How the Body Works

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How the Body Works

18 episodes

Animated shorts from Nemours KidsHealth, made with the studio FlickerLab, in which a girl named Chloe and her sidekick Nurb tour one piece of the body per video. Four to seven minutes each, and the coverage is methodical: bones and skeleton, brain and nervous system, heart, lungs, digestion, the urinary system, the endocrine system, the immune system, plus eyes, ears and hair. One episode handles healthy weight by saying plainly that bodies come in every shape and size. Pitched at grades 2-6 and detailed enough to carry a body-systems unit on its own.

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what this series covers

What How the Body Works covers

18 episodes in the library, tagged for 2nd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Health and Science. Between them they line up with 5 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

2nd
18
3rd
18
4th
18
5th
18
6th
18

Episodes per subject

Health
18
Science
17

NGSS (Science) 2

  • 4-LS1-1Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
  • 4-LS1-2Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

National Health Education 3

  • NHES.1Standard 1: Students comprehend functional health knowledge to enhance health.
  • NHES.1.5.5Describe practices and behaviors that prevent or reduce health risks, such as eating vegetables and fruit daily.
  • NHES.1.5.6Explain ways to take part in healthy practices and behaviors, such as daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.

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