Instructional Video12:41
TED Talks

TED: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure | Caroline Paul

12th - Higher Ed
Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right back up -- and grow up to be brave women. Learn how to spark a little productive risk-taking and raise confident girls with stories and advice...
Instructional Video6:46
TED Talks

Daniel Bögre Udell: How to save a language from extinction

12th - Higher Ed
As many as 3,000 languages could disappear within the next 80 years, all but silencing entire cultures. In this quick talk, language activist Daniel Bögre Udell shows how people around the world are finding new ways to revive ancestral...
Instructional Video16:30
SciShow Kids

Can You Guess the Emotions? | Squeaks and Jessi Play a Guessing Game! | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
We have so many different emotions that pop up from time to time, so Squeaks and Jessi are playing a guessing game while they watch videos that remind them why we have certain emotions!
Instructional Video9:29
TED Talks

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine a country where girls must sneak out to go to school, with deadly consequences if they get caught learning. This was Afghanistan under the Taliban, and traces of that danger remain today. 22-year-old Shabana Basij-Rasikh runs a...
Instructional Video8:00
TED Talks

Pearl Arredondo: My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher

12th - Higher Ed
Pearl Arredondo grew up in East Los Angeles, the daughter of a high-ranking gang member who was in and out of jail. Many teachers wrote her off as having a problem with authority. Now a teacher herself, she's creating a different kind of...
Instructional Video18:28
TED Talks

TED: On tennis, love and motherhood | Serena Williams and Gayle King

12th - Higher Ed
Twenty-three Grand Slam titles later, tennis superstar Serena Williams sits down with journalist Gayle King to share a warm, mischievous conversation about her life, love, wins and losses -- starting with the story of how she...
Instructional Video11:55
TED Talks

TED: Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness | Michele L. Sullivan

12th - Higher Ed
We all go through challenges -- some you can see, most you can't, says Michele L. Sullivan. In a talk about perspective, Sullivan shares stories full of wit and wisdom and reminds us that we're all part of each other's support systems....
Instructional Video9:51
TED Talks

Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy

12th - Higher Ed
We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules.
Instructional Video14:24
TED Talks

TED: How kids can help design cities | Mara Mintzer

12th - Higher Ed
Adults tend to think of kids as "future citizens" -- their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn't they have a say in what the world they'll inherit will look...
Instructional Video11:06
SciShow

Goodall, Fossey & Galdikas: Great Minds

12th - Higher Ed
Today we know that humans and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA and that we have a lot in common. Not just how we look, but how we behave, form groups, defend our turf, and love each other. People didn't always see other primates this...
Instructional Video15:19
TED Talks

TED: Stories from a home for terminally ill children | Kathy Hull

12th - Higher Ed
To honor and celebrate young lives cut short, Kathy Hull founded the first freestanding pediatric palliative care facility in the United States, the George Mark Children's House. Its mission: to give terminally ill children and their...
Instructional Video7:33
TED Talks

Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming

12th - Higher Ed
Has our technology -- our cell phones and iPods and cameras -- stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos "Khoya," her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through a magical world in 7 minutes of...
Instructional Video17:03
TED Talks

Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school

12th - Higher Ed
When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells the jaw-dropping story of two times when she was...
Instructional Video13:21
TED Talks

TED: What it's like to be a war refugee | Zarlasht Halaimzai

12th - Higher Ed
Living under the constant threat of violence has a lasting effect -- even after you escape from danger, says writer and refugee advocate Zarlasht Halaimzai. One of the millions of people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced by...
Instructional Video3:24
SciShow Kids

Whizpops! Dolphin Disco Music Video

K - 5th
We're celebrating a month of reading fun! Read and sing-a-long about dolphins with Squeaks and his favorite band, The Whizpops!
Instructional Video17:26
TED Talks

Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman

12th - Higher Ed
Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.
Instructional Video4:35
SciShow Kids

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! Science for Kids

K - 5th
We’re having a birthday party for one of the world’s most famous scientists, Charles Darwin!!!
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow Kids

What is a Blizzard? | Winter Science | Weather Science | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Usually when it's snowing outside, it's really calm, pretty, and fun to play in! But there are certain types of big snowstorms, called blizzards, that can get really windy, wild, and even dangerous!
Instructional Video7:13
TED Talks

TED: Make your actions on climate reflect your words⇥ | Severn Cullis-Suzuki

12th - Higher Ed
History has shown us that in moments of crisis, society can truly transform, says environmental educator Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Nearly 30 years ago, at just 12 years old, she spoke at the UN's Earth Summit in hopes of reversing the...
Instructional Video17:52
TED Talks

Raghava KK: My 5 lives as an artist

12th - Higher Ed
With endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist -- from cartoonist to...
Instructional Video3:40
SciShow Kids

4 Facts to Know About Reindeer

K - 5th
It's getting really cold where Jessi and Squeaks live, and that has her thinking about a super cool animal that's always ready for super cold weather: Reindeer!
Instructional Video12:28
TED Talks

Jonathan Drori: What we think we know

12th - Higher Ed
Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do.
Instructional Video15:43
TED Talks

Shimon Schocken: What a bike ride can teach you

12th - Higher Ed
Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties...
Instructional Video13:48
TED Talks

Steve Silberman: The forgotten history of autism

12th - Higher Ed
Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve Silberman points to “a perfect storm of autism awareness”...