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Kids Living With Food Allergies
Food allergies can begin at a very young age. The kids in these videos talk about living with their food allergies. Some allergens include peanuts, strawberries, eggs, and shellfish. What a fantastic video to watch with your class to...
Curated OER
How A Virus Invades Your Body
This simplified explanation is an entertaining way to see how viruses reproduce in the human body. Brilliant animation and humorous commentary will keep your junior high class engaged while they observe the basics about viruses. Follow...
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Back-to-School With Food Allergies
At the elementary school highlighted in this video, administrators work hard to eliminate allergic reactions to various types of food. This is an eye-opening video that is important for cafeterias in all schools. Do your students have...
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3D Medical Animation: Antibody Immune Response
Enhance your science lesson on the immune system with this short video. It presents a 3D-animation of an antibody immune response. This is a great video to watch multiple times: all the way through, and then again while pausing and...
Curated OER
Food Allergies Truth
Food allergies are common amongst human beings. In this video, Dr. Vincent Bellonzi goes in-depth about food allergies and being tested for them. Check this video out for some great information!
Curated OER
Why? Tell Me Why!: Allergies
During the springtime or after playing with your friend's cat, you may be wondering why you have an itchy nose and throat. Amongst other symptoms, you may be reacting to allergies. In this video, a professional describes why someone...
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How the Body Works: The Lymphatic System
Begin to show the workings of the lymphatic system with this video. Right when the narrator gets to the lymph nodes though, the video unfortunately cuts off mid-sentence. Use the video to show the connection between the lymphatic system...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hiv Immunity
Although repeatedly exposed to HIV, Steve Crohn's blood cells were never infected. Dr. David Ho investigates in this video segment from NOVA: "Surviving AIDS."
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Human Body Videos: Immune System
Watch as antibodies in the blood stream prevent pathogens from attaching to healthy red blood cells, and mark them for destruction by macrophages. (Length: 53 sec.)
Other
Molecular Movies: Cell & Molecular Animation Showcase
An organized directory showcasing cell and molecular animations for use in high school biology classrooms.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Immune Cells
Check out this entertaining and informative animation. The animation specifically shows the series of steps that must take place for immune cells to deal with a cold virus. The movie does mistakenly call a virus a cell, but otherwise is...
Other
Osmosis: Type Iv Hypersensitivity (Cell Mediated)
What is type IV hypersensitivity? This video covers the pathophysiology, symptoms, and several examples, including contact dermatitis as with poison ivy, as well as several other systemic diseases. [7:31]
Other
Osmosis: Type Ii Hypersensitivity (Cytotoxic Hypersensitivity)
What is type II hypersensitivity? This video discusses five mechanisms of cellular damage, including via the complement pathway, opsonization and phagocytosis, and antibody-mediated cellular dysfunction. [9:04]
Other
Osmosis:celiac Disease
What is Celiac disease? This video covers the known pathophysiology, as well as important clinical signs and symptoms. [9:07]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Role of Phagocytes in Innate or Nonspecific Immunity
An explanation of the part the inflammatory response within the immune system. [16:20]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Types of Immune Responses
Immune responses including innate, adoptive, humoral and cell-mediated. [8:07]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Double Immunity
Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute discovers a 700-year-old mutation that makes a person resistant to HIV infection. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A New Direction for Aids Vaccine Research
The National Institutes of Health has decided to cancel a large-scale test of an experimental AIDS vaccine, saying that more focused research was needed on the way such vaccines interact with the immune system. We'll talk with scientists...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Scientist Videos: Louis Pasteur Biography
Find out about Louis Pasteur, an influential chemist and microbiologist who made important discoveries related to the immune system, microorganisms and disease. [1:35]
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Hygiene Hypothesis
Determine whether childhood exposure to livestock provides the challenges necessary for the young immune system to grow strong enough to later fight off asthma and allergies. Discover how the modern trend toward "supercleanliness" can...
PBS
Pbs Teachers:surviving Aids
Understand the facts and issues surrounding HIV and AIDS by creating a newspaper supplement containing information gathered from research.
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Immune System
Will the body's defense system fight off the foreign invader? Animated cartoon characters explain the human body's immune system in action. [8:30]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #32: Your Immune System Natural Born Killer
Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system. [15:02]
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #45: Immune System, Part 1
Find out how the immune system's responses begin with physical barriers like skin and mucous membranes, and when they're not enough, there are phagocytes, the neutrophils, and macrophages. It also features the natural killer cells and...