Series

Maple's World of Curiosity

14 episodes

Animated educational music videos hosted by a friendly deer named Maple, each song built around one classroom topic and running two to six minutes. The set spans the elementary subjects: figurative language, story structure, and telling facts from opinions in English; placing and combining fractions in math; states of matter, energy sources, the rock cycle, and a tour of the solar system in science; and how disasters move people, how countries trade, and how government works in social studies. Bright, sing along visuals carry each idea, so a song works as a warm up or a quick review right before you teach the skill.

what this series covers

What Maple's World of Curiosity covers

14 episodes in the library, tagged for 2nd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Reading & Writing (ELA), Science and Social Studies. Between them they line up with 16 distinct standards across 4 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

2nd: 4
3rd: 7
4th: 13
5th: 14
6th: 8

Episodes per subject

Reading & Writing (ELA): 5
Science: 4
Social Studies: 3
Math: 2

NGSS (Science) 3

2-PS1-1Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
4-ESS3-1Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
5-PS1-1Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.

Common Core — Math 3

3.NF.A.2Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram.
4.NF.B.3Understand a fraction a/b with a > 1 as a sum of fractions 1/b; decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator; add and subtract mixed numbers.
5.NF.A.1Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) by replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions with a common denominator.

Common Core — ELA 5

L.4.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
L.5.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
RL.2.4Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL.2.5Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
RL.5.5Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

Social Studies (C3 / NCSS) 5

D2.Civ.1.3-5Distinguish the responsibilities and powers of government officials at various levels and branches of government and in different times and places.
D2.Eco.14.3-5Explain how trade leads to increasing economic interdependence among nations.
D2.Geo.11.3-5Describe how the spatial patterns of economic activities in a place change over time because of interactions with nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.7.3-5Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.
D2.Geo.9.3-5Analyze the effects of catastrophic environmental and technological events on human settlements and migration.

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