Character design 101: How to infuse a drawing with personality

How do you give a drawing of a zebra finch a clear personality? How can you use your personal...

What we know (and don’t know) about cancer

February 4th is #WorldCancerDay. Watch these six TED-Ed Lessons to get more informed about...

Art + Science: How the work of George Seurat inspired a TED-Ed Animation on emergence

Let’s go behind the scenes of one recent TED-Ed Lesson, How do schools of fish swim in...

An animator’s take on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

You can find everything you need to know to read Mary Shelley’s classic novel...

The making of TED-Ed’s first 360° animation

Virtual reality is an emerging medium for artists and educators. Painting is an ancient art form;...

5 TED-Ed Lessons about water

Access to clean drinking water is a fundamental human right. But just why is it so important? To...

Anima Mundi TED-Ed Animation Workshop: Write a ‘note to self’ and animate it

The International Animation Festival of Brazil, Anima Mundi, takes place every year in Rio de...

Your dystopian beach reading list

Maybe your beach vacation is more rocky coastline than sandy paradise. Maybe happy endings just...

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Our process at TED-Ed involves several steps to make sure the content we present is factually...

Why do we knock on wood?

Chances are you’ve knocked on wood in the past month. But, really, why? Here’s one origin story:...

8 TED-Ed Lessons about mental health

Depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, narcissism, PTSD, chronic stress, schizophrenia— these medical...

11 electrifying facts about jellyfish

Some jellyfish are longer than a blue whale. Others are barely larger than a grain of sand. And...

Why do people get allergies?

Anyone with an allergy has their origin story, a tale of how they discovered that their immune...

8 fun facts about bees (in TED-Ed GIFs)

How much do you know about the tiny, mighty bees? Here are 8 facts worth learning about our...

Are you more powerful than you think?

This is an age of epic political turbulence. From the fracturing of major political parties, to...

Turn your classroom into a citizen science lab with GlobalXplorer

“Citizen science” projects can boost student engagement by giving kids the opportunity to help...

History vs…: a TED-Ed Lesson playlist

“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the...

A brief history of African-American social dance (in TED-Ed GIFs)

This is the Bop. The Bop is a type of social dance. Dance is a language, and social dance is an...

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture classroom resources

“I, too, am America,” wrote Langston Hughes in 1927. Like James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, and August...

5 TED-Ed Lessons about American power, politics and protests

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” said Frederick Douglass in 1857. “Those who...

Rhetoric 101: The art of persuasive speech

How do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that...

5 TED-Ed Lessons to watch while you’re at the gym

Happy New Year from TED-Ed! If you resolved to exercise more this year, then you’ll love this...

The top 10 most popular TED-Ed Original animated videos from 2016

TED-Ed Originals are short, award-winning animated videos about ideas. Three times a week, you...

Art History 101

Why is Vermeer’s “Girl with the Pearl Earring” considered a masterpiece? What’s so special about...