How many times to we tell our children to put on warm clothes during the
winter so that they won't get a cold? This video does an excellent job visually presenting and discussing the effects of the common cold. Why are we really more likely to get sick in the fall and early winter? What is causing the illness to spread so easily during the cold season?
TEDEd created this video, which is an animation about how a cell is attacked by a virus. It is very detailed and uses language that is easy to understand. The video will go through many parts of the cell and demonstrates the processes of both the cell and the virus.
Did you and your students know that we all have cancer genes? This video goes through the cell cycle and how cancer cells begin forming and talks about the genes that help fight or start the cancer process.
Quickly demonstrate to your students what multiple sclerosis is with this educational video.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting over 40 million people worldwide. And though it was discovered over a century ago, scientists are still grappling for a cure. This video describes how Alzheimer's affects the brain, shedding light on the different stages of this complicated, destructive disease.
While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks, and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect. This video decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to help determine just how much of that sweet carbohydrate makes its way into our diets.
Find out the answer to why bug bites itch. Did you know that most itching bites are all in the head?
This is a TEDed video that demonstrates how cancer-fighting drugs kill cancer and why the human body ends up with some side effects.
Watch and learn how bats transmit diseases and viruses and why so many bats carry viruses.
This animated and narrated video demonstrates how a flu virus exits one person and enters another. Then it visually describes how the virus will be welcomed into a cell where it will replicate its DNA. There is a great part that shows some Phagocytosis as your body tries to destroy the virus.