DragonflyTV

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DragonflyTV

92 episodes

Television's most acclaimed real-kids science series (Twin Cities PBS). In every segment, kids ask a question about the world, design a fair test, gather data, and share what they found — modeling authentic, hands-on scientific inquiry.

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What DragonflyTV covers

92 episodes in the library, tagged for 3rd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Science and Health. Between them they line up with 23 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

3rd
37
4th
91
5th
92
6th
54

Episodes per subject

Science
92
Health
4

NGSS (Science) 22

  • 3-PS2-1Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
  • 3-5-ETS1-3Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
  • 3-5-ETS1-1Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • 3-LS4-3Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
  • 4-LS1-2Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
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  • 4-ESS2-1Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
  • 4-LS1-1Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
  • 3-PS2-2Make observations and/or measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
  • 5-LS2-1Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
  • 3-ESS2-1Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
  • 3-ESS3-1Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
  • 3-LS1-1Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
  • 3-LS4-4Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
  • 4-ESS3-2Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
  • 3-LS2-1Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
  • 4-PS3-1Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
  • 4-PS3-4Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
  • 4-PS4-1Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
  • 5-ESS3-1Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth's resources and environment.
  • 5-LS1-1Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
  • 5-PS2-1Support an argument that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed down.

National Health Education 1

  • NHES.1Standard 1: Students comprehend functional health knowledge to enhance health.

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