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Featured TED-Ed Club videos: New Voices from Han Chiang High School’s TED-Ed Club

One of the main goals of TED-Ed Clubs has always been to provide a platform for student...

Does school prepare students for the real world? This teen speaker says no

Are teenagers today prepared for life after school? Or are American students too coddled?...

Featured TED-Ed Club videos: Big Ideas from Warrawee Public School’s TED-Ed Club

One of the main goals of TED-Ed Clubs has always been to provide a platform for student...

How one TED-Ed subscriber became a character in an animated lesson

At the end of last year, TED-Ed reached an exciting milestone: 1 million YouTube subscribers. To...

Why do nouns exist? A writing teacher explains.

The word noun derives from nomen, for “name.” This useful Latin trivia tells us exactly why nouns...

Featured TED-Ed Club videos: Big ideas from Sparkling Mindz International’s TED-Ed Club

One of the main goals of TED-Ed Clubs has always been to provide a platform for student...

12 amazing facts about elephants

In honor of World Elephant Day on August 12, we present you with 12 little-known facts...

Islamophobia through the eyes of a middle school student

Hilliard Weaver Middle School student Ayat Bhutta notices prejudice against Muslims frequently,...

Listening, kindness, and individuality: The advice one student with Asperger’s has for us all

Alix Generous, one of the youngest speakers at the TEDWomen 2015 conference, is an...

Advice from a young TED speaker: Start a TED-Ed Club at your school

If you watch the video of my TED Talk from 2010, you might see a confident 12-year-old, cracking...

Becoming Spiderman may be easier than you think: A TED-Ed Club talk on genetically modified humans

Will future generations see the human genome as the end point for humanity — or just the...

TED-Ed July Challenge: Here’s the archive of daily lessons

Did you sign up to keep your brain in shape this summer — and learn 31 new ideas in the month of...

Featured TED-Ed Club videos: Hexadactyly, bullies and doodling

One of the main goals of TED-Ed Clubs has always been to provide a platform for student...

3 storytelling tips for TED-Ed Student Talks

Great TED Talks — and TED-Ed Student Talks — can be as compelling as any fictional tale. As...

What’s so super about superheroes? This teen speaker explains.

Everyone loves a good superhero story. But why? Arjun Mehrotra explores the idea in his TED-Ed...