The sympathetic nervous system is what puts a person into fight or flight mode in scary situations. The 13th video in a series of 47  covers the autonomic nervous system, specifically how the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems work together. The narrator teachers their differences and explains how one is the fight or flight and the other is the resting and digesting, thus balancing each other and your body. 

Concepts

fibers, nerves, the spinal cord

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Have learners map out the central nervous system into its various parts — central, peripheral, autonomic, sympathetic, and parasympathetic — and list each one's functions
• Assign viewing the video as homework and discuss the autonomic nervous system the next day in class

Classroom Considerations

• The narrator speaks very quickly; turn on closed captioning while viewing to help viewers

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video can be viewed using closed captioning in 5 different languages
• Contains an abundance of information in a short amount of time and is easy to include in a lecture or presentation

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.9-10.2