Series

RocketKids

15 episodes

RocketKids is a set of short, animated social-emotional and character-education explainers, most running two to five minutes. A rotating cast of kid hosts walks viewers through one skill at a time — calming down when feelings run high, making a fair choice, thinking a problem through, resolving a conflict, or choosing kindness — usually broken into a few concrete, named steps a class can try right away. The tone is upbeat and direct rather than preachy, pitched to the elementary grades. Because each episode targets a single skill, a teacher can pull exactly the one that matches the skill, the morning meeting, or the moment the room needs.

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what this series covers

What RocketKids covers

15 episodes in the library, tagged for K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Social-Emotional Learning and Health. Between them they line up with 39 distinct standards across 2 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

K: 7
1st: 12
2nd: 15
3rd: 15
4th: 9
5th: 8

Episodes per subject

Social-Emotional Learning: 15
Health: 4

CASEL (Social-Emotional) 21

CASEL.SOA.3Show concern for other people's feelings and respond to them with care.
CASEL.RDM.2Identify solutions to personal and social problems.
CASEL.RDM.3Make a reasoned judgment after looking at the information, facts, and evidence.
CASEL.RDM.4Anticipate and evaluate the consequences of your actions before you act.
CASEL.RDM.5Recognize that critical-thinking skills are useful both inside and outside of school.
CASEL.RS.1Communicate clearly and listen actively.

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CASEL.RS.2Build and keep positive relationships and friendships.
CASEL.RS.3Practice teamwork and solve problems collaboratively.
CASEL.RS.4Resolve conflicts constructively — talk it out, repair, compromise.
CASEL.RS.8Stand up for the rights of others.
CASEL.SA.1Name your own feelings and notice how they change during the day.
CASEL.SA.2Connect feelings, thoughts, and actions — notice what set a feeling off and what you did next.
CASEL.SA.6Hold a growth mindset: treat effort, practice, and mistakes as how ability grows.
CASEL.SM.1Manage strong emotions and impulses instead of acting on them right away.
CASEL.SM.2Use calming and stress-management strategies (deep breaths, a break, asking for space).
CASEL.SM.3Show self-discipline and self-motivation — keep working when a task gets hard or boring.
CASEL.SM.4Set personal and group goals and track progress toward them.
CASEL.SM.5Use planning and organizational skills to break a task into steps and manage time and materials.
CASEL.SOA.2Demonstrate empathy and compassion for others.
CASEL.SOA.5Understand and express gratitude.
CASEL.SOA.6Identify the different rules and norms groups follow, including ones that are unfair.

National Health Education 18

NHES.1.2.4Identify safe and unsafe situations, people, and events.
NHES.1.5.4Compare and contrast safe and unsafe situations, people, and events.
NHES.4.2.3Identify and communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
NHES.4.5.9Demonstrate healthy ways to manage and resolve conflict.
NHES.5Standard 5: Students demonstrate effective decision-making skills to enhance health.
NHES.5.2.1Identify situations that call for a health decision.

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NHES.5.2.2Decide when help is and is not needed to make a health decision.
NHES.5.2.3Explain how family, peers, and trusted adults can affect a health decision.
NHES.5.2.4Predict the outcome of a health decision that leads to a healthy behavior.
NHES.5.2.6Reflect on the healthy and unhealthy consequences of a decision.
NHES.6Standard 6: Students demonstrate effective goal-setting skills to enhance health.
NHES.6.2.1Identify a realistic short-term health goal with help from a trusted adult.
NHES.6.2.4Develop a basic plan for reaching a personal health goal.
NHES.6.2.5Take steps toward a health goal — track progress, set reminders, take small steps.
NHES.6.5.5Determine potential barriers to achieving a personal health goal.
NHES.6.5.7Explain that effort, determination, and resilience help you reach a health goal.
NHES.7.2.1Demonstrate age-appropriate observable health and safety practices.
NHES.7.5.1Demonstrate age-appropriate observable health and safety practices.