How do the lungs work? - Emma Bryce
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When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body’s cells to keep them working, while also clearing your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates. How do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking about it? Emma Bryce takes us into the lungs to investigate how they help keep us alive.
Why do you think the body's cells need oxygen?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Emma Bryce
- Director Andrew Zimbelman
- Producer Andrea Sertz Jew
- Composer Dave Feddock
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
