Nurb is selling tongues. He pitches his product by showing all of the amazing tasks it can perform. Cute cartoon characters, colorful animation, and preteen-appealing humor make this clip a "terrific tool for tasteful teaching." (How's...

In the setting of a variety show, Nurb sings onstage about human teeth. He goes through the progression of how they grow, when they are lost, and when wisdom teeth come in. He chirps about the different types of teeth and what roles they...

Break down the digestive system for your class. This webpage features a video, but also includes an article to read, an interactive assessment, and printables! Through the publisher's website, there are even individual videos about the...

You'll be entertained and informed by this video on the digestive system.

What is Celiac disease? This video covers the known pathophysiology, as well as important clinical signs and symptoms. [9:07]

Behind every fart (and poop) is an army of gut bacteria undergoing some crazy (and crazy useful) biochemistry. Learn what they have in common with beer brewing, and why we'd want to know about this science anyway. [4:53]

Get an overview of three of the key macromolecules of life (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), and how they get digested and absorbed.

We'll learn about new studies that take a census of just what lives inside your gut. Recent research indicates that the human intestines may be home to over 5,600 different bacterial species and strains.

This lesson will identify the major structures and functions of the digestive system. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Digestive System Overview."

This lesson will describe the structure, including the four layers, of the digestive tract. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Layers of the Alimentary Canal."

A great little movie that follows your food from the time you eat it onward through your digestive system. Good basic information. From KidsHealth.

Beneath your ribs, you'll find, among other things, the pancreas -- an organ that works a lot like a personal health coach. This video explains how this organ controls your sugar levels and produces a special juice that releases the...

Nachos are great - if you are among the lucky ones whose body can digest them. When digestion goes according to plan, the small intestine performs most of your chemical digestion in the duodenum, while accessory organs including the...

A video that discusses the 11 organ system of the human body. Learn some basic information about the circulatory, digestive, endocrine, excretory, integumentary, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, and skeleton...

Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis St. Martin was shot in the stomach. He was saved by local army doctor William Beaumont, but had to live out his remaining years with a gaping hole in the stomach -- allowing Beaumont to learn a lot about how...

We have learned over the past few weeks that gases have real-life constraints on how they move here in the non-ideal world. As with most things in chemistry (and also in life) how a gas moves is more complex than it at first appears. In...

There's a factory inside you that weighs about 1.4 kilograms and runs for 24 hours a day. It's your liver: the heaviest organ in your body, which simultaneously acts as a storehouse, a manufacturing hub, and a processing plant. This...

Nachos are delicious. And versatile because today they're also going to help us learn a thing or two about your digestive system. Nachos can provide us with energy and raw materials, by first ingesting something nutritious, propelling it...