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Why Do Some Words Get Stuck on the Tip of Your Tongue Cella Wright
You’re sure you know your 3rd grade teacher’s name— it’s like you’re hovering over it in your mind, but it just won’t materialize. Researchers call this tantalizing torment a “tip-of-the-tongue state,” and it’s something everyone experiences. But what’s actually happening when a word’s caught here, and how can you best get it unstuck? Cella Wright explores why your brain can struggle with recall.
Underwater Astonishments David Gallo
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.
TED-Ed: Global Economics Lessons
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
PhET: Projectile Sampling Distributions
Engage in hands-on data collection and analysis through the rich context of launching projectiles. Explore how different launch parameters create a variety of distributions as you watch the Central Limit Theorem come to life!
TED-Ed: Macroeconomics Lessons
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
TED-Ed: Engineering Lessons
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
TED-Ed: Technology Lessons
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
TED-Ed: Growth & Development Lessons
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
TED-Ed: Medical Conditions Lessons
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
TED-Ed: Information Literacy Lessons
TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.
PhET: Function Builder: Basics
Play with functions while you ponder Art History. Look for patterns, then apply what you learned on the Mystery screen!
PhET: Area Builder
Create your own shapes using colorful blocks and explore the relationship between perimeter and area. Compare the area and perimeter of two shapes side-by-side. Challenge yourself in the game screen to build shapes or find the area of funky figures. Try to collect lots of stars!
PhET: Graphing Lines
Explore the world of lines. Investigate the relationships between linear equations, slope, and graphs of lines. Challenge yourself in the line game!
PhET: Center and Variability
Center and Variability allows students to explore and compare measures of center and variability, including mean, median, range, IQR, and MAD.
PhET: Graphing Slope-Intercept
Explore slope-intercept form of a line. Connect the slope and y-intercept to the equation of the line. Challenge yourself in the line game!
PhET: Under Pressure
Explore pressure under and above water. See how pressure changes as you change fluids, gravity, container shapes, and volume.
PhET: Build a Nucleus
How does changing the number of neutrons or protons affect the nuclear species, the stability of a nucleus, and its possible decay mechanisms? Explore different species, and learn about the common decay paths! Visualize these through the chart of the nuclides and discover the inner energy levels of the nucleus.
PhET: Quadrilateral
Explore the properties of and relationships between named four-sided shapes by moving sides and corners of a quadrilateral.