Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Tropomyosin and Troponin

9th - 10th
An explanation of muscle contraction with tropomyosin and troponin. [9:22]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Heart Muscle Contraction: Three Types of Muscle

9th - 10th
Find out what makes smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and skeletal muscle similar and different from one another. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Muscles, Part 1: Muscle Cells

9th - 10th
We're kicking off our exploration of muscles with a look at the complex and important relationship between actin and myosin. Your smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles create movement by contracting and releasing in a process called the...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course A&p #22: Muscles, Part 2 Organismal Level

9th - 10th
Hank calls in a friend to do his push ups for him today to explain how skeletal muscles work together to create and reverse movements. Hank and Claire also demonstrate the role size plays in motor units, the three phase cycle of muscle...
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Muscle Contractions: Macro View

9th - 10th
A narrated tutorial illustrating how skeletal muscles contract to allow the body to move. [3:44]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Musculoskeletal System: Le Bron Asks: What Muscles Do We Use?

9th - 10th
LeBron James asks Sal Khan about which muscles we use when we shoot a basket. [3:14]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Calcium Puts Myosin to Work

9th - 10th
This video shows exactly how Calcium binds Troponin-C and allows Myosin to do some work. [10:02]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Muscle Building and Steroids

9th - 10th
This lesson will describe the effects that exercise and steroids have on your muscles. It is 1 of 2 similar lessons.