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Instructional Video4:22
TED-Ed

What Is Fat?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
An animated fat molecule explains how some fats are beneficial and some are harmful. He describes triglyceride molecules and how the chemical bonding or overall shape determines the health value of each individual type of fat. This...
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Instructional Video2:07
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Fate of Fat

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Humans need fat for energy and nutrition, but how much is too much? A short animation shows the pathway of fat as it enters the body, breaks down through digestion, and travels for use or storage. Teaching tips offer multiple ways to...
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Instructional Video5:54
SciShow

The Deal with Fat

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Fats are essential to a balanced diet and help bodies use certain vitamins as well as maintain healthy skin and hair. While watching the video, learners explore fat, which is certainly talked about a lot in terms of health. The narrator...
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Instructional Video2:49
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

PPAR-gamma Activation in the Fat Cell

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Each human contains more than six times the number of fat cells than there are people on the planet. Scholars learn how fat cells work to absorb fat and release hormones through a short animation. They recognize the relationship between...
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Instructional Video3:01
American Chemical Society

The Cold Truth About Fat

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Our bodies store two types of fat: brown fat and white fat—and brown fats are actually efficient at burning calories! An episode of the ACS Reaction series compares exercise generating brown fat to shivering cold. It turns out 15 minutes...
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Instructional Video1:22
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Body Mass Index (BMI)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Know your number! Diabetes and heart disease both increase with higher body mass index numbers. Understanding the body mass index (BMI) helps scholars take control of their own health. They view a comparison of what various BMI...
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Activity2:09
PBS

Soul Food Junkies: Portions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Serve up a rate of percents. The Math at the Core resource investigates the percent of daily value of sodium and saturated fats in different foods. Pupils determine the number of serving sizes they eat of popular snack foods and...
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Instructional Video1:00
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Leptin Feedback Control System

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Hormones come from many parts of the body, including the hormone leptin produced by fat tissues. This in turn, controls each person's hunger levels. Interested nutritionists view the feedback loop relating food intake, hormone levels,...
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Instructional Video9:36
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Crash Course

Alkenes and Alkynes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What is the difference in alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes? How can you remember which is which? Viewers learn about naming rules, cis-trans isomerism, hydrogenation, halogenation, polymerization, and triglycerides from a short video that...
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Instructional Video4:33
TED-Ed

How to Spot a Fad Diet

For Students 7th - 12th
Learn how to separate the fat from the meat—the facts from the misinformation about diets—with a short video that offers guidelines for assessing diet regimens that offer long-term health benefits as opposed to short-term changes.  
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Instructional Video11:24
Bozeman Science

Anatomy and Physiology Introduction

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Muscle tissue is three times more efficient at burning calories than fat. Here is a video that explores how form fits function, introducing anatomy and physiology. The instructor then explores homeostasis, hierarchy associated with...
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Instructional Video4:06
SciShow

Life as a Sea Cow

For Students 9th - 12th
The sea cow, or manatee, is a gentle giant. The video focuses on this herbivore and its unique traits. Did you know they regrow teeth or that some have toenails on their flippers? They face challenges like a limited amount of fat to stay...
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Instructional Video8:20
SciShow

Weight Loss Pills: Fact Or Fiction?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Most over-the-counter weight loss pills have not been tested or even approved by the FDA. Learners see the truth behind weight loss pills and why many claims are false. The narrator begins by exploring prescription diet pills—fat...
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Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Chemistry of Fried Food

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Foods are fried in oils, which are basically a fat that is a liquid at room temperature. Another great video about the chemical reactions in cooking, this one explores frying food. The narrator explains that from the appearance of...
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Instructional Video1:36
PBS

Mardis Gras | All About the Holidays

For Students K - 5th
Masks, beads, king cakes, costumes, and parades: it's carnival! A short video details the history of the Fat Tuesday celebration scheduled the day before Ash Wednesday (March 5, 2019, February 25, 2020, etc.) Laissez les bons temps rouler! 
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Instructional Video9:59
Curated OER

Top 10 Worst Foods - Nutrition By Natalie

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here they are: the top 10 worst foods to eat, according to Natalie. Number 10 is fried catfish, followed by canned soup, bacon, fast-food hamburgers, commercially-baked goods, potato chips, hot dogs and lunch meats, French fries, donuts,...
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Instructional Video4:32
Curated OER

Health: Digestive System 101

For Students 9th - 12th
Colorful pictures and animation accompany a thorough explanation of the digestive process. Each anatomical part of the digestive system is explained as well as the chemical signals that are affiliated with digestion and absorption....
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Instructional Video1:04
Steve Spangler Science

Color Changing Milk - Sick Science! #018

For Teachers 5th - 10th
This visually vibrant activity demonstrates what happens when dish soap weakens the bonds that hold fats and proteins suspended in milk. Perhaps you can have chemistry lab groups perform this activity when they are learning about...
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Instructional Video1:10
Curated OER

Counting Numbers 1 - 10

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The littlest learners will love counting along with this sing-song video. They can sing and count 10 fat sheep as they appear on the screen. A great way to reinforce counting skills, number sense, and number recognition in children ages...
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Instructional Video5:08
Fuse School

Fats and Oils (Plant Oils)

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Sow the seeds of knowledge with a short video about plant oils! Science scholars discover the methods people use to extract oils from olives, coconuts, and flowers. The narrator also explains the chemical structures of these oils and why...
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Instructional Video2:08
Bite Sci-zed

Saturated vs. Unsaturated Fats

For Teachers 7th - 11th Standards
What are good fats and bad fats? Learn about the structure and function of lipids and how that relates to carbon bonding. Scholars explore the structural differences between saturated and unsaturated fats and examine relevant examples...
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Instructional Video5:33
Khan Academy

Adding numbers with different signs (example)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Explaining the concept of adding integers with different signs can become confusing. Use this video to provide students with a clear and explicit demonstration of how negative and positive numbers are added together. Sal uses a number...
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Instructional Video1:17
MinutePhysics

The Sound of Hydrogen

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Hydrogen is odorless, colorless, and tasteless, but can we hear it? By taking the wavelengths of the atomic spectrum of radiation from hydrogen, the creator of the video shifts the waves into sound waves. Then, he shifts these waves into...
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Instructional Video4:49
TED-Ed

How Does Hibernation Work?

For Students 3rd - 12th Standards
Did you know animals hibernate all around the world, even in the deserts and tropical rain forests? How do these animals reach extreme body temperatures and undergo a decreased heart rate that would be deadly to non-hibernating animals?...

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