18 Great TED Ed Video Lessons for Social Studies Teachers

May 13, 2017
Today we spent sometime going through TED Ed lessons library and curated for you the collection below. These are video lessons created by teachers and educators covering various topics related to social studies. We used TED Ed categorization scheme to arrange these  videos lessons  into 3 main categories: Civics, History, and Geography. As is the case with any TED Ed lesson, videos included come with a number of questions and a discussion section to engage students in meaningful discussions of the video content. The links to these video lessons are included in a table below the visual.

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Categories	TED-Ed Videos
Geography	How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson Why is Mount Everest so tall? - Michele Koppes What happens when continents collide? - Juan D. Carrillo The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler China so extraordinary - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen
History	How much of human history is on the bottom of the ocean? - Peter Campbell How Magellan circumnavigated the globe - Ewandro Magalhaes The missing plague that could have changed history History through the eyes of the potato - Leo Bear-McGuinness What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen The history of museums - J. V. Maranto
Civics	Democracy - A short introduction What are the universal human rights? - Benedetta Berti What does it mean to be a refugee? - Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman How do US Supreme Court justices get appointed? - Peter Paccone Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays? - Jacob Soboroff How is power divided in the United States government? - Belinda Stutzman