Teacher's Pet
Heat in Changes of State
Melting ice seems pretty easy, right? But what's actually happening is much more complex! Introduce the class to enthalpy calculations using a video tutorial. The narrator explains and performs the calculations that show the energy at...
National Science Foundation
Science of NFL Football: Nutrition, Hydration and Health
How does what you eat compare to an NFL football player? The final video in a 10-part series explains the nutrition requirements at the extreme level of an NFL player. The instructor explains the key nutrients and their nutritional...
Fuse School
Calorimeter
There is much more to calories than what you see on a nutrition label. The 34th lesson in a 35-part video series explains calories on a scientific level. The comprehensive video gives examples and shows how to measure calories of a given...
SciShow
Social Interaction and the 'Bliss Molecule'
Increased oxytocin helps people read facial expressions with greater accuracy. Video explores the way this hormone impacts social interactions and highlights the way scientists perform research to confirm the findings. Then the video...
SciShow
Why We Age - And How We Can Stop It
As we get older, we age, our bodies and minds deteriorate, but this isn't true of all species. The video begins with why we age and what biological processes cause aging. Then it covers research on worms, mice, and other animals that...
TED-Ed
What Is a Calorie?
Learners discover how we measure a healthy energy budget for our bodies with this educational video from TED-Ed. It reviews not only the definition of a calorie, but also such concepts as basal metabolic rate and how...
Curated OER
How to Read a Nutrition Label
Take a look down a grocery aisle and you will see nutrition labels on every can and box of food. Do you know how to read the labels? This video shows you briefly what a nutrition label looks like and a few of the elements listed on each...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Quantifying the Energy Associated With Everyday Things and Events
This lesson is about energy and how it manifests itself in every day things and events. In particular, the video focuses on quantification or estimation of energy. The main learning objectives are to: gain familiarity with units of...
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda: Making Healthy Choices Using the Nutrition Facts Label
Choosing a packaged food or beverage that's right for you is easier when you check out the Nutrition Facts label. It's designed to help you compare foods and make healthy choices. The label has four key sections that help you weigh your...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 2
In this video, Move It! cast members learn the importance of reading nutrition labels and what parts are most significant. [1:31]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 1
This video helps people of all ages read nutrition labels correctly. Pat Mizerak registered dietician at United Health Services, points out important things on a label such as serving size and calories. [1:38]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calories
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos provide practical and positive examples of healthy eating with an emphasis on calories. Students learn about how calories are used in digestion to turn into energy, but consuming too many calories means...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pyramid and Plate
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy interviews Food Pyramid, who tells him that he's retiring! But wait, there's a new food helper in town-- Food Plate! Students learn about the idea of the Food Plate, that divides the average meal...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Figuring Out Food Labels
Here is help in figuring out the information provided on food labels. Be sure you are getting the nutrition you need from the foods you eat.
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #22: The Physics of Heat
Have you ever wondered why we wear clothes? I mean, beyond the obvious. Why does wearing a jacket in the cold keep your warmer? What is happening to all the heat inside your body? In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Are All Calories Created Equal?
New research weighs in on the efficacy of several popular weight loss diets, and finds that it's not so much what you eat, but how much of it.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Calculo De Grasas Y Calorias
Learn about fat and calories. Links are provided for additional information as well.