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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
Lesson Plan
Students turn to their partner and answer the question: What obstacles have you faced to come to school?
What are types of obstacles that make going to school difficult? playing a sport? doing a job? Students discuss with partners then join together as a class.
Today, we will share a TED-Ed talk titled Overcoming Obstacles. Then we will discuss what we learned.
Prior to class find out if you have to register to use TED-Ed content. It is free. Prior to class help students register.
Watch the video Overcoming obstacles - Steven Claunch
Discuss the video as a class. Hand out or share the assignment sheet, Watch the TEDEd video Overcoming Obstacles. As pairs, discuss the two questions on the worksheet: Identify obstacles in your life. How can you overcome the obstacles in your life? and What two decisions can you make in your life to change your life?
Gather as a class to discuss the two questions. Write general insights on the board. This can assist in brainstorming, vocabulary and spelling for the practice.
As pairs access the website TEDEd Overcoming Obstacles
Rewatch the video and answer the questions at the Think link at the right.
Discuss as pairs a summary of the video.
Select Dig Deeper link at the right. Select the TED Talks from Olympians and Paralympians
Select one of the videos to watch together. Take notes on the video. Answer the following qeustions:
- Who was the video about
- what sport did the person excel in
- what obstacle did they have to overcome.
Gather as a class. Share what you learned from the video.
Students fill out the assignment document Overcoming Obstacles.
As a class discuss how the insights learned from these speakers can help in our school efforts, careers, families.
Make a list of what was learned. How can we share these ideas with our families?
Documents
- Overcoming Obstacles A11Y.docx - Overcoming Obstacles
Subjects
- Reading
- Learning to Learn
- Reasoning Through Language Arts
- Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
- Writing
- Basic Sentences
- Mechanics (Capitalization, Punctuation, Spelling)
- Paragraph Skills
- Parts of Speech
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