TED-Ed
How the Heart Actually Pumps Blood
Let your heart rejoice! A unique video explains in detail how the heart works to transport blood throughout the human body. Use it during your human body unit, and then discuss the accompanying comprehension questions as a review of the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
How a Heart Attack Occurs
Heart disease causes more deaths in both men and women in the United States than any other factor, buy many people don't fully understand what causes a heart attack. A brief animation demonstrates the slow buildup of plaque, a blockage...
Curated OER
Circulation
A model of a torso in a high school classroom is displayed while the teacher points out various arteries going from the heart to the GI tract and down to the legs. She then looks at the veins coming back up and some superficial vessels....
Bozeman Science
Circulatory System
The average person's heart beats about three billion times during their lifetime. In this circulatory system video, learners briefly see the difference between an open and closed circulatory system. The rest of the video focuses on the...
American Chemical Society
What Happens to Your Body When You Die?
Your heart may not be pumping, but there are still many chemical reactions that continue in your body. An installment of a video series on chemical reactions describes the decomposition process of our bodies after death. It pays...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Heart Introduction: Flow Through the Heart
Learn how blood flows through the heart, and understand the difference between systemic and pulmonary blood flow. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: The Heart, Part 1: Under Pressure
Your heart gets a lot of attention from poets, songwriters, and storytellers, but today we'll learn how it really works. The heart's ventricles, atria, and valves create a pump that maintains both high and low pressure to circulate blood...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Blood Vessels, Part 1: Form and Function
We begin our look at how blood gets around your body. In this episode, we look at the basic three-layer structure of your blood vessels. We review how those structures differ slightly in different types of vessels. We will also follow...
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #25: The Heart, Part 1 Under Pressure
Your heart gets a lot of attention from poets, songwriters, and storytellers, but today Hank's gonna tell you how it really works. The heart's ventricles, atria, and valves create a pump that maintains both high and low pressure to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Circulatory and Respiratory System: Circulatory System and Heart
Introduction to the circulatory system and the heart. [14:56]
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Video: Human Heart
A video showing an animation of a virtual heart pumping to allow students to see the heart in action. [0:51]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fetal Circulation: Umbilical Vessels and the Ductus Venosus
Watch as fetal blood goes through umbilical vessels and takes a shortcut through the Ductus Venosus to make it back to the heart. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [12:43]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fetal Circulation: Foramen Ovale and Ductus Arteriosus
Watch how the fetal heart allows blood to simply bypass the lungs altogether using the Foramen Ovale and the Ductus Arteriosus! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Eisenmenger Syndrome?
Learn about Eisenmenger's syndrome when blood in the heart shunts from right-to-left due to increased pressure in the right ventricle. [10:01]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Einsenmenger Coarctation of Aorta
Learn about Einsenmenger coarctation of aorta, a long-term complication of an unrepaired heart defect. [4:41]
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Circulatory System
This short movie gives you a fun way to learn the basics of the heart and how the circulatory system works. From KidsHealth.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Video: Mechanism of Veins
A video showing an animation of how the one-way valves in veins work to push blood towards the heart. [0:19]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Ventricle Fibrillation (Vfib)?
Ventricular fibrillation (also referred to as VF or v-fib) is a fatal cardiac rhythm that occurs when the lower chambers of the heart (ventricles) lose the ability to contract and circulate blood to the rest of the body. V-fib results in...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Human Body Videos: Circulatory System
Narrated animation showing how the heart and the circulatory system transport blood throughout the body. (Length: 1 min. 8 sec.)