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Cartoon of a purple amoeba holding a paintbrush and gesturing toward a chalkboard that reads, "Pedigrees." Pink amoeba smiles and gestures toward the chalkboard from the opposite side.
The Amoeba Sisters
Episode
13 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Plant Structure and Adaptation."
The Amoeba Sisters
Episode
9 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon of a frowning pink amoeba holding a folded piece of torn green paper. Large piece of folded green paper hovers to the side.
The Amoeba Sisters
Episode
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Protein Synthesis."
The Amoeba Sisters
Episode
9 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Sex-linked Traits."
The Amoeba Sisters
Episode
7 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital illustration of a sodium potassium pump with a brown cell wall and purple pump at the center. Title card reads, "Sodium Potassium Pump."
The Amoeba Sisters
Episode
8 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Split image of aerial view of city blocks next and a smiling person. Caption: It's the legacy of an evolutionary balancing act
18 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A skeletal bone is being placed on a table.
6 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a skeleton approximately the length of her thumb. Caption: …each of the limbs, and the scapula.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 7
5 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of an animal with a pointed snout, large claws, and overlapping scales covering its body. Caption: They are covered in keratin scales,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 2
4 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rat Dissection--The Cutest Parts Are on the Outside
The Brain Scoop
Episode 6
46 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a taxidermized flying squirrel with legs extended. Caption: As you know, flying squirrels don't fly, they glide.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 8
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a skeleton. Arrows indicate the front right toe and back left heel. Caption: Their elongated heel bone and Achilles tendon.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 1
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Drawer containing thin, preserved cross sections of the human body. Caption: looking into the body, like you would an x-ray.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 51
14 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Platypus with a duck-like snout, webbed feet, and a furry body. Caption: They're the craziest things I've seen in my life.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 9
5 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Still image from: The Circulatory System for Kids
8 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Face painted white with orange and yellow spots peers at us from the edge of the frame with a splotchy gray backdrop. Text reads, "Episode One: The Human Microbiome."
26 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Still image from: The Electric Sheep: The Electric Pulse of Art--Creation and Recreation in the Brain (Spanish)
The Electric Sheep (Spanish)
Episode 9
28 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Outline of a person with the hypothalamus in their brain highlighted. 98.6 degrees. Caption: The hypothalamus monitors the temperature inside the body
22 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 10
ASL
Slide shows light shining in a square on a black backdrop. Text reads, "The Five Senses."
7 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
ASL
Cartoon heart with a worried face floats in front of a blue backdrop. Text reads, "The Human Heart."
6 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Color illustration of the human cardiovascular system, showing the heart, arteries, and veins in the chest area.
25 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: The Hunt: The Hardest Challenge
The Hunt
Season 0 / Ep 1
48 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
People sitting at a table. Caption: (narrator) We may only eat three times a day,
The Living Body
Episode 11
27 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of the top view of the human brain. Caption: Many of the body's mysteries lie in the brain,
The Living Body
Episode 5
26 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Microscopic view of a spherical cell in other structures. Caption: This means a lot of new growth as cells divide and redivide
The Living Body
Episode 3
27 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A skeletal ribcage with lungs inside. Caption: and the air rushes in.
The Living Body
Episode 23
27 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Diagram of a human head with the path from the nostril to the sinuses highlighted. Caption: To get the full benefit of the smell,
The Living Body
Episode 15
27 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of the human eye. Caption: tell us how near or far something is.
The Living Body
Episode 17
27 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Human body with the liver shown in the right corner of the abdomen. Caption: An organ like the liver is like an industrial plant
The Living Body
Episode 12
27 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
An orange tunnel. Caption: leading air down towards an internal harbor,
The Living Body
Episode 14
27 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Diagram of the circulatory system in the torso of a human. Caption: The body's source of pressure is the heart
The Living Body
Episode 9
27 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person sleeping. Caption: there's a hormone at work to control his metabolic rate,
The Living Body
Episode 13
28 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Child at the top of an escalator. Caption: We don't suddenly become adults overnight,
The Living Body
Episode 10
26 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Microscopic view of cells. Caption: in the fluid that bathes the cells.
The Living Body
Episode 20
27 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Cartoon of a character gesturing to a complex diagram of machinery. Caption: we believe in breaking things down.
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 102
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
ASL
Magic school bus floating in the air while talking to a child in bed. Caption: And to do that they will go straight to the troubled zone--
The Magic School Bus
Season 1 / Ep 103
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
People wrapped in cloth holding walking sticks, herding a large herd of bovine. Caption: people started domesticating animals for food,
The Making Of The Fittest
Episode 5
14 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Still image from: The Resilient Brain
22 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 5
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Still image from: The Respiratory System for Kids
8 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: The Science of Music: Hearing Physiology (Spanish)
The Science of Music (Spanish)
Episode 5
13 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Through the Woods: Hiya Butterfly!
Through the Woods
Episode 5
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
A sunflower is labeled, Dormancy, to sleep, and, Tropism, to turn.
1 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person about to look into the eye pieces of a microscope. Caption: how hormones control the genome,
Holiday Lectures On Science
Season 2004 / Ep 1
58 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Animation of red blood cells in a blood vessel. Caption: Red blood cells are eight picometers,
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
3 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Also, how does it adjust that temperature once it knows it.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
5 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
A mouse nibbles the food particle holding it in its claws. Caption: The nanoparticles gave the mouse the ability to see infrared.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
6 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Slideshows light coming through gray shadows in the background of text that reads, Vaping and Viruses: Your Lungs, Your Life."
17 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer-generated image of a brain with a portion in the middle highlighted green. Text on image reads, "Vaping, Nicotine, and the Developing Brain."
18 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
People walking on a dirt path. Buildings with corrugated metal line the road. Caption: The rotavirus is a tiny virus born in water.
13 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Microscopic view of small, tube-like structures. Caption: Two kinds of cells make up the living world:
15 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Vitamins and Minerals for Kids
7 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
A group of people inspecting a waterbody.
10 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Still image from: What Is a Vertebrate?
5 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
ASL
Still image from: What Is an Arthropod?
6 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Magnified view of cells. Caption: to allow liver cells to grow into functional livers.
Science Out Loud
Episode 18
4 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
We see a screen displaying rows of DNA sequencing, represented in patterns of waves, numbers, and letters.
Xploration Earth 2050
Season 4 / Ep 5
22 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Diagram of human upper body with heart, lungs, and circulatory system visible. Caption: such as the respiratory system
10 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
People sitting in a cafeteria eating. Sign on the wall says, "Fire Safety" Caption: It helps you live a normal life without having to worry
28 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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