The Inside Story helps build awareness and responsibility in students for their own physical well-being by encouraging them to eat right, exercise, and feel good about themselves!

Slim Goodbody uses models of organs and body systems, animation, reenactments of scientific breakthroughs, and modeling of good health practices to teach children why we must take care of our bodies to stay healthy!

Awards for The Inside Story  

·         The Parent's Choice Award   (use logo)

·         First Place Gold Medal in Children's Educational Programming from the Houston International Film Festival  (use logo if avail)

·         Bronze Medal Award for Educational Television from the International Film and Television Festival of New York

·         Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Episode 1 Lubba Dubba: The Inside Story of Your Heart and Blood (Run Time 14:40)

Shows students the location of the heart, how it works, and what it sounds like. Slim explains the circulatory system and the function of blood and demonstrates the actions of the heart.

Episode 2 The Breath of Life: The Inside Story of Respiration (Run Time 14:33)

Illustrates how the respiratory system brings oxygen into the body and gets rid of waste, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. Using models, Slim traces the path oxygen takes from the air to the alveoli, capillaries, and body cells, and the path carbon dioxide takes back.

Episode 3 Down, Down, Down: The Inside Story of Digestion (Run Time Approx. 14 Mins.)

Reveals the digestive pathway and explains how food is broken down before our bodies can use it. Slim discusses the importance of eating a variety of foods and the role of teeth, the stomach, small intestines, saliva, enzymes, and blood in digestion.

Episode 4 The Team that Hustles: The Story of Your Bones & Muscles (Run Time 14:31)

Explores how bones and muscles give us shape, motion, and protection. Slim identifies the composition and types of bones. He examines the role of voluntary, involuntary, and cardiac muscles and shows how muscle cells work together.

Episode 5 The Smart Parts: The Story of Your Brain & Nervous System (Run Time 14:36)

Introduces the brain, spinal cord and nerves, and shows how they make up the nervous system. Slim illustrates the major brain regions and their functions, and demonstrates how different parts of the brain control different bodily activities.

Episode 6 The Sensational Five: The Inside Story of Your Senses (Run Time 14:37)

Shows how the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin work with the brain to keep us in touch with the world. Slim introduces the five senses examining their structures, functions, and how they work.

Episode 7 The Little Giants: The Inside Story of Your Glands (Run Time 14:25)

Explores the electrical and chemical partnership between the brain and the endocrine system. Slim explains the functions and importance of the thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, and sex glands and the hypothalamus.

Episode 8 The Body Symphony: The Inside Story of Your Whole Body (Run Time 14:26)

Examines the cooperation among body systems and illustrates the never-ending miracle of growth and change. With models, animation, and film clips, Slim discusses cell structure and how cells are grouped into tissues, organs, and organisms.

Episode 9 Protection Against Infection: The Inside Story of the Immune System and AIDS (Run Time 14:34)

Explains how the immune system protects the body from attacking viruses and defines AIDS. Slim demonstrates how AIDS weakens the body's immune system, "opening the door" to germs. He describes ways the virus can spread, answers common questions about AIDS, and challenges students to make healthy choices.

Episode 10 Attention to Prevention: Inside Story of Substance Abuse (Run Time 14:22)

Demonstrates the harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine on people's minds, bodies, and lives. Slim encourages students to "respect yourself, know the facts, and make a healthy choice." He helps viewers practice responding assertively to peer pressure.

Episode 11 The Cycle of Life Part I: The Inside Story of Growing Up (Run Time 14:47)

Slim explains that as people age, they pass through different stages of life and that while all people pass through the same stages, no two people do it in exactly the same way or time.