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Responsible Decision-Making | Social-Emotional Learning
Being able to identify problems, analyze situations, solve problems, and to evaluate, reflect, and recognize ethical responsibility all come into play when making responsible decisions. A short video offers teachers and parents an...
TED-Ed
What Makes Muscles Grow?
It might work for Popeye, but it takes more than spinach to make us strong. This short video illustrates how the cycle of muscle damage and repair, exercise, nutrition, and rest make us strong.
Ophea
Introduction to Physical & Health Literacy
Support children in living fun, active, and healthy lives with a video on physical and health literacy. Whether its learning basic skills like running, jumping, and throwing, or making healthy choices about the foods they eat,...
Ophea
Exploring Physical & Health Literacy
Help students discover the importance of physical fitness with this health literacy video. Beginning with a comparison of the choices made by two fictional teenagers, this resource continues on to explore the basic...
Ophea
Applying Physical & Health Literacy
Raise teenagers' awareness about the importance of living an active life and staying physically fit by using this short health video. Starting with a series of facts about the negative consequences of physical...
TED-Ed
Toward a New Understanding of Mental Illness
We know that as a result of early detection and intervention, we are able to make great strides in treating common diseases; however, this is not yet the case in the realm of mental illness. Explore this query with your class and touch...
TED-Ed
Cell vs. Virus: A Battle for Health
Viruses act as alien invaders, but our cells are usually quite effective at counterattack. With cartoon animation, viewers learn how DNA is the mastermind behind making antibodies. Immunity rules in this land!
TED-Ed
What Happens During a Stroke?
A stroke can severely impact a patients' speech, motor skills, and quality of life—if they survive the event in the first place. Learn what happens to the brain during a stroke, and how you can help if someone you see is experiencing a...
TED-Ed
What Makes Tattoos Permanent?
How can tattoos be permanent if humans shed over one million skin cells per day? Here's a short, animated video that answers this essential question and provides everything you want to know about the history of tattooing, tattoos...
TED-Ed
The High-Stakes Race to Make Quantum Computers Work
Quantum mechanics just might take computing to a new level. Pupils watch an animated video to learn about quantum computers and how they differ from classical computers. They learn about two current approaches to quantum computing,...
TED-Ed
How to Stay Calm under Pressure
Practice doesn't always make perfect. Pupils watch a four-minute video to learn about the concept of choking during a performance. Next, they answer multiple-choice and open-ended questions about the content in the video. Scholars can...
TED-Ed
How Do Carbohydrates Impact Your health?
To carb or not to carb, that is the question. Whether it is better to dine on simple or complex carbs, or none at all, is the focus of this sweet video that examines the relationship between the glycemic index of foods and metabolic...
TED-Ed
What Makes TB the World's Most Infectious Killer?
Tuberculosis is one of the most pervasive—and one of the oldest—diseases in the world. Why is it so hard to control the spread of this sickness? Watch an informative video about the white plague, also known as consumption, that...
TED-Ed
How to Spot a Fad Diet
Learn how to separate the fat from the meat—the facts from the misinformation about diets—with a short video that offers guidelines for assessing diet regimens that offer long-term health benefits as opposed to short-term changes.
TED-Ed
How Do Contraceptives Work?
How do contraceptives work? What are the forms of contraceptives? Is one form better than others? How reliable is each type? The three forms of contraception—block, disable, or suppress—are examined in a short video designed for high...
TED-Ed
Would Winning the Lottery Make You Happier?
While many dream of the happiness that would come from winning the lottery, few have a realistic plan for what they would do with their winnings to ensure this happiness. Along with recommendations for how to respond to a lottery win,...
TED-Ed
Is It Bad to Hold Your Pee?
How many times should a person pee a day? Is it a bad habit to hold it? What makes us have to go pee? These questions are answered in an informative video about the urinary system, and the importance of urinating at the first sign of...
TED-Ed
Why it's so Hard to Cure HIV/AIDS
Believe it or not, a man was cured of HIV in 2008; unfortunately doctors are still scratching their heads trying to figure out how it happened. Follow along with this short video to learn about this deadly virus and the unique...
TED-Ed
How Do Germs Spread (and Why Do They Make Us Sick)?
Much the chagrin of mothers around the world, germs are everywhere; it's unavoidable. Learn how these microscopic invaders have evolved different ways of spreading from one host to another with this short instructional video.
TED-Ed
How to Make a Baby (in a Lab)
With over five million babies being born through in vitro fertilization in the last 40 years, sex education is taking on a whole new look. After first walking through natural process of reproduction, this short video goes on to...
TED-Ed
23 and 1/2 Hours
Don't miss the opportunity to show what may be the most beneficial video your classes will ever see for their lifelong health and well-being. Using engaging animations and fascinating statistics, Dr. Mike Evans explains why exercise is...
TED-Ed
How One Scientist Averted a National Health Crisis
Between 1957 and 1962, thousands of infants born in Canada, Great Britain, and Germany had serious deformities due to thalidomide, a drug marketed to pregnant women as a mild sleeping aid and to relieve pregnancy nausea. However, the...
TED-Ed
What Happens During a Heart Attack?
Though heart attacks are common, they don't have to be inevitable. A short video not only details what happens during a heart attack, but also provides suggestions for how to lessen the risk factors for the world's leading...
TED-Ed
An Exercise in Self Compassion
Self-evaluation may be key to success but it can also lead to being too critical, which can, in turn, lead to depression. Check out the six steps detailed in this video that show how to appreciate and take care of one's self.