The full moon illusion
Tonight (September 19, 2013), there will be a full moon. But have you ever wondered why the full...
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Ainissa Ramirez on women in STEM
Ainissa Ramirez isn’t your ordinary scientist; she’s also an inventor, an author, a TED speaker,...
Create a lesson around these five videos: The Renaissance
The past few challenges have been really fun. We’ve featured math, science, and social...
Interview with a teacher: Sue Fullmer
We used Google Hangout to catch up with veteran teacher and Kohl’s Cares winner, Sue Fullmer (see...
Flipped Day
This post is a quick and congratulatory shout out to our friends over at the Flipped Learning...
Create a lesson around these four videos: Mathematics
Last week’s challenge was all about social studies videos. Here’s a list of some of...
Scott Gass talks oceans
Marine Biologist Scott Gass has brought ideas of oceanic proportions to TED-Ed. From the enormity...
Create a lesson around these three videos: Social Studies
Last week’s challenge was all about science videos. This week, however, we’re delving deep...
Top Ten: Humanities Lessons you missed this summer
Are you a humanities teacher getting ready to head back to school? Here’s an excellent list of 10...
TED-Ed presenting at international animation festival, Fantoche
Every September, the small town of Baden, Switzerland becomes home to one of the world’s most...
Create a lesson around these five videos: Science
We are so thankful for all the hard work and energy the TED-Ed community has put into crafting...
Top Ten: STEM Lessons you missed this summer
Are you a STEM teacher getting ready to head back to school? Here’s an excellent list of 10...
Click Your Fortune: TED-Ed’s choose-your-own-adventure look at career options
Many of today’s top jobs didn’t exist ten years ago; it’s likely that many of today’s school-aged...
The comma: Overused and misunderstood
English teacher Terisa Folaron is the educator behind the TED-Ed Lesson Comma Story. The Lesson...
What if superpowers were real…
Everyone fantasizes about what it would be like to lift a building, run faster than a speeding...
TED-Ed experiments with professional development
Last February, TED-Ed had the pleasure of hosting a small group of educators and Youtube stars at...
TEDGlobal: Questions from students for attendees
This week, TED-Ed teamed up with O2 to collect questions from students in the UK to ask TED...
TED-Ed at TEDGlobal 2013: A clever way to open fortune cookies
Here at TEDGlobal 2013, we’re exploring ideas and stories that make us “think again.” One...
TEDxCERN collaborators meet for the first time
Jeanette Nørgaard is the creative animator behind the CERN animation from scientists Dave Barney...
Put those smartphones away: Great tips for making your job interview count
Whether you are interviewing for a part-time job after school, a job fresh out of college, or a...
Ladies and gentlemen, the Hobart Shakespeareans
“A classroom shouldn’t be about a teacher talking. It should be about students doing. The Hobart...
Behind the scenes with CERN physicists
TED-Ed caught up with some of the physicists behind these lessons, to ask them what it was like...
7 cool things that happened during the first year of ed.ted.com
ed.ted.com launched one year ago today on April 25, 2012. Since then, a ton of incredible things...