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Octonauts

132 episodes

Undersea rescue stories from the CBeebies series produced by Silvergate Media, based on the picture books by Meomi. A crew of animal explorers meets one creature per episode, gets tangled up in its world, and closes with a Creature Report laying out where it lives, what it eats, and the features that keep it alive. The visitors include Adelie penguins, arctic orcas, barracudas, belugas, hatching sea turtles, and a baby gator in a swamp. Episodes run about ten minutes, with a few longer specials. That tidy per-creature structure makes it one of the easiest fits for a K-4 habitats or adaptations unit.

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What Octonauts covers

132 episodes in the library, tagged for K–4th. Heaviest coverage: Science. Between them they line up with 10 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

K: 69
1st: 108
2nd: 132
3rd: 132
4th: 60

Episodes per subject

Science: 132

NGSS (Science) 10

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.
2-LS4-1Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
K-LS1-1Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
4-LS1-1Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
3-LS2-1Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
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 more

5-LS2-1Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
K-ESS3-3Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
K-ESS3-1Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live.
3-LS4-2Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

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