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TED-Ed

How the Heart Actually Pumps Blood

For Students 7th - 11th
Let your heart rejoice! A unique video explains in detail how the heart works to transport blood throughout the human body. Use it during your human body unit, and then discuss the accompanying comprehension questions as a review of the...
Instructional Video4:10
SciShow

What Color is Your Blood?

For Students 6th - 12th
Everyone knows that blood is thicker than water, but do they know what color it is when it is circulating? The various proteins that determine the color of this vital mixture are revealed, and the question is answered once and for all!...
Instructional Video2:04
Bill Nye

Bill Nye The Science Guy on Blood and Circulation

For Students 5th - 8th
Did you know that high-speed aviators need to wear a special g-suit in order to keep blood flowing to their brains when experiencing intense acceleration forces? Bill Nye takes a flight in such a situation. After his trip, two facts...
Instructional Video11:34
Bozeman Science

Circulatory System

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The average person's heart beats about three billion times during their lifetime. In this circulatory system video, learners briefly see the difference between an open and closed circulatory system. The rest of the video focuses on the...
Instructional Video3:56
Curated OER

Circulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A model of a torso in a high school classroom is displayed while the teacher points out various arteries going from the heart to the GI tract and down to the legs. She then looks at the veins coming back up and some superficial vessels....
Instructional Video0:37
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

How a Heart Attack Occurs

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Heart disease causes more deaths in both men and women in the United States than any other factor, buy many people don't fully understand what causes a heart attack. A brief animation demonstrates the slow buildup of plaque, a blockage...
Instructional Video3:38
American Chemical Society

What Happens to Your Body When You Die?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Your heart may not be pumping, but there are still many chemical reactions that continue in your body. An installment of a video series on chemical reactions describes the decomposition process of our bodies after death. It pays...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Blood Vessels, Part 2: Blood Pressure Kills

For Students 9th - 10th
In this episode, we return to blood vessels. We discuss what blood pressure is, how it can become "high," and what that means for our health. One of the more interesting points is that your body has ways of dealing with high blood...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Blood Vessels, Part 1: Form and Function

For Students 9th - 10th
We begin our look at how blood gets around your body. In this episode, we look at the basic three-layer structure of your blood vessels. We review how those structures differ slightly in different types of vessels. We will also follow...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What's Inside of Blood?

For Students 9th - 10th
Spin down your blood and find out what it's made up of. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Baby Circulation Right After Birth

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch how the blood flows through the baby's circulation and compare it to what happens in the fetus. [3:25]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Heart Introduction: Flow Through the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how blood flows through the heart, and understand the difference between systemic and pulmonary blood flow. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fetal Circulation: Fetal Circulation Right Before Birth

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch how the blood flows through the fetal circulation and compare it to what happens in the baby's body. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [11:52]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fetal Circulation: Umbilical Vessels and the Ductus Venosus

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch as fetal blood goes through umbilical vessels and takes a shortcut through the Ductus Venosus to make it back to the heart. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [12:43]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fetal Circulation: Foramen Ovale and Ductus Arteriosus

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch how the fetal heart allows blood to simply bypass the lungs altogether using the Foramen Ovale and the Ductus Arteriosus! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fetal Circulation: Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch how blood gets diverted away from alveoli with low oxygen levels. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [9:13]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Blood: Hemoglobin Moves O2 and Co2

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the two ways that oxygen moves from the lungs to the tissues, and the three ways that carbon dioxide returns from the tissues to the lungs. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course A&p #25: The Heart, Part 1 Under Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
Your heart gets a lot of attention from poets, songwriters, and storytellers, but today Hank's gonna tell you how it really works. The heart's ventricles, atria, and valves create a pump that maintains both high and low pressure to...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Fetal Circulation: Baby Circulation Right After Birth

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch how the blood flows through the baby's circulation and compare it to what happens in the fetus. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: The Heart, Part 1: Under Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
Your heart gets a lot of attention from poets, songwriters, and storytellers, but today we'll learn how it really works. The heart's ventricles, atria, and valves create a pump that maintains both high and low pressure to circulate blood...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Eisenmenger Syndrome?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Eisenmenger's syndrome when blood in the heart shunts from right-to-left due to increased pressure in the right ventricle. [10:01]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course History of Science #15: The New Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
What is life? To try to answer that question, three tools stand out as being especially useful: A book, some experiments, and the microscope! In this video, trace the history of different theories about how our body works. [12:15]
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Video: Mechanism of Veins

For Students 9th - 10th
A video showing an animation of how the one-way valves in veins work to push blood towards the heart. [0:19]
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PBS

Pbs: Nova Science Now: Leeches

For Students 9th - 10th
With this video resource, viewers follow a research biologist into the swamp to find out why leeches have such a bad reputation, and what role they play in today's environment and medical field. [11:01]

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