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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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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 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 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 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 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 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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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 Video3:32
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

How We Get Our Skin Color Interactive

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
I can see your epidermis. A short video shows how we get our skin color. It explains how melanocyte cells in the epidermis produce melanin, and that the type and amount of melanin controls skin color.
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Instructional Video11:05
Crash Course

Digestive System (Part 1)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The stomach can hold 1.5 liters of food, which remains there for two to three hours in order for digestion to complete. The 33rd video in a series of 47 covers the process of digestion. Classes learn why digestion occurs, about the...
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Instructional Video2:08
MinuteEarth

What is Skin For?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Smooth or scaly, skin is sensational! Besides keeping us from being gooey, what does it do? Pupils embark on an integumentary investigation with a short video about skin. Topics include the special features of skin cells, how skin...

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