TED Talks & Curriculum Connections for the Classroom

Looking for a way to spice up core curriculum content? Use TED talks in the Classroom! Using keyword tags teachers can narrow the search to find rich materials to use in their classroom! While TED talks are 18 minutes in length, the entire video often does not need to shown to students. Pick the best part of the video and only show the most relevant parts! Enjoy browsing for curriculum content and watching "riviting talks by remarkable people." You never know, TED talks might just spark an idea for a lesson plan - whether you show students the video or not!

Science on TED: Animals, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environment, Geology, Physics, Science

 

Mathematics on TED: Algorithm, Finance, Investment, Marketing, Math,Origami, Statistics, Time

 

Social Studies on TED: Anthropology, Culture, Exploration, Government, History, Map, War, World Cultures

 

Language Arts on TED: Book, Communication, Journalism, Language, Literature, Poetry, Storytelling, & Writing

  

Fine Arts on TED: Art, Arts, Creativity, Dance, Performance, Photography, Piano, Theater

 

TED & TEDx Talks by Students (Youth) from all over the World

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading". It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED talks are riveting talks by remarkable people...and even more remarkable are the inspiring TED talks given by students (youth) from all over the world.

In the classroom, TED talks:

• provide great content!
• bring traditional lessons to life.
• show real-life examples of curriculum knowledge being put to use in incredible ways.
• demonstrate the remarkable contributions youth have to make to the world!

TRY THIS:  Show a student TED Talk today and have your students think about the contributions they can make or hope to make in the world.  Looking for example videos?  Take a look TED under 20 or 9 Talks by Impressive Kids!

Below are a sampling of the youth TED talks you can find at TED.com and TEDxtalks.TED.com.