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TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing

TED

TED-Ed's commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED's mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed's growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website (ed.ted.com).

Episodes

Can you solve the honeybee riddle? | Dan Finkel

Aug 9 2020 • 5 MIN

You're a biologist on a mission to keep the rare honeybee Apis Trifecta from going extinct. The last 60 bees of the species are in your terrarium. You've already constructed wire frames of the appr...

Ethical dilemma: The burger murders | George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

Aug 9 2020 • 6 MIN

You founded a company that manufactures meatless burgers that are sold in stores worldwide. But you've recently received awful news: three people in one city died after eating your burgers. A crimi...

No one can figure out how eels have sex | Lucy Cooke

Aug 9 2020 • 6 MIN

From Ancient Greece to the 20th century, Aristotle, Freud, and numerous other scholars were all looking for the same thing: eel testicles. Freshwater eels could be found in rivers across Europe, bu...

How do our brains process speech? | Gareth Gaskell

Jul 23 2020 • 5 MIN

The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. With every word, the brain has a quick decision to make: which...

The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece | Iseult Gillespie

Jul 21 2020 • 5 MIN

In Colchis, the hide of a mystical flying ram hangs from the tallest oak, guarded by a dragon who never sleeps. The only way Jason can pry it from King Aeetes' clutches and win back his promised th...

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors | Philip Freeman

Jul 21 2020 • 5 MIN

One summer evening in 335 BCE, Alexander the Great was resting by the Danube River when a band of strangers approached his camp. Alexander had never seen anything like these tall, fierce-looking wa...