divisions
We've learned quite a bit about the peripheral nervous system, which has a sensory division and a motor division. The latter is the one that tells the body what to do, and this is divided into the somatic nervous system, which involves...
Professor Dave Explains
The Central Nervous Sytem: The Brain and Spinal Cord
The nervous system is extremely complicated, but we should definitely know the basics, so let's dive in! It is comprised of two main divisions, the central nervous system, and the peripheral nervous system. The first of these is made up...
Rock 'N Learn
Human body: Systems and Parts
Human Body for Kids engages young, inquisitive learners, while the depth of material gets older students ready for tests. Join Kevin and his friends to explore the systems and parts of the body.
Visual Learning Systems
Nervous and Endocrine Systems: Video Quiz
Students will learn the three main types of neurons and how they travel through the body's nerve network. Diagrams explain how information is received using our sensory organs and then processed by the central and peripheral nervous...
CTE Skills
HST-AP Introduction to the Cardiovascular System
The cardiovascular system, also known as the circulatory system, is the transportation system of the body. The major structures that make this possible are the heart, blood vessels and blood. Simply put, the heart pumps the blood in...
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...
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...
Curated Video
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,...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: All About Cells
Learn all about animal cells and plant cells with new, precise, yet easy-to-understand, definitions and explanations. Students will learn what cells are and why they are important to living things. They will also understand the parts of...
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,...