TED-Ed (TED’s youth and education initiative) is a great companion for student provocations. This resource has video-based lessons about health topics including growth and development, medical conditions, consumer health, public health, nutrition, physical fitness, and emotional health.
Structure and features
TED-Ed has a library of original animated videos, provides an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, and helps curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills.
Teachers can use the videos to spark curiosity and student thinking or as a platform to create online lessons for students, while families can encourage students to gather information to support an inquiry-based project.
Key features
- Discover and watch videos organised by age/subject/themes.
- Discover and read articles and updates.
- Create your own video based lesson, students talks, and educator talks.
- An option to subscribe for free if you want to save videos on your profile create lessons for your students.
Teachers: create a TED-Ed lesson
- Find a video.
- Add questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources.
- Share your lesson with your students.
- Track their progress.
Teacher notes
Australian Curriculum
- Strand – personal, social and community health.
- Focus area – various.
- Cross curriculum links – various.
