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Instructional Video3:39
TED-Ed

Fresh Water Scarcity: An Introduction to the Problem

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Freshwater is not as plentiful as one might think! Explore how limited this fundamental resource is, how it is being used, and how shortages can be addressed. When you are teaching upper-elementary or middle school earth scientists about...
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Instructional Video3:17
TED-Ed

Dark Matter: How Does it Explain a Star's Speed?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Studying spiral galaxies can make your head spin! With this video, find out how astronomers calculate a galaxy's rotational speed, and how the prediction that the outermost stars slow down does not seem to be true. The mystery may be...
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Instructional Video6:04
TED-Ed

Why Can't we See Evidence of Alien Life?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
With so indescribably many stars and planets in existence, certainly we aren't alone in the universe! Or are we? Strangely, we haven't discovered any hints of life beyond Earth. The contradiction, known as the Fermi paradox, is...
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Instructional Video4:54
TED-Ed

A Host of Heros

For Students 7th - 12th
Why do we need heroes? Acquaint your class with the epic hero, tragic hero, and romantic hero. The narrator defines each type with accessible language and provides an example from literature. Learners will enjoy the narrator's style and...
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Instructional Video4:02
TED-Ed

How Two Decisions Led Me to Olympic Glory

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Steve Mesler's decisions to confront reality and make a change led him from setback and injury to an Olympic gold medal. As you share this video with your class, emphasize the profound effects of our ability to make confident decisions,...
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Instructional Video5:25
TED-Ed

An Exercise in Time Perception

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Some experiences can feel very brief or excruciatingly interminable. How is it that we come to miscalculate time so easily? Our perception of time is heavily influenced by the number of memories and data we record in our brains. Learn...
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Instructional Video4:30
TED-Ed

How Fiction Can Change Reality

For Students 7th - 12th
Stories are much more than they seem. They can change a person's point of view and provide beliefs. Challenge your class to consider the role of classic and modern literature in shaping the world. The video provides several examples,...
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Instructional Video4:53
TED-Ed

The Case Against "Good" and "Bad"

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Good and bad are put on trial for covering up the truth with vague descriptions. How dare they lie like that! See if the presenter can convince your class to ban these words and replace them with more precise, descriptive, and...
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Instructional Video5:39
TED-Ed

The Art of the Metaphor

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Show this poetic and captivating video to your class to activate thought about figurative language. The narrator conjures up scenes with her use of metaphor and describes not only what a metaphor is, but what a metaphor can do. She uses...
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Instructional Video6:24
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TED-Ed

Insults by Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Draw your class into Shakespeare's world with very old-school smack talk. Through these creative curses, Shakespeare efficiently sets the mood and develops relationships between characters. The narrator breaks down several examples from...
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Instructional Video3:53
TED-Ed

Gerrymandering: How Drawing Jagged Lines Can Impact an Election

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
What is gerrymandering, and how does redrawing district lines in a presidential election give one political party advantage over another? Viewers will learn about the origin of the term gerrymandering, why political parties desire more...
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Instructional Video3:36
TED-Ed

A 3-Minute Guide to the Bill of Rights

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
If you don't have the time to spend an entire class on the Bill of Rights, or you are looking for a simple overview, this video provides clear and illustrated descriptions of each of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. You may...
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Instructional Video3:50
TED-Ed

How is Power Divided in the United States Government?

For Students 7th - 12th
Need an introduction to the three branches of the United States government? Look no further! This video offers a basic breakdown of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, including their general makeup and designated...
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Instructional Video2:18
Curated OER

Mysteries of Vernacular: Robot

For Students 7th - 12th
Where does the word robot come from? Starting with a brief definition, the video explores the origins of the word, using neat animations to demonstrate the narration. The resource also comes with assessment questions, links to more...
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Instructional Video4:27
Curated OER

A Brief History of Plural Word...s

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
One of the most straightforward rules of the English language is to add an s to make a word plural, except for a few irregular words. However, English wasn't always like this. Watch a narrated, animated video that explains the history of...
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Instructional Video4:51
Curated OER

What's the Definition of Comedy? Banana.

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Comedy eludes definition; however, there have been many attempts to assign a definition. The narrator explains concepts introduced by Henri Bergson and Aristotle as he approaches the topic. These ideas are animated with cartoons and are...
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Instructional Video5:05
TED-Ed

How Did English Evolve?

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
War and conquest are not the only factors in language change and development, as the narrator of a short video points out in her lecture about the evolution of the English language. Using the phrases, "They gave us a hearty welcome," and...
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Instructional Video6:00
TED-Ed

Slowing Down Time (in Writing & Film)

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
How do you slowmo a story? The narrator of a short video models how to slow down the pace of a narrative by using concepts drawn from slow motion filming. Just as slow motion in a film is achieved by speeding up the process so that more...
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Instructional Video3:28
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Why Is There a "b" in Doubt?

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Many doubt the reasoning for having a b in doubt, but do they know the whole story? Pupils can watch as a Latin word becomes the English doubt. The narrator explains the etymology of doubt, emphasizes the importance of meaning and...
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Instructional Video3:32
Curated OER

Become a Slam Poet in Five Steps

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
Teach your class five straightforward steps to help them work on their slam poetry. Beautifully illustrated, the video will catch the attention of your pupils and inspire them to compose their own work. After each step is explained, a...
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Instructional Video2:50
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In on a Secret? That's Dramatic Irony

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Struggling to get your learners to understand irony? Try out this video, which clarifies each type of irony before going into more depth on dramatic irony. The narrator relates this type of irony to both horror and comedy films and...
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Instructional Video3:29
TED-Ed

What is Verbal Irony?

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Attitude and tone of voice are everything when it comes to verbal irony. In addition to modeling and defining verbal irony, the narrator of this short video also explains the difference between verbal irony and sarcasm, that bit of...
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Instructional Video5:00
Curated OER

Comma Story

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
Imagine the comma as a clever character, walking around town looking for conjunctions or subordinates to help. The video has an animated character for each of these parts of speech, and provides sample sentences that demonstrate where to...
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Instructional Video5:05
TED-Ed

Beware of Nominalizations (AKA Zombie Nouns)

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Save your sentences from the zombie apocalypse! All you need are juicy, verb-driven sentences. Watch the video to find out how to awaken the living dead in your writing, and then how to put the dead to rest and the life back into your...

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