TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Alien Probe Riddle?
Your team has developed a probe to study an alien monolith. It needs protective coatings in red, purple and green to cope with the environments it passes through. Can you figure out how to apply the colors so the probe survives the trip?
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Killer Robo Ants Riddle?
The good news is that your experimental robo-ants are a success. The bad news is that you accidentally gave them the ability to shoot deadly lasers and you can't turn it off. Can you stop them from escaping their habitat before the...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Stolen Rubies Riddle?
Townspeople are demanding that a corrupt merchant's collection of 30 rubies be confiscated to reimburse the victims of his schemes. The king announces that the fine will be determined through a game of wits between the merchant and the...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Time Travel Riddle?
Your professor has accidentally stepped through a time portal in his physics lab. You've got just a minute to jump through before it closes and leaves him stranded in history. Your only way back is to grab enough colored nodules to...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Troll's Paradox Riddle?
You and your brother have discovered another realm and set off exploring the new wonderful world. Along the way, you see a troll catching creatures in an enormous net. The troll agrees to release the creatures if you can come up with a...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Multiplying Rabbits Riddle?
After years of experiments, you've finally created the pets of the future- nano-rabbits! They're tiny, they're fuzzy and they multiply faster than the eye can see. But a rival lab has sabotaged you, threatening the survival of your new...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Secret Werewolf Riddle?
You're on the trail of a werewolf that's been terrorizing your town. After months of detective work, you've narrowed your suspects to one of five people. You've invited them to dinner with a simple plan: to slip a square of a rare...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Giant Iron Riddle?
Can you test the batteries so that you get a working pair in seven tries or less?
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Vampire Hunter Riddle?
You've stealthily descended into the darkness of a vampire cave, setting a sequence of mirrors as you go. When the sun reaches the right angle in the sky, a beam of light will ricochet along the mirrors, strike a diffuser, and illuminate...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Jail Break Riddle?
Your timing made you and your partner infamous bank robbers. Now, you need to use that timing to break out of jail. Your partner is about to flash you a signal, and exactly 45 seconds later the electric fence circuit will short out. Then...
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Ted: Ted Ed: 5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking
This lesson is introduced with a video that explains five steps in critical thinking to follow that can help when making decisions. Includes multiple-choice and open-ended questions, as well as background information about the discipline...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Fish Riddle?
In this riddle, some endangered fish species are being transported by water and a storm causes them to be thrown overboard. Your task is to devise a way to rescue them. The video provides some pointers on how to approach the problem....
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Unstoppable Blob Riddle?
A shooting star crashes onto Earth. It's unstoppable: no matter what you throw at it, it just re-grows and continues its rampage. The only way to save the planet is to cut the entire blob into precise acute triangles, rendering it inert....
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Cuddly Duddly Fuddly Wuddly Riddle?
You've promised to get your son the cutest creature in creation: the cuddly. It's part of the Wuddly species, cousin to the terrifying duddly and the hideous fuddly. To make one, 100 eggs are placed in an incubator to undergo egg fusion,...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Zippy Boxes
Zippy Boxes is a fun stress-free puzzle game that will keep you entertained for hours. Move the colored boxes to the square containing the same colored key to unlock the crazy creature trapped inside. Parents and children will have a...
Global Problem Solvers
Global Problem Solvers:the Series Season 2: Storm Force: Teacher's Guide
Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. This teacher's resource provides a lesson plan and discussion guide for each Global...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Giant Cat Army Riddle?
The villainous Dr. Schrodinger has developed a growth ray and intends to create an army of giant cats to terrorize the city. Your team of secret agents has tracked him to his underground lab. You burst in to find that it's a trap! Can...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Penniless Pilgrim Riddle?
After months of travel, you've arrived at Duonia, home to the famous temple that's the destination of your pilgrimage. The walk from the welcome center to the temple isn't a long one but there's a problem. Can you outsmart the city's...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Wizard Standoff Riddle?
You've been chosen as a champion to represent your wizarding house in a deadly duel against two rival magic schools. Your opponents are a powerful sorcerer who wields a wand that can turn people into fish, and a powerful enchantress who...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the False Positive Riddle?
Mining unobtainium is hard work- the rare mineral appears in only 1% of rocks in the mine. But your friend Tricky Joe has something up his sleeve. The unobtainium detector he's been perfecting for months is finally ready, and it returns...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Abundant Area
This is an inquiry and technology-based lesson that allows students to discover the relationship between perimeter and area. Students apply problem-solving strategies to solve the real-life problem posed in this lesson. This lesson may...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Brothers of the Knight" Problem Solving and More
The lesson uses the story, "Brothers of the Knight," by Debbie Allen, to launch a writing lesson based on a creative solution to the problem presented in the story.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Who Knows What?
In this activity, you'll start to explore how examining the same event from different perspectives can result in drawing varied conclusions surrounding that event. You will be answering questions about the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius based...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: What Do You Know? What Do You Ask?
Your job in this activity is to assemble the best research team possible to most deeply understand the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Choose a discipline you believe is best suited to understand the eruption and defend your choice. A link to...