Category Archives: MYP

HyperHeart – da dumpf, da dumpf, da dumpf

Jan 14

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Hyper Heart animationThanks again to bogstandardcomp from the TES Boards.

This Shockwave app shows the full cycle of the heart beat and can be paused at any point. It includes ‘live’ ECG and blood pressure graphs and some tutorials (though I had difficulty getting them to work). Conveniently, it can also be saved using Firefox or Flashcatcher, to be used on the whiteboard.

Derryclare also posted a great link:

Howard Hughes Medical Institute circulation animations.

Posted in Health and Social Issues, HHMI Howard Hughes, Human Health & Physiology (Core & AHL), SMART Boards

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Arkive.org – a whopping great video archive

Oct 31

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This site is a great resource for short clips of hundreds of different species in the wild. Thanks to Philips78 from the TES Boards for the link. They are streamed videos – WMV, RealVideo or Qucktime – and you can download each one via a button below the video. Go and have a look – you could spend hours and all your bandwidth, so get comfortable.

Posted in Endangered Species, Environments, Free Resources

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Stephen Fry: HIV and Me (very mature content)

Oct 28

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Stephen Fry hosts this brave documentary on the experiences of British HIV sufferers. A good watch, shows how perceptions of HIV/AIDS have changed and how it is ignored.

Be warned – there are graphic descriptions during some parts of the documentary and careful editing would be advised before you show it to a group of students.

Of the six parts available on here, part six (after the jump) is a good one to show – Stephen is talking to a teenage girl born with HIV who has made a stand against bullies and made it her prerogative to inform others. This part doesn’t need editing, either.

Again for older students, there is a link to the GI Jonny website at the end of the show. Looks like a bit of a gimmick, to be honest, but might get through to some.

Part 1 of 6 (Parts 2-6 after the jump):

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Posted in BBC, Defense Against Infections Diseases, GoogleVideo, Health and Social Issues, HIV/AIDS, Immunity & Immune System

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Rexin G: Targeted Biological Agent

Oct 26

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This award-winning animation is a high-sheen advert for Rexin G, a nanoparticle combined with a gene to target tumour cells. Is this part of a new wave of targeted medicine? Time will tell. For now, just enjoy the animation.

This animation was produced by Hybrid Animation, who have a series of animation on their site, all very high quality. Go on – have a look!

Many of them are pretty advanced, but this one is  about antigenic shift in the bird flu virus.

Posted in Defense Against Infections Diseases, Health and Social Issues, Medical, Nanomedicine

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Give Blood – a collection of videos about blood donation

Oct 26

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Blood donation Ad: student project (not one of mine)

Greg’s Story: doctor and blood donor succumbs to leukaemia and ends up becoming a blood-product recipient.

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Posted in Health and Social Issues, Medical

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Matchbox 20 – How Far We’ve Come

Oct 9

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So it’s not ‘Science’ per se – but it’s a great song with a cool video tracking some of the big impacts made on the Earth by us wee humans over the past century. It’s all a bit MYP, if you like that sort of thing.

Posted in Human Impacts, Interdisciplinary Learning, Music, MYP

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Birth

Oct 3

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Medical Animation here. Who would’ve thunk that a baby could come out playing the violin?

This one’s for the older students/ strong of stomach:

Link to video (Vaginal delivery – embed may be unsuitable for some)

Clear video of a c-section:

Posted in Health and Social Issues, Medical

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Digestion: Quarter Pounder with Cheese to quarter-pounder with wheeze.

Oct 3

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Good-quality graphics. Teaching idea: give the video to students and ask them to record or narrate their own descriptions to go along with the images. It’s got to be better than the soundtrack provided here, and should fit the subject guide more closely.

Here is a brilliantly simple animation that shows how Flash should be used:

Digestion Animation –  by kitses.com

Next up, Robert Winston and a grisly stomach image – missing the lower intestines.

Finally, this one is nicely done: focuses on the enzymes of digestion and absorption through the villi.

Posted in Digestion, Enzymes, Health and Social Issues

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Planet Earth: An Inconvenient Spoof

Sep 29

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While trawling Google Video for short Planet Earth excerpts, I came upon this mock trailer. It’s filed under ‘comedy’ but is a stark reminder of our destructive influence on the world.

Posted in BBC, Environments, YouTube

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