Body
Questions
1. Do you like your body?
2. What three adjectives would you use to describe the human body?
3. What are the most useful parts of our body?
4. What do you do to look after your body?
5. Would you rather have the perfect body or be super intelligent?
6. What kind of body language do you use?
7. What part of your body would you like to change?
8. Would you sell your body to science?
9. How would you describe the human body to an alien?
10. How is your body changing? Do you like these changes?
11. How good is our body compared to animals?
12. What will our body look like after another million years of evolution?
13. “Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” Do you agree?
Videos
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Brian Shaw is 6’8 and weighs 400 pounds. He eats a dozen eggs for breakfast. He can lift a car. But he’s too wide to sit in an armchair. See what life is like for the World’s Strongest Man.
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Lesson by Joshua W. Pate, directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio.
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Lesson by Jeffrey Siegel, animation by Brett Underhill.
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You know that little pink thing nestled in the corner of your eye? It’s actually the remnant of a third eyelid. In humans, it’s vestigial, meaning it no longer serves its original purpose. There are several other vestigial structures in the human body, quietly riding along from one of our ancestor species to the next. But why have they stuck around for so long? Dorsa Amir investigates.
Lesson by Dorsa Amir, directed by Avi Ofer.
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Insulin pumps improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking. But there’s a catch: they’re temporary. And it’s not only insulin pumps that have this problem, but all bodily implants. Why is that? Kaitlyn Sadtler details how our immune system reacts to foreign bodies.
Lesson by Kaitlyn Sadtler, directed by Andrew Foerster.
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