Instructional Video15:01
Crash Course

Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer - Crash Course Biology

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video0:44
Curated Video

Phagocyte

6th - 12th
A white blood cell that helps protect the body by engulfing and absorbing harmful bacteria, dead or dying cells, waste material, or other foreign bodies in the bloodstream and tissues.
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Instructional Video7:21
Professor Dave Explains

The Plague Yersinia pestis

9th - Higher Ed
The Plague! The Black Death! You've heard of some version of this disease, which wiped out massive percentages of the global population several times in recent millenia. Terrifying, no? So what causes it? Well now we know! It's a little...
Instructional Video5:51
Curated Video

The Role of White Blood Cells in the Immune System

Higher Ed
The video provides an explanation of how the immune system works to defend the body against infection from pathogens, using white blood cells. It focuses on two types of white blood cells, phagocytes and lymphocytes, describing their...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Phagocytes in Immunity

9th - 10th
A description of nonspecific immunity, and the specific role of phagocytes. Understand how phagocytes engulf pathogens that enter the body as a line of defense. [16:19]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Role of Phagocytes in Innate or Nonspecific Immunity

9th - 10th
An explanation of the part the inflammatory response within the immune system. [16:20]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biology: Types of Immune Responses

9th - 10th
Immune responses including innate, adoptive, humoral and cell-mediated. [8:07]