Series

Silisox

14 episodes

Silisox is a channel of short, brightly animated explainers, most about two to six minutes, that each tell the story behind one thing kids are curious about. A friendly narrator walks viewers through the history of a sport like soccer, basketball, tennis, or karate, the story of an art form like ballet or the piano, how an everyday invention such as the telephone, bicycle, or lightbulb came to be, or a piece of science like the water cycle, snow, the seasons, rainbows, and the ocean. Each episode stays on one topic and keeps the tone full of wonder, so a teacher can pull exactly the story that opens the day's subject.

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what this series covers

What Silisox covers

14 episodes in the library, tagged for K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Science, Physical Education and Technology. Between them they line up with 7 distinct standards across 4 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

K: 4
1st: 8
2nd: 14
3rd: 14
4th: 10
5th: 4

Episodes per subject

Science: 5
Physical Education: 4
Technology: 3
Dance: 1
Music: 1

NGSS (Science) 3

2-ESS2-3Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
1-ESS1-2Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
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.

National Core Arts 2

DA:Cn11.1.3aFind a relationship between movement in a dance from a culture, society, or community and the culture from which the dance is derived. Explain what the movements communicate about key aspects of the culture, society, or community.
MU:Cn11.0.4aDemonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.