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Oxygen’s Surprisingly Complex Journey Through Your Body Instructional VideoOxygen’s Surprisingly Complex Journey Through Your Body Instructional Video
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Oxygen’s Surprisingly Complex Journey Through Your Body

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What does digestion have to do with aerobic respiration? Watch a video that explains the processes and systems in our bodies that allow oxygen to travel throughout.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

aerobic respiration, oxygen, hemoglobin, digestion, alveoli, capillaries, breathing, human body systems

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have viewers write the steps in which oxygen travels through the body as they watch 

Classroom Considerations

  • Best used in a biology unit on the human body
  • Viewers should have background knowledge in each of the systems that helps oxygen travel through the body

Pros

  • Comes with links for researching further, discussion questions, and a quiz
  • Cartoons support the narrator's explanation of the topic

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.9-10.4 RST.9-10.5 RST.11-12.4

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