Turn your classroom into a citizen science lab with GlobalXplorer
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Theoretical physicist (and TED Fellow) Shohini Ghose has two great passions: physics, and...
10 tips for talking about news, politics and current events in schools
In schools everywhere, students are deeply affected by current events. Certain policy changes and...
Should emotions be taught in schools?
Who taught you how to identify and manage your emotions, how to recognize them when they arose,...
I made my classroom look like the real world…and test scores soared
Anthony Johnson is an elementary school teacher in North Carolina and a TED-Ed Innovative...
History vs…: a TED-Ed Lesson playlist
“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the...
A brief history of African-American social dance (in TED-Ed GIFs)
This is the Bop. The Bop is a type of social dance. Dance is a language, and social dance is an...
Should every kid learn to love computer science?
The short answer is yes. Here’s why. In the Lego Movie, the protagonists are “master builders” —...
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture classroom resources
“I, too, am America,” wrote Langston Hughes in 1927. Like James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and August...
TED-Ed Weekend June 2017: Coming to you via livestream!
It’s almost time: TED-ED WEEKEND RETURNS on JUNE 17, 2017! To watch the show and cheer on the...
5 practical ways to keep your creative resolutions
The Oxford English Dictionary defines creativity as “the use of imagination or original ideas to...
How to protect your online privacy
At the American Civil Liberties Union, privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian (TED Talk: How to...
5 TED-Ed Lessons about American power, politics and protests
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” said Frederick Douglass in 1857. “Those who...
Rhetoric 101: The art of persuasive speech
How do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that...
How to tell fake news from real news
In November 2016, Stanford University researchers made an alarming discovery: across the US, many...
5 TED-Ed Lessons to watch while you’re at the gym
Happy New Year from TED-Ed! If you resolved to exercise more this year, then you’ll love this...
How to use littleBits to teach design thinking in the classroom
Design thinking is both a mindset and a methodology. As a mindset, it’s about putting people at...
The top 10 most popular TED-Ed Original animated videos from 2016
TED-Ed Originals are short, award-winning animated videos about ideas. Three times a week, you...
5 words that don’t mean what they used to mean
“Words over time have a way of just oozing around,” says linguist John McWhorter. Below, he...
The world’s required reading list: The books that students read in 28 countries
This compilation of reading assigned to students everywhere will expand your horizons — and your...
Art History 101
Why is Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring” considered a masterpiece? What’s so special about...
TED-Ed Weekend 2016: Meet the speakers!
TED-Ed Weekends are designed to amplify the voices of TED’s next generation and celebrate the...
The physics of the “hardest move” in ballet (in TED-Ed GIFs)
In the third act of “Swan Lake”, the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endless series of turns,...
7 interviewing tips for video storytellers
Laurie House is a documentary filmmaker in New York and a video producer at TED. Below, she...