Source: Wired Science
Learn how physicians and researchers are testing a synthetic version of blood that could be better at transporting oxygen than the real thing.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Medicine. Human Biology.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Dragonfly TV
Discover how electric signals in the body are detected by electrodes in a myoelectric prosthetic arm, causing movement of the prothesis.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Medicine. Human Biology. Innovations.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Wired Science
Discover how a neurotechnological treatment called deep brain stimulation is being used to regulate activity in abnormal regions of the brain. Watch the procedure being performed on an Ohio farmer with a debilitating case of essential tremor.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Medicine. Human Biology. Technological Advances.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Dragonfly TV
Discover how to jump double dutch, and watch kids perform different double dutch moves. See how kids use the scientific method to find out what has a bigger effect on jump rope performance - hearing or seeing.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Sports. Motion & Forces. Scientific Inquiry.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Dragonfly TV
Discover what makes people dizzy. Watch two kids use the scientific method to figure out what makes them the dizziest when they ice skate.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness
Topics: Body Systems & Senses.
Resource Type: Video
Source: WGBH: Teachers' Domain
Explore how our eyes receive visual information from the world around us and how our brain makes sense of it.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Human Biology.
Resource Type: Video
Source: NOVA
Explore the role that mirror neurons may play in human actions and interactions. Investigate how scientists think mirror neurons work.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Human Biology.
Resource Type: Video
Source: NOVA
Discover how leptin may affect appetite by turning off neural circuits in the brain that stimulate appetite and by turning on neural circuits that allow one to feel satiated.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Human Biology.
Resource Type: Video
Source: NOVA
Examine the function of sleep, particularly the relationship between sleep and memory. Learn how a nap helps people perform better on some memory tests related to math puzzles, typing and recognizing visual patterns.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Psychology. Human Biology.
Resource Type: Video
Source: NOVA
Learn how sleep affects a surgeon's ability to learn and perform surgery.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Psychology.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Dragonfly TV
Observe kids riding roller coasters at an amusement park. See how they used the scientific method to find out if there is a relationship between heart rate and a ride's "scariness."
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness
Topics: Body Systems & Senses.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Dragonfly TV
Learn about different Tae Kwon Do kicks. Watch kids use the scientific method to determine which positions produce the strongest kicks.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Motion & Forces.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Dragonfly TV
Consider how your brain links your sense of taste with your sense of smell. Watch kids use the scientific method to find out how the sense of smell affects the sense of taste.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness
Topics: Body Systems & Senses.
Resource Type: Video
Source: WGBH: Teachers' Domain
Examine why humans have a sense of taste and what happens when we lose it. Explore why the sense of smell is also important to our experience of food.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness
Topics: Body Systems & Senses.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Secrets of the Dead
Discover the dangers of diving in the Atlantic Ocean to explore the wreck of the Andrea Doria with this interactive. Learn how the nature of the health risks changes at different ocean depths, and determine the gas laws that explain the risks.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Safety. Chemistry.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Secrets of the Dead
Learn how the inexperience of divers currently attracted to the wreck has increased the death rate of divers in the last 15 years. Discover how important experience and emergency backup procedures are to the safety of deep sea divers.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Subjects: Health & Fitness
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Safety.
Resource Type: Video
Source: Dragonfly TV
Consider what kind of communication is most helpful on a volleyball court. Watch kids use the scientific method to find out if talking on the court is helpful or distracting.
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Science & Tech
Topics: Body Systems & Senses. Scientific Inquiry. Sound.
Resource Type: Video