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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Tellurium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about tellurium, an element used more often in laser optics than any other in the chemical industry.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Tin: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about tin, a metal used to coat the cans that hold our food, and to make the blades of swords!
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Terbium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. In this video, discover terbium from the Ytterby quarry in Sweden.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Antimony: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about antimony, an element commonly used in the electronics industry.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Strontium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about strontium. Discover strontium with a trip to the village of Strontian, a flame test and some footage of nuclear explosions.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Manganese: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about manganese- element number 25 and a metal with a very rich chemistry.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Yttrium: Periodic Table Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about yttrium. It is found in moon rocks and bullet-proof glass. Come with us to Sweden to discover it.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Climate Change: Earth's Giant Game of Tetris

For Students 9th - 10th
There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide- a greenhouse gas that is piling up ever more rapidly as we burn the fossil fuels that...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Track a Tornado

For Students 9th - 10th
In this TEDYouth Talk, Kosiba describes how she and her team use observations and modeling to track super storms, while sharing some incredible footage from the field.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Family Structure of Elephants

For Students 9th - 10th
In this TEDYouth Talk, O'Connell-Rodwell details her work observing these incredible, social animals, examining several individual characters that play, bond and argue in tight-knit extended families eerily similar to our own.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Networked Beauty of Forests

For Students 9th - 10th
Deforestation causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all trains, planes and automobiles combined. Suzanne Simard examines how the complex, symbiotic networks of our forests mimic our own neural and social networks- and how those...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Fluorine: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about fluorine. A fluorine expert shows you this incredibly reactive element in action. [6:41]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Lithium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about lithium, the lightest of the alkali metals. [2:40]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Neon: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about neon, an inert gas that can be found all over the world. [1:57]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Hydrogen: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about hydrogen and an exploding balloon. But what creates the fireball? [7:17]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Boron: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about boron and the green flames it produces. [4:00]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Beryllium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about beryllium. [3:39]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Oxygen: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about oxygen- it's number 8 and is among the most "famous" of the elements.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Titanium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at Periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about titanium- element number 22, which is a light and strong metal. [8:31]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Helium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about helium, Donald Duck voices, and floating balloons. [4:45]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Chlorine: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about chlorine - element number 17, an extremely reactive and dangerous gas, which was used as a weapon in World War I. [8:41]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Unbinilium: Periodic Table of Videos

For Students 9th - 10th
The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Attempts to create element 120 (unbinilium) raise the issue of the so-called "island of stability." [8:25]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Whales Breathe, Communicate and Fart With Their Faces

For Students 9th - 10th
Comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg explains how majestic whales "fart with their face" (a process more formally known as echolocation) to send their unique sounds through the water. [6:24]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Is Ketchup So Hard to Pour?

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever go to pour ketchup on your fries and nothing comes out? Or the opposite happens, and your plate is suddenly swimming in a sea of red? George Zaidan describes the physics behind this frustrating phenomenon, explaining how ketchup and...