Instructional Video4:55
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The physics of playing guitar - Oscar Fernando Perez

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhythm, melody, and music? Oscar Fernando...
Instructional Video21:21
TED Talks

Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together

12th - Higher Ed
Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to...
Instructional Video16:34
TED Talks

John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders

12th - Higher Ed
John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for...
Instructional Video4:35
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The history of chocolate - Deanna Pucciarelli

Pre-K - Higher Ed
If you can't imagine life without chocolate, you're lucky you weren't born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate only existed as a bitter, foamy drink in Mesoamerica. So how did we get from a bitter beverage to the chocolate...
Instructional Video5:02
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes | Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

Pre-K - Higher Ed
While the weather in Iceland is often cold, wet, and windy, a nearly endless supply of heat bubbles away below the surface. In fact, almost every building in the country is heated by geothermal energy in a process with virtually no...
Instructional Video9:33
Crash Course

The Core of a Business - Key Activities & Resources: Crash Course Business Entrepreneurship

12th - Higher Ed
When someone says they’re “studying business” or they “work in business,” they could mean so many different things. They could be in marketing, sales, finance or human resources. So much goes into keeping a company running smoothly.
Instructional Video4:54
TED Talks

TED: Fashion that celebrates African strength and spirit | Wale Oyejide

12th - Higher Ed
To be African is to be inspired by culture and to be filled with undying hope for the future, says designer and TED Fellow Wale Oyejide. With his label Ikire Jones (you'll see their work in Marvel's "Black Panther"), he uses classic...
Instructional Video11:13
TED Talks

TED: A tailored history of who wears what -- and why | Richard Thompson Ford

12th - Higher Ed
From puffy trousers to pantsuits and everything in between, law professor and author Richard Thompson Ford takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of fashion and the evolution of dress codes that still influence style today,...
Instructional Video5:25
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what's its environmental impact? Angel...
Instructional Video8:39
TED Talks

TED: How a video game might help us build better cities | Karoliina Korppoo

12th - Higher Ed
With more than half of the world population living in cities, one thing is undeniable: we are an urban species. Part game, part urban planning sketching tool, "Cities: Skylines" encourages people to use their creativity and...
Instructional Video14:51
TED Talks

Vik Muniz: Art with wire, sugar, chocolate and string

12th - Higher Ed
Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and takes us on a tour of his incredible images.
Instructional Video9:34
TED Talks

Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

12th - Higher Ed
Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)
Instructional Video18:01
TED Talks

Mathieu Lehanneur: Science-inspired design

12th - Higher Ed
Naming science as his chief inspiration, Mathieu Lehanneur shows a selection of his ingenious designs -- an interactive noise-neutralizing ball, an antibiotic course in one layered pill, asthma treatment that reminds kids to take it, a...
Instructional Video4:39
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease - Tien Nguyen

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video was created with support from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity: http://ori.hhs.gov. For several centuries, people though diseases were caused by wandering clouds of poisonous vapor. We now know that this theory is pretty...
Instructional Video4:43
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 1928, scientist Alexander Fleming returned to his lab and found something unexpected: a colony of mold growing on a Petri dish he’d forgotten to place in his incubator. And around this colony of mold was a zone completely and...
Instructional Video8:23
Bozeman Science

Practice 1 - Asking Questions and Defining Problems

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen explains how asking questions is the first step in both science and engineering. Questions allow scientists to direct inquiry with a goal of understanding the phenomena in the Universe. Questions allow engineers to define...
Instructional Video4:08
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Are spotty fruits and vegetables safe to eat? - Elizabeth Brauer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 2010, 30 billion dollars worth of fruits and vegetables were wasted by American retailers and shoppers, in part because of cosmetic problems and perceived spoilage. But what are these spots, anyway, and are they okay to eat? Elizabeth...
Instructional Video5:34
Be Smart

The Science of Snowflakes

12th - Higher Ed
Snowflakes are infinitely beautiful, but are they infinitely unique? Here's all the science behind Earth's favorite cold crystal
Instructional Video13:07
TED Talks

TED: My love letter to cosplay | Adam Savage

12th - Higher Ed
Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes -- from a childhood space helmet made of an ice cream tub to a No-Face...
Instructional Video4:26
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The benefits of good posture - Murat Dalkilinc

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Has anyone ever told you, "Stand up straight!" or scolded you for slouching at a family dinner? Comments like that might be annoying"but they're not wrong. Your posture is the foundation for every movement your body makes and can...
Instructional Video4:53
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Epic Engineering: Building the Brooklyn Bridge | Alex Gendler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the mid-19th century, suspension bridges were collapsing all across Europe. Their industrial cables frayed and snapped under the weight of their decks. So when German American engineer John Roebling proposed building the largest and...
Instructional Video8:13
Bozeman Science

ETS1A - Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains the first step in the design process, defining and delimiting the engineering problem. Design requires a clear definition of the problem and this is done by addressing both the constraints and...
Instructional Video7:57
Bozeman Science

ETS1C - Optimizing the Design Solution

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how engineers optimize the design solution. After a number of solutions have been identified engineers will test each of them against a given set of criteria. They will trade-off different phenomenon...
Instructional Video5:41
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The rise and fall of the Inca empire - Gordon McEwan

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It was the western hemisphere's largest empire ever, with a population of nearly 10 million subjects. Yet within 100 years of its rise in the fifteenth century, the Inca Empire would be no more. What happened? Gordon McEwan details the...