Instructional Video3:46
TED-Ed

How Playing Sports Benefits Your Body ... and Your Brain

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Exercising is undeniably beneficial for our brains and bodies. But how do these benefits compare to the participation and joining of a sports team? Watch an educational video to discover the psychological and health benefits of...
Instructional Video5:05
TED-Ed

Why Sitting Is Bad for You

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Our bodies simply aren't built for such a sedentary existence. Discover what happens to our bodies when we don't practice what we are built to do—move!
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Curated OER

Your Amazing Body

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Why is it important to keep your body healthy? Watch this video and learn how! It focuses on exercise, muscles, bones, and proper nutrients. This is a great video to watch before your next physical education activity.
Instructional Video4:11
TED-Ed

What Is a Calorie?

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Learners discover how we measure a healthy energy budget for our bodies with this educational video from TED-Ed. It reviews not only the definition of a calorie, but also such concepts as basal metabolic rate and how...
Instructional Video6:43
TED-Ed

How to Make a Baby (in a Lab)

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
With over five million babies being born through in vitro fertilization in the last 40 years, sex education is taking on a whole new look. After first walking through natural process of reproduction, this short video goes on to...
Instructional Video1:40
TED-Ed

The Distracted Mind

For Students 8th - 12th
Drivers are four times more likely to crash while talking on the phone, and 23 times more likely while texting. This is a valuable video for adolescents to watch, as it reviews the dangers of inattention blindness while driving and...
Instructional Video9:02
SciShow

Performance Enhancing Drugs

For Students 9th - 12th
There is science behind the adage, "Cheaters never prosper!" Biochemistry or physical education classes find out how steroids, blood doping, and other performance-enhancing methods claim to work, and how unreliable and even dangerous...
Instructional Video3:14
Ophea

Introduction to Physical & Health Literacy

For Students K - 5th Standards
Support children in living fun, active, and healthy lives with a video on physical and health literacy. Whether its learning basic skills like running, jumping, and throwing, or making healthy choices about the foods they eat,...
Instructional Video2:54
Ophea

Exploring Physical & Health Literacy

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Help students discover the importance of physical fitness with this health literacy video. Beginning with a comparison of the choices made by two fictional teenagers, this resource continues on to explore the basic...
Instructional Video3:11
Ophea

Applying Physical & Health Literacy

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Raise teenagers' awareness about the importance of living an active life and staying physically fit by using this short health video. Starting with a series of facts about the negative consequences of physical...
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ABCmouse

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
Two animated children show off and demonstrate their dance moves in a music video featuring the song Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes.
Instructional Video7:50
Curated OER

First Aid - Eye Injury

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Eye injuries are dangerous and could result in blindness or permanent damage. Learn about the eye, eye injuries, and how to care for these injuries. While this clip is intended to promote workplace safety, it could be useful for anyone...
Instructional Video5:18
TED-Ed

What's the Big Deal with Gluten?

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Is gluten-free just a fad? What is gluten anyway, and why can't some of us process it? This is the perfect video to break down the anatomy of gluten and the various diseases and symptoms caused by the notorious protein, as...
Instructional Video4:45
TED-Ed

How Your Muscular System Works

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Get ready for some heavy lifting! A detailed video lesson explains the different muscle groups and their functions. The presenter compares and contrasts different types of muscle compositions related to their purposes.
Instructional Video3:15
TED-Ed

What Can Herpes Do To Your Brain?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
As if the herpes virus isn't gross enough! A video lesson explains how the herpes virus hides in neurons in the nervous system. Learners discover how the latent virus reappears in susceptible immune systems.
Instructional Video1:27
Curated OER

RC Truck Safety

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Are any of your students into RC trucks? The student in this video provides viewers with tips about charging, driving, and caring for an RC truck.
Instructional Video5:11
Nemours KidsHealth

How the Body Works—Hair

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Standing in a forest of hair, Chloe and Nurb discuss how hair grows, why it doesn't hurt to cut it, why it shines, and more! Pair this with the skin video for full coverage of external features of the human body! 
Instructional Video1:50
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ABCmouse

My Body

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
Listen and watch as two young acrobats sing about, and point to body parts—head, knees, mouth, nose, and more! 
Instructional Video8:04
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PBS

Secrets of Sourdough

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
What makes sourdough bread different from other types of bread? An installment of a PBS food science video series explains the science behind fermentation, yeast, bacteria, and their relationship with sourdough bread. It also discusses...
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PBS

The Sweet Science of Chocolate

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Mesoamericans discovered the cocoa tree more than 2,000 years ago, and chocolate has been popular ever since. The PBS video, part of a series on food science, iexamines cocoa trees, the history of the uses of cocoa, and how people make...
Instructional Video3:41
American Chemical Society

How Does Protein Build Muscle?

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Beef up your knowledge of muscles. Individuals learn how protein builds muscle in a video from the ACS Reactions series. The video explains the amounts of protein necessary to build muscle.
Instructional Video5:32
TED-Ed

What Is Schizophrenia?

For Students 6th - 12th
A short illustrated video details what little is known about the symptoms, causes, and treatments for schizophrenia. What is known about the disease, considered a syndrome, is detailed in the video and the links provided to other resources.
Instructional Video4:52
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TED-Ed

Should We Eat Bugs?

For Students 5th - 10th Standards
Cricket cookies? Mealworm mac and cheese? Bugs are super nutritious! Why don't we eat them? Viewers discover the history of entomophagy, that is, the practice of eating insects and spiders, by viewing a fascinating video that explores...
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TED-Ed

The Simple Story of Photosynthesis and Food

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Meet adorable, animated chloroplasts as they produce glucose with the help of the sun. Viewers learn how carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and electrons are combined to form carbohydrates with an engaging video. The narrator also explains how...

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