TED-Ed Quizzes

TED-Ed Video Lessons & Quizzes for Middle and High School Classrooms
Explore a curated set of engaging TED-Ed animated videos, each paired with a short quiz to reinforce understanding and spark discussion. These ready-to-use lessons are ideal for introducing key concepts, reviewing material, or encouraging critical thinking — whether in class or at home. No prep needed — just press play and guide your students into deeper learning.

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Questions No One Knows the Answers to (Full Version)

The Unanswered Questions of the Universe
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

How do solar panels work? - Richard Komp

How Solar Panels Convert Solar Energy into Electrical Energy
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

What is depression? - Helen M. Farrell

The Science of Depression
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky

Hilbert's Infinite Hotel
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

What would happen if you didn’t drink water? - Mia Nacamulli

The Importance of Water in the Human Body
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

What makes muscles grow? - Jeffrey Siegel

How muscles grow
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser

What Causes Floaters in Your Vision?
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

The language of lying — Noah Zandan

The Language of Lying
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli

Your Brain on Food
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

How does anesthesia work? - Steven Zheng

How Anesthesia Works
TED-Ed - Group 1 - Popular TED-Ed Videos

How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi

The Story of Smallpox and Vaccination
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

What happens if an engineered virus escapes the lab?

The Dangers of Laboratory Accidents and Gain-of-Function Research
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

Cell vs. virus: A battle for health - Shannon Stiles

How Cells Work Together
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist

How Stress Affects Your Body
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer? - Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson

How soap and sanitizer work to kill viruses
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

When is a pandemic over?

When will the pandemic end?
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

How does your immune system work? - Emma Bryce

How does your immune system work?
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor

What causes the symptoms of the flu?
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

How do vaccines work? - Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut

How do vaccines work?
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

How do ventilators work? - Alex Gendler

The history and evolution of mechanical ventilation in medicine
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

What is a coronavirus? - Elizabeth Cox

The Origin and Nature of Coronaviruses
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

How do viruses jump from animals to humans? - Ben Longdon

Understanding Viral Host Jumps and Their Potential Threats
TED-Ed - Group 2 - Human vs. Viruses

The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1

Ethic and Hedge: A Prison Break Story
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2

Finding the Resistance Leader
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

The Quest to Control the Furnace-Bots
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4

How to Steal a Powerful Artifact
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5

Programming a Robot to Paint an X
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Chasm | Think Like A Coder, Ep 6

Can you solve the bridge riddle?
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Tower of Epiphany | Think Like A Coder, Ep 7

Navigating the Tower: Solving the Energy Stream Challenge
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Gauntlet | Think Like A Coder, Ep 8

Navigating the Maze of Recursion
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9

TED-Ed video on solving a factory reconfiguration problem with directed acyclic graphs
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10

TED-Ed: Ethic's Maze Strategy
TED-Ed - Group 3 - Think Like a Coder

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken" By Robert Frost
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"First Kiss" by Tim Seibles

First Kiss
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare

All the World’s a Stage from 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

The Opposites Game

The Opposites Game
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"To Make Use of Water" by Safia Elhillo

To make use of water
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"The Nutritionist" by Andrea Gibson

Andrea Gibson's Poem: 'The Nutritionist'
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"Three Months After" by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Three Months After
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"Accents" by Denice Frohman

Accents
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class" poem by Clint Smith

Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

"For Estefani" poem by Aracelis Girmay

For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me a Card
TED-Ed - Group 4 - There's a Poem for That

Four sisters in Ancient Rome - Ray Laurence

Life in Ancient Rome from a Young Girl's Perspective
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - Peta Greenfield

The Duty and Sacrifice of Rome's Vestal Virgins
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor - Elizabeth Cox

A Day in the Life of an Ancient Egyptian Doctor
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome - Ray Laurence

A Day in the Life of a 17-year-old in Ancient Rome
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of a Roman soldier - Robert Garland

The Life of a Roman Legionary
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of the oracle of Delphi - Mark Robinson

The Oracle of Delphi: The Pythia's Prophecies and Role
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of an ancient Athenian - Robert Garland

Life in Ancient Athens During the Peloponnesian War
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge

A Day in the Life of Queen Boraqchin and the Moveable City
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of a Cossack warrior - Alex Gendler

TED-Ed: The Zaporozhian Cossacks and their Struggle for Independence
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of a Celtic Druid - Philip Freeman

A Day in the Life of a Celtic Druid
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of an Aztec midwife - Kay Read

Tenochtitlan's Festival and the Midwife's Role
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman - Gabriel Prieto

The Shaman's Ritual: Ancient Practices in Weather Prediction
TED-Ed - Group 5 - A Day in the Life

How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas

The Evolution and Structure of Turtle Shells
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

Why are fish fish-shaped? - Lauren Sallan

The Evolutionary Secrets of Fish Movement
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning

The Ecological Impact of Dung Beetles
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan

The Mystery of Thomas Jefferson's Box of Bones
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen

The evolutionary tango of animal genitalia
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby

The Resilience of the Tardigrade
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox

Why Horseshoe Crab Blood Is So Expensive
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

The surprising reason birds sing - Partha P. Mitra

How do birds learn to sing?
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

The life cycle of the butterfly - Franziska Bauer

The Incredible Journey of Metamorphosis: How Caterpillars Become Butterflies
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt

Cannibalism in the Animal Kingdom
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra

Types of Insect Mouthparts
TED-Ed - Group 6 - Awesome Nature

What in the world is topological quantum matter? - Fan Zhang

How Topological Materials Unlock the Secrets of the Quantum World
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

What are gravitational waves? - Amber L. Stuver

Gravitational Waves: A New Way to Observe the Universe
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum? - Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat

The Mysteries of a Vacuum
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Could we create dark matter? - Rolf Landua

Dark Matter: The Mystery of 85% of the Universe
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Will we ever be able to teleport? - Sajan Saini

Is teleportation possible?
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose

The Life and Contributions of Marie Curie
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm

The Invention of Perpetual Motion Machines
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

What is entropy? - Jeff Phillips

Understanding Entropy: Why Hot Objects Cool and Ice Melts
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Are ghost ships real? - Peter B. Campbell

The Mysterious Phenomenon of Ghost Ships
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

The physics of the "hardest move" in ballet - Arleen Sugano

The Physics Behind Ballet's Most Dazzling Move
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Football physics: The "impossible" free kick - Erez Garty

The Physics of Roberto Carlos's Impossible Free Kick
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom

Albert Einstein: The Miracle Year
TED-Ed - Group 7 - Before and After Einstein

Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci

The Unpredictable N-Body Problem
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

Exponential growth: How folding paper can get you to the Moon

Folding Paper: Why Is It So Hard?
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

A brief history of banned numbers - Alessandra King

When numbers become illegal
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

The mathematics of sidewalk illusions - Fumiko Futamura

Anamorphosis: Perspective Art's Illusion
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher

Zeno's Paradox: The Dichotomy Paradox
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair

The Hidden Math Behind Van Gogh's Starry Night
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

How big is infinity? - Dennis Wildfogel

How infinite numbers can be the same size
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan

TED-Ed: Exploring Dimensions with Edwin Abbott's Flatland
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

Why do airlines sell too many tickets? - Nina Klietsch

Understanding the Economics of Overbooking
TED-Ed - Group 8 - Math of the Impossible

The science of laughter - Sasha Winkler

The Science of Laughter
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

How did detectives solve the case of the bloody fingerprints? - Theodore E. Yeshion

How Do Your Fingerprints Form?
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

How much would it cost to buy the Sun? - Cella Wright

Can We Buy the Sun?
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

How to make your stress work for you - Shannon Odell

Understanding the Fight or Flight Response and Managing Stress
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

What really happened to Oedipus? - Stephen Esposito

The Tragic Story of Oedipus
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

Why animals help each other - Ashley Ward

Why Do Some Animals Waste So Much Time And Energy On Helping Each Other?
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

What does appendix pain feel like? - David R. Flum

A Harrowing Tale of Appendicitis on the Antarctic Frontier
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

One of the world’s oldest condiments - Dan Kwartler

The Origin of Ketchup
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

The real tale of the Monkey King in Heaven - Ji Hao

TED-Ed: The Legend of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

This is the most common way to get head lice - Nazzy Pakpour

The Untold History of Lice
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

These animals can hear everything - Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard

Exploring the Sonic Superpowers of Animals
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

How does extreme heat affect your body? - Carolyn Beans

How Excessive Heat is Affecting Our Future
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

These animals can hear everything - Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard

The Incredible Ways Animals Hear
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

How humanity got hooked on coffee - Jonathan Morris

The History of Coffee: From Goatherds to Global Industry
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

The dark history of arsenic - Neil Bradbury

The Lethal Legacy of Arsenic: History's Poison of Choice
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

One of the animal kingdom’s strangest relationships - Niko Zlotnik

What is the Tongue-Eating Louse?
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

When ancient wisdom beats modern industry - Rebecca Webster

The Three Sisters: Ancient Agriculture and Modern Lessons
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

The real reason dodo birds went extinct - Leon Claessens

The Real Reason the Dodo Bird Went Extinct
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

What caused the fall of one of the most influential empires in history? - Mostafa Minawi

The Fall of the Ottoman Empire
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

How much do you really know about Ancient Rome? - Stephanie Honchell Smith

A Roman Goddess Explains Ancient Roman Culture
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

How to love, according to Rumi - Stephanie Honchell Smith

The transformative journey of Rumi and the influence of Sufism
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

The epic Nordic legend of the monster slayer - Iseult Gillespie

Beowulf: A Hero's Journey and Battle Against Monsters
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

Why is it so hard to get rid of bed bugs? - Gale E. Ridge

Why Bedbugs Are So Hard to Kill
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

Are there any places on Earth with no bugs? - Charles Wallace

Insects: The Ultimate Survivors
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

History vs. Egypt’s "most powerful" pharaoh - Jessica Tomkins

The Case of Pharaoh Ramesses II: Model Leader or Master of Propaganda?
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

You might be surprised by what you'd find in your pores - M. Alejandra Perotti

The tiny creatures living on your face
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

The tale of the brothers who outwitted the demon queen - Malay Bera

The Legend of Neelkamal and Lalkamal
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

Why was the Rosetta Stone so important? - Franziska Naether

Decoding the Rosetta Stone: The Key to Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

Are you more likely to explode or freeze in space? - Tejal Gala

What Happens to Your Body in Space?
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

Why is rice so popular? - Carolyn Beans

A deep dive into the global impact of rice cultivation
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

The physics behind Einstein’s most famous equation - Lindsay DeMarchi and Fabio Pacucci

TED-Ed Video on the Implications of Einstein's E=mc²
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks

The ancient medical practice that persisted for too long - Stephanie Honchell Smith

The History and Science of Bloodletting
TED-Ed - Group 9 - Cool Picks