Curated OER
What is Blood?
When we speak of blood, we are usually talking about several different components that make up blood. Do you know what blood consists of? This informative video explains the three elements of blood as well as the nutrients in plasma. The...
FuseSchool
Intro to Cells: Animal, Plant, Nerve and Red Blood Cells
Throw your dendrites in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care! An excellent video in the Fuse School playlist explains the parts and functions of cells. It describes their structures, functions, and specialties.
Curated OER
The Circulatory System
Compare a variety of animals' circulatory systems to the human circulatory system. Paul Andersen uses his SMART Board to show the differences between two, three, and four chamber hearts, focusing on the human heart.
TED-Ed
How Bones Make Blood
Bones are blood cell factories. Viewers learn all about bone marrow and how blood cells produced in the marrow of a donor can be grafted into a cancer patient to fight the disease.
FuseSchool
What Is Blood?
Blood makes up approximately seven percent of the weight of each human, but what is blood? As part of the Fuse School Biology playlist, the video describes the four components of blood. It offers descriptions of what they look like as...
TED-Ed
What Is Leukemia?
Leukemia afflicts children more than any other type of cancer. Pupils explore the nature of harmful mutations in cell DNA, the reproduction of damaged cells in blood and bone marrow, and their effect on normal functions of the human...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Birth and Death of Genes
Notothenioids are not your average fish—they contain antifreeze! An interesting video introduces the icefish, a scaleless fish with colorless blood that lives in the oceans around Antarctica. It explains how gene duplication and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Blood Cell Lineages
All blood cells develop from a single type of cell called a pluripotent cell (also known as a hematopoetic stem cell or a hemocytoblast). Pluripotent cells can give way to different lineages of cells, including lymphocytes or myelocytes....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are Plasma Cell Dyscrasias?
This video explains the different blood cells and plasma cell dyscrasias or dysfunction. [7:53]
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: Bacteria Defending the Body
A video showing a white blood cell defending the body against a virus. Also learn that red blood cells function to bring oxygen throughout the body. [1:35]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Primary Myelofibrosis?
Learn what is primary myelofibrosis as well as how to identify its signs and symptoms, diagnose it, and treat it. [7:43]