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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Size Analogies of Bacteria and Viruses

For Students 9th - 10th
Comparisons of bacteria and viruses with standard cells. [1:43]
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Next Vista for Learning

Next Vista for Learning: Bacteria Defending the Body

For Students 3rd - 8th
A video showing a white blood cell defending the body against a virus. Also learn that red blood cells function to bring oxygen throughout the body. [1:35]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Discovery of Penicillin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey tells the story of researcher Sir Alexander Fleming, whose luck and scientific reasoning led to the groundbreaking discovery of penicillin. [4:45]
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Glo Germ

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is there a way to avoid spreading germs to our friends and families? Come along with Jordan and Sydney as they research this topic.
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Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Viral Replication

For Students 9th - 10th
Paul Andersen explains how viruses reproduce using the lytic cycle. He also shows how viruses can pick up new genetic material and how retroviruses (like HIV) can enter into the lytic cycle. He also describes the lysogenic cycle and how...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bubonic Plague

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about bubonic plague and how city officials in San Francisco tried to contain its spread in the early 1900s. [5:06]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: Public Health

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets connects public health to the availability of clean and safe drinking water and elaborates on the threats our bodies face due to increasing kinds and quantities of pollutants.
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Kurzgesagt

You Tube: Kurzgesagt: Why You Are Still Alive the Immune System

For Students 9th - 10th
Every second of your life you are under attack. Bacteria, viruses, spores and more living stuff wants to enter your body and use its resources for itself. The immune system is a powerful army of cells that fights like a T-Rex on speed...
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Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Immune System

For Students 9th - 10th
Paul Andersen explains how your body protects itself from invading viruses and bacteria. He starts by describing the nonspecific immune responses of skin and inflammation. He then explains how we use antibodies to disrupt the function of...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Pneumonia?

For Students 9th - 10th
Pneumonia is a medical condition where lung tissue becomes inflamed, usually caused by a virus or bacteria. Learn how shortness of breath, cough, and fever are common symptoms of this condition and why they occur in pneumonia.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Producing Penicillin

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, follow two scientists and their Nobel Prize-winning efforts to cure bacterial infections using penicillin. [4:54]
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California Academy of Sciences

Ca Academy of Sciences: Cow Power

For Students 3rd - 8th
Why not use micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungus, etc.) to create sustainable energy and fuel? There are a lot of ideas currently being researched and put to use including turning cow manure into natural gas. [4:43]
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Cholera: Domesticating Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how scientists are beginning to predict patterns of disease transmission and levels of virulence. Explore how society can steer the evolution of microorganisms to weaken them.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how antibiotics help some sick people. Discover what happens when patients cut short their full course of antibiotic drugs.

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