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Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Vermicomposting: How Worms Can Reduce Our Waste

For Students 9th - 10th
Nearly one third of our food ends up in the trash can. Matthew Ross details the steps we can all take to vermicompost at home, and why it makes good business sense to do so. [4:29]
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Oxford Dictionaries: Verb Tenses: Adding Ed and Ing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Spelling rules and word lists for adding -ed and -ing endings to verbs.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Three Ways the Universe Could End

For Students 9th - 10th
Do we know how our universe is going to end? Venus Keus explores cosmologists' three possible scenarios.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Three Ways to Destroy the Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
They say all things must come to an end. Does this include the universe? This video explores current theories on the end of everything. [6:17]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Let's Talk About Dying

For Students 9th - 10th
We can't control if we'll die, but we can "occupy death," in the words of Dr. Peter Saul. He calls on us to make clear our preferences for end of life care- and suggests two questions for starting the conversation. [13:20]
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Utah State University

Teacher Link: South Africa: The Day the Apartheid Ended: Background Information

For Students 4th
This article provides background information about the end of the South African Arpatheid in April of 1994. It mentions the book The Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, April 1994 by Elinor Batezat Sisulu which is about a respected...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Happens When You Get Heat Stroke?

For Students 9th - 10th
Heat stroke can be deadly if not treated immediately. Find out what exertional heat stroke is, how to identify it, and how to treat it. Includes a video, multiple-choice and open-ended questions, background information with links for...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Do Blood Types Matter?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the four main types of blood, and why some blood types mix and others don't. Includes a video, multiple-choice and open-ended questions, background information with links for further research, and a guided discussion...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Grow a Bone

For Students 9th - 10th
How does bone grow and can it be produced outside of a human body? That is the focus of this module. Includes a video, multiple-choice and open-ended questions, background information with links for further research, and a guided...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Make a Mummy

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the many steps involved in the process of mummification use by the Egyptians in their burial process. What is preserved after thousands of years? And what can scientists learn about life in ancient Egypt from studying...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How X Rays See Through Your Skin

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how x-rays were discovered, and how x-ray machines and CT scanners are able to see inside the human body. Includes a video, multiple-choice and open-ended questions, background information with links for further research, and a...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Does Ice Float in Water?

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever wonder why solid ice floats in liquid water? In this video lecture you will explore the special properties of water. Learn "the science behind how hydrogen bonds keep the ice in your glass (and the polar ice caps) afloat". At the...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Football Physics: The "Impossible" Free Kick

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Magnus Effect, a phenomenon discovered by Isaac Newton. Brazilian football player Roberto Carlos used it to score a seemingly impossible goal in a game of football in 1997. Includes a video, multiple-choice and open-ended...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Einstein's Brilliant Mistake: Entangled States

For Students 9th - 10th
When you think about Einstein and physics, E=mc^2 is probably the first thing that comes to mind. But one of his greatest contributions to the field actually came in the form of an odd philosophical footnote in a 1935 paper he co-wrote-...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Where We Get Our Fresh Water

For Students 9th - 10th
In the first of a two part series on fresh water, Christiana Z. Peppard breaks the numbers down and discusses who is using it and to what ends. [3:47]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Eyes on the Stars

For Students 9th - 10th
On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board was physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space. But first, he was a...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How State Budgets Are Breaking Us Schools

For Students 9th - 10th
America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and are weighted with worsening...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why No Aquarium Has a Great White Shark

For Students 9th - 10th
Many have tried to keep a white shark in captivity, but most of these attempts ended with dead sharks. Vox explains why. [5:54]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How We'll Stop Polio for Good

For Students 9th - 10th
Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world- and to snuff it out everywhere, forever. [23:00]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Plant's Eye View

For Students 9th - 10th
What if human consciousness isn't the end-all be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view. [17:29]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Languages Evolve

For Students 9th - 10th
Over the course of human history, thousands of languages have developed from what was once a much smaller number. How did we end up with so many? And how do we keep track of them all? Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Fizzle

For Students 9th - 10th
From a stinky and crude inception, the word fizzle's history is nothing to poo poo at. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel track the road from flatulence to its modern meaning of a failure or weak ending. [1:50]

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