Hello everyone, I am Qian Mama!
Let me tell you some bad news. The end of the term is coming soon, which means that the epic disaster movie "Summer Vacation" will be released soon.
Every year during the summer vacation, children spend more time squatting at home, and parents’ demand for cartoons also increases. Qian Ma decided to bring out all the good stuff at the bottom of the box!
The animation recommended to you today is amazing. Not only does it have a great origin, there are many episodes, and the content is all-encompassing, but each episode has a high gold content. All of them can be watched online for free!
Okay, let’s not talk too much about it. What I want to recommend today is TED-ed popular science animation .
Everyone must be familiar with TED lectures. TED-ed is an educational channel affiliated with TED. It mainly teaches various popular science knowledge to children in the form of cartoon animations.
What attracts me most is that its content is really, really rich!
Let’s talk about quantity first. Ted-ed’s current animation has as many as 3,700 episodes , which is a huge treasure trove of popular science! Even if you can't finish it all at once, I suggest you save it and read it slowly.
And in addition to our traditional "scientific" science popularization, also has many contents that are rarely mentioned in general science popularization, such as philosophy, art, psychology, etc.
These animated videos are divided into 12 categories in total: Education, Literature and Language, Philosophy and Religion, Mathematics, Psychology, Design and Engineering Technology, Health, Art, Thinking and Learning, Science and Technology, Social Studies, Business and Economics, Each major category is also subdivided into many branches, and the subject matter is quite rich.
Moreover, the number of ted videos is still increasing. Nowadays, a theme popular science column has been added. There are several animated videos from different angles under each theme, which are very suitable for PBL themed learning.
Okay, now let me take you to take a closer look at this huge treasure house of popular science.
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A short episode makes children think endlessly
Each episode of TEDEd's animated videos is not long, with an average of less than 5 minutes.. Every child can easily watch it, and even leave it unfinished, because each episode is short but contains a lot of gold content.
Each episode is a framework of "setting a scene - raising questions - telling principles - raising new questions", which are interlocking and trigger children's infinite thinking.
For example, there is an episode "Where Gold Comes from" . The beginning is about historical facts. In the Middle Ages, there were many alchemists who wanted to turn rusty iron into gold.
But the alchemist’s idea is actually possible. Why do you say this? This raises a question to guide children to think about
Next, I thought I would start with the history of the earth, but the "pattern of this animation" "Obviously bigger - but if you want to know the mystery of the elements, you still have to start with the mystery of the universe, because all elements originate from the universe.
Stars are composed of hydrogen, the simplest element in the universe, but after nuclear fusion , other heavier elements are gradually formed.
After the complex movement of celestial bodies, after the explosion of super stars, the matter and elements in the universe condensed into new stars and planets, and the earth is one of them. The element gold is formed during this process.
And the amount of gold mined is really very small.
So here comes the new question, can we produce more gold?
animation considers this issue from several aspects, not only from scientific and technological principles, but also from economic, environmental and other aspects.
It is theoretically possible. Particle accelerators can be used to imitate complex nuclear reactions and imitate the process of formation of gold elements in the universe.
However, the time and money spent by this method are too exaggerated, far exceeding the value of gold, so this method is not feasible.
Then we have to think of other ways, such as going to other places to mine gold, such as in the ocean or on other planets in space... The final video did not give a definite answer, but provided a lot of imagination for the children. space.
After a complete closed loop of learning, the children gain not only a knowledge point, but also the thinking caused by it, which is very conducive to the formation of divergent thinking.
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wide range of themes
Many unexpected and interesting topics
As mentioned before, teded’s animations are based on a wide range of materials. Each episode starts with a question -
What is the difference between the Antarctic and the Arctic?
How do anesthetics work?
Which one has stronger adhesion, glue or tape?
Why do people feel itchy?
Leaning Tower of Pisa Why won’t it fall?
sloth Why is it so lazy?
Why do people dream?
Why do some people dislike everything?
What exactly is the Big Bang?
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Doesn’t it already sound great? Moreover, TEDed’s animations not only include the “scientific” popular science animations that everyone is familiar with, but also have many themes that ordinary popular science animations will not cover.
For example, such grand topics as "factors causing economic recession", "what is education", "what are human rights" can be explained by short and intuitive animations.
There are also some topics that are closely related to life, but we may not care much about them.
For example, there is a topic that I am very interested in, called "Should people hold in their urine?" From a physiological point of view, holding in your urine is a very bad habit.
then showed us the process of urine formation.
and how the behavior of holding in urine is achieved through the nervous system .
But if you hold in your urine to a certain extent, your bladder may explode.
I didn’t expect that there is so much knowledge behind this behavior... If you are a child who is interested in shit and peeing, you must be particularly interested in this.
If the above topics are relatively normal, the next topic may be a bit "unbelievable".
For example, "A Brief History of Cats" actually looks at the changes in human life from the special perspective of "pet cats".
and "The hidden meaning of Yin and Yang" . Looking at Eastern philosophy from the perspective of Western thinking, this change of perspective is also particularly interesting.
In short, the content in TEDed is so extensive that I have read countless videos and found them eye-opening!
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How to watch
TED-Ed’s animation is good, but where to watch it?
In fact, you can watch by going to the TED official website. And it's completely free. The website can also be opened in China. Occasionally, the opening speed is slow, but video viewing is not affected.
First, go to the official website, click "WATCH", and then click TED-Ed videos in the drop-down bar to watch all the videos.
Then you can see all the videos, more than 3700!
You can also search for the topics you want to read by yourself, by topic, language, and duration.
For example, if I want to watch a video about memory, I can find many videos on the topic of "memory" by searching memory.
Some people may want to ask, what should I do if I can’t understand it? They are all animations in English?
TEDed animations are equipped with subtitles in multiple languages . Just select Chinese subtitles.
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TEDed I recommend older children to read it, because although the narrative is relatively simple, many knowledge still requires more understanding. htmlFor children aged 76+, it is very suitable to use the fragmented time to broaden their horizons and build a broader knowledge base.
Speaking of popular science animations/documentaries, I recently recommended "If I Were an Animal", "It's a Small World" and "Hello!" suitable for children aged 3+. "World", although they are both popular science, their styles are very different.
Sometimes I feel that children are really lucky. There are so many rich resources to see. Their horizons are much broader than ours before, and the world is much richer.
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