Instructional Video
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.
Instructional Video
University of Utah

University of Utah: learn.genetics: What Is a Protein?

9th - 10th
This video provides insight on the human protein. Content explores what a protein is, how they work, and how they are made.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Life?

9th - 10th
Defining life is harder than it seems. This video explains four key qualities that all living things possess: Metabolism, Homeostasis, Reproduction, and Adaptation. DNA plays a crucial role in all of these qualities. [10:24]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Seafood Shanty Sing a Long

1st - 4th
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, the vegetables sing a song about the different types of seafood, and students learn that seafood comes in a variety of forms and can be a great source of protein. [1:26]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: P Is for Protein

1st - 4th
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos and related lesson plan provide an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on protein. Using these materials, students will understand the role of protein in their health...
Instructional Video
PBS

Nova Labs: The Rna Enigma

9th - 10th
RNA is a wonder molecule that can answer some of the biggest mysteries in biology. But what exactly is RNA, and how can you help discover its secrets just by playing a game? [3:23]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course A&p #36: Metabolism and Nutrition, Part 1

9th - 10th
Metabolism is a complex process that has a lot more going on than personal trainers and commercials might have you believe. Today we are exploring some of its key parts, including vital nutrients -- such as water, vitamins, minerals,...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Biology #3: Biological Molecules You Are What You Eat

9th - 10th
Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat. [14:09]
Instructional Video
Amoeba Sisters

Amoeba Sisters: Biomolecules

9th - 10th
Learn all about carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids and the monomers that build them up! Also get some fun mnemonics for remembering important parts of the monomers. [7:30]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: A Decade After the Genome, Scientists Map the Proteome

9th - 10th
Nearly all the body's cells contain identical DNA. So why does a neuron grow up so differently than a liver cell? Proteins, says Akhilesh Pandey, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Enzymes

9th - 10th
This narrated screencast explains the role enzymes play in cellular metabolism. [4:42]
Instructional Video
PBS

Nova Labs: Protein Synthesis in the Cellular Factory

9th - 10th
Your cells contain an amazing factory that builds the RNA and protein machines that keep you alive. Learn how this factory works and what the relationship is between DNA, RNA, and proteins. [3:48]
Instructional Video
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Using Small Molecules to Modulate a Protein

9th - 10th
This video illustrates how a small molecule binds to a protein. As a result of the binding, the protein alters its shape and becomes inactivated. [1:10]
Instructional Video
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Diversity of Small Molecules

9th - 10th
In this animation, a molecular menagerie of small molecules is displayed, with two particular molecules singled out for attention: rapamycin and furrowstatin. [1:57]
Instructional Video
Other

Rcsb Protein Data Bank: What Is a Protein?

9th - 10th
Proteins play countless roles throughout the biological world, from catalyzing chemical reactions to building the structures of all living things. Learn about the 3D shape and function of macromolecules. [3:38]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ingredients for Life: Carbon

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA illustrates why carbon is at the center of life on Earth. It also asks whether carbon-based life might exist on other planets. [1:38]
Instructional Video
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learn Genetics: What Are Proteins?

9th - 10th
Proteins are the workhorses of our bodies. Investigate what proteins are made of and their functions.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biological Molecules You Are What You Eat

9th - 10th
Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat. [13:45]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Tertiary Structure of Proteins

9th - 10th
Did you know the structure of proteins can determine function of the proteins? This video reviews over the different order of proteins from primary to tertiary. Video will focus on the tertiary structure of proteins and how side chain...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Uniporters, Symporters and Antiporters

9th - 10th
Uniporters, symporters, and antiporters are proteins that are used in the transport of substances across a cell membrane. This video describes how each of these works in the transport process. [7:13]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Career Profile: Chemist and Biologist Catherine Drennan

9th - 10th
Meet Professor Cathy Drennan, whose research focuses on a protein inside microorganisms and how it converts carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that accelerates climate change, into energy.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Nutrition and Health: Lesson 1

9th - 10th
This lesson will look at the effect that diet and exercise have on normal body functions. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Nutrition and Health."
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Proteins: Lesson 8

9th - 10th
This lesson will describe the levels of protein structure as well as define the role of proteins in your body. It is 8 of 9 in the series titled "Proteins."