Crash Course A&p #8: The Nervous System, Part 1

In cooperative groups, middle schoolers contemplate the probability of 18 different situations occurring. After they make predictions, they compare them to the actual risk factors. This eye-opening exercise demonstrates that the odds of...

Hank takes you on a tour of your two-part autonomic nervous system. This episode explains how your sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system work together as foils, balancing each other out. Their key anatomical...

Hank tries not to stress you out too much as he delves into the functions and terminology of your sympathetic nervous system. [10:44]

What do you and a sack of batteries have in common? Today, Hank explains. [11:43]

What do you and a sack of batteries have in common? Hank explains in this episode. [11:43]

Today Hank explains the skeletal system and why astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are out in space studying it. He talks about the anatomy of the skeletal system, including the flat, short, and irregular bones, and their...

Students outline a body on butcher paper. Students fill in the circulatory system using materials of various textures. Students decorate all the parts of the circulatory system with art articles, like buttons, yarn, etc.

This week we are looking at your parasympathetic division, which is the "resting and digesting" unit. Unfortunately, learning about this de-stressing division also involves a whole lot of memorization. Don't worry, though - we've got...

Take a tour of the two-part autonomic nervous system. This episode explains how your sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system work together as foils, balancing each other out. Their key anatomical differences-where...

Host Hank Green tries not to stress you out too much as he delves into the functions and terminology of your sympathetic nervous system. [10:43]