Series

Peep and the Big Wide World

101 episodes

Peep the chicken, Chirp the robin, and Quack the duck bumble through the questions preK and kindergarten children ask out loud: why do things fall, which bird is bigger, what stays dry in the rain. The animated stories run about nine minutes, and interleaved with them are 90-second live-action clips of real children building ramps and dams, sorting collections, and testing what seeds need. Made with National Science Foundation funding for PBS and narrated in part by Joan Cusack, the series models observing closely and trying things out, which is what makes it sit so comfortably at the front of a science circle.

what this series covers

What Peep and the Big Wide World covers

101 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–2nd. Heaviest coverage: Science, Social-Emotional Learning and Math. Between them they line up with 31 distinct standards across 7 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 101
K: 101
1st: 61
2nd: 12

Episodes per subject

Science: 88
Social-Emotional Learning: 8
Math: 5
Art: 1
Technology: 1

NGSS (Science) 17

K-PS2-1Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
K-LS1-1Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
2-PS1-1Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
1-PS4-1Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
K-2-ETS1-2Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
1-PS4-3Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

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K-ESS2-1Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
1-PS4-2Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.
1-ESS1-1Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
1-ESS1-2Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
2-ESS2-3Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
2-LS2-1Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
K-2-ETS1-1Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
1-LS1-1Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
1-PS4-4Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
K-2-ETS1-3Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
K-ESS3-1Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live.

Common Core — Math 3

K.MD.A.2Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute.
K.G.A.2Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
K.MD.B.3Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.