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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Ted: Ted Ed: Is Dna the Future of Data Storage?

For Students 9th - 10th
There is a way that all of human history could be recorded and safely stored beyond the civilization's end. And the key ingredient is inside all of us: our DNA. Leo Bear-McGuinness explains.
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Ted: Ted Ed: A Saudi Woman Who Dared to Drive

For Students 9th - 10th
Saudi Arabia announced in September 2017 that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the oppression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom. Meet one of the brave activists who...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Lessons From the Longest Study on Human Development

For Students 9th - 10th
For the past 70 years, scientists in Britain have been studying thousands of children through their lives to find out why some end up happy and healthy while others struggle- in fact, it's the longest-running study of human development...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Really Happened to the Library of Alexandria?

For Students 9th - 10th
In its prime, the Library of Alexandria housed an unprecedented number of scrolls and attracted some of the Greek world's greatest minds. But by the end of the 5th century CE, it had vanished. Elizabeth Cox details the rise and fall of...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Four Billion Years of Evolution in Six Minutes

For Students 9th - 10th
Ichthyologist and TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty dispels some hardwired myths about evolution, encouraging us to remember that we're a small part of a complex, four-billion-year process- and not the end of the line.
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Ted: Ted Ed: 5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson is introduced with a video that explains five steps in critical thinking to follow that can help when making decisions. Includes multiple-choice and open-ended questions, as well as background information about the discipline...
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Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Fish Riddle?

For Students 4th - 8th
In this riddle, some endangered fish species are being transported by water and a storm causes them to be thrown overboard. Your task is to devise a way to rescue them. The video provides some pointers on how to approach the problem....
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Machiavellian Really Means

For Students 9th - 10th
From Shakespeare's plays to modern TV dramas, the unscrupulous schemer for whom the ends always justify the means has become a familiar character type we love to hate. Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler investigate the origins of the term,...
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Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Butt Tuba and Why Is It in Medieval Art?

For Students 9th - 10th
A rabbit attempts to play a church organ, while a knight fights a giant snail and a naked man blows a trumpet with his rear end. These bizarre images, painted with squirrel-hair brushes on vellum or parchment by monks, nuns and urban...
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Ted: Ted Ed: The Tribes We Lead

For Students 9th - 10th
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to...

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