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Instructional Video3:24
FuseSchool

How are Pathogens Spread and Controlled?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How can we stop the tiny terrors that cause illness? Junior epidemiologists examine the methods used to control the spread of pathogens with a video from from a biology playlist. The narrator describes the benefits of hygiene,...
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Instructional Video2:46
FuseSchool

What Are Vaccinations?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Are vaccinations necessary in preventing illness? As part of a larger playlist, a short, yet informative video describes what vaccines are and how they work in the body. Viewers witness the introduction of the vaccine culture and how the...
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Instructional Video2:41
MinuteEarth

How Your Dog Can Protect You Before You're Born

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Are there things mothers can do to prevent their unborn children from having asthma? It turns out the answer is related to the household pets. The video explains how dogs and cats seem to protect the health of babies and children. It...
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Instructional Video10:23
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Crash Course

Community Ecology II: Predators

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The first examples of mimicry we have found date back to before flowering plants. The video goes in depth on predators at the community ecology level. It includes discussions of herbivores, parasitism, adaptations, cryptic coloration,...
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Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

How To Make Antivenom

For Students 9th - 12th
You are nine times more likely to die from a lightning strike than a snakebite, thanks to anti-venom. But where does anti-venom come from? Viewers follow the process of making anti-venom, beginning with the discovery of how to make it...
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Instructional Video3:32
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

How We Get Our Skin Color Interactive

For Students 6th - 12th
I can see your epidermis. A short video shows how we get our skin color. It explains how melanocyte cells in the epidermis produce melanin, and that the type and amount of melanin controls skin color.
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Instructional Video
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Size Analogies of Bacteria and Viruses

For Students 9th - 10th
Comparisons of bacteria and viruses with standard cells. [1:43]
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Instructional Video
Next Vista for Learning

Next Vista for Learning: Bacteria Defending the Body

For Students 3rd - 8th
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]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bubonic Plague

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about bubonic plague and how city officials in San Francisco tried to contain its spread in the early 1900s. [5:06]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: Public Health

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets connects public health to the availability of clean and safe drinking water and elaborates on the threats our bodies face due to increasing kinds and quantities of pollutants.
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Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Immune System

For Students 9th - 10th
Paul Andersen explains how your body protects itself from invading viruses and bacteria. He starts by describing the nonspecific immune responses of skin and inflammation. He then explains how we use antibodies to disrupt the function of...
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Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Pneumonia?

For Students 9th - 10th
Pneumonia is a medical condition where lung tissue becomes inflamed, usually caused by a virus or bacteria. Learn how shortness of breath, cough, and fever are common symptoms of this condition and why they occur in pneumonia.
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Discovery of Penicillin

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey tells the story of researcher Sir Alexander Fleming, whose luck and scientific reasoning led to the groundbreaking discovery of penicillin. [4:45]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Producing Penicillin

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, follow two scientists and their Nobel Prize-winning efforts to cure bacterial infections using penicillin. [4:54]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Glo Germ

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is there a way to avoid spreading germs to our friends and families? Come along with Jordan and Sydney as they research this topic.
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Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Viral Replication

For Students 9th - 10th
Paul Andersen explains how viruses reproduce using the lytic cycle. He also shows how viruses can pick up new genetic material and how retroviruses (like HIV) can enter into the lytic cycle. He also describes the lysogenic cycle and how...
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Instructional Video
Kurzgesagt

You Tube: Kurzgesagt: Why You Are Still Alive the Immune System

For Students 9th - 10th
Every second of your life you are under attack. Bacteria, viruses, spores and more living stuff wants to enter your body and use its resources for itself. The immune system is a powerful army of cells that fights like a T-Rex on speed...
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Instructional Video
California Academy of Sciences

Ca Academy of Sciences: Cow Power

For Students 3rd - 8th
Why not use micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungus, etc.) to create sustainable energy and fuel? There are a lot of ideas currently being researched and put to use including turning cow manure into natural gas. [4:43]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Cholera: Domesticating Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how scientists are beginning to predict patterns of disease transmission and levels of virulence. Explore how society can steer the evolution of microorganisms to weaken them.
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how antibiotics help some sick people. Discover what happens when patients cut short their full course of antibiotic drugs.

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