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TED-Ed Lessons: Overcoming Obstacles
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Activity Description
TED-Ed is an online library of lessons as extensions of the inspirational TED videos. There are two types of lessons: those already created lessons and lessons you can create from any educational video on YouTube.
For this activity, students watch a video titled Overcoming Obstacles (above). They then write a summary of what they watched and how to apply it in their own lives.
Preparation
- You may need to register at TED-Ed to get an account. It's free.
- Be sure the site is not blocked at your school, either for you or your students. All videos currently come from YouTube and are often blocked at schools. Contact your IT people to unblock it if it is blocked.
- Learn more about how you can use TED-Ed (above). in your class.
- Preview the inspirational video and lesson, Overcoming obstacles and download the Example Document -TED-Ed Video Response Writing Assignment and print it for your students or share the link, have them make a copy and they can fill the document digitally.
- Help students register for TED-Ed if they need accounts to do the lesson.
How-To
- Discuss obstacles with your class, the type on a course and ones in our lives
- Watch the video, Overcoming Obstacles (as a class.
- Open the class to discussion about the video.
- Instruct them to select Think on the page and answer the questions.
- Hand out the Example Document -TED-Ed Video Response Writing Assignment. Instruct students to answer the questions, identifying obstacles in their lives and two decisions that can change their lives.
- Under Dig Deeper, students may learn more about additional resources of inspirational people who have overcome obstacles.
Teacher Tips
- You may need to assist students in registering for a TED-Ed account before the day of the lesson so you can move immediately into the lesson.
- If you do not have enough computers in your class, students can download the free TED app and do the lesson on their smartphones or Kindle. You will find the links to the apps above.
More Ways
- You can create your own lessons by finding your own YouTube video and adding your own questions, notes, and resources. Just select the + Create a Lesson link in the left hand navigation panel of your teacher dashboard. Enter a YouTube video URL or search for a video, select it and add your questions. There are so many useful, educational videos on YouTube, you could create many lessons in this way.
- Assign students to locate other videos of interest on TED-Ed, write a report, and/or share it with the class.
Program Areas
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
Levels
- Low
- Intermediate
- High
- All Levels
