You might also want to take a peek at some of the other new offerings on TedEd. I suspect many will be interesting for our Upper School students, though the lessons seem to be designed with High School students in mind.
I could have spent hours watching these videos...
I also recently discovered a neat series of videos from the BBC (hat tip to the Free Technology for Teachers blog) - The Dara O Briain's Science Club series on the BBC. The series currently has six
episodes investigating the science of things like music and space. The full
episodes cannot be watched in the U.S. but some
short clips can be found on the BBC's YouTube channel. I loved the explanation of the science and story of exploration through time.
My music teacher friends might also enjoy the history of music:
And the Dodo's Guide to extinction is pretty cool as well:
Enough fun... time to go back to writing report cards...
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