Scholars learn how a vitamin deficiency causes blindness and death, while an overdose of the same vitamin also leads to death. Veritasium travels the world to research the role of vitamins in our lives, the best advice for taking or avoiding them, and shares the results in an episode of its larger playlist.

Concepts

vitamins, healthy habits, nutrients

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Research how common vitamin deficiencies are in your area
• Discuss the safety and standards required of vitamins, as they vary by country

Classroom Considerations

• Entire video is an advertisement for a documentary by the same producer

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Easy to implement in a traditional or flipped classroom
• Relates to products a variety of stores sell and that doctors recommend
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4