Series

The Fixies

42 episodes

Tiny helpers called Fixies live inside household machines and keep them running, which is the excuse for a six-minute cartoon explaining how the machine works. A battery stores energy and pushes it around a circuit; a compass holds a magnet that lines up north; a combination lock stays shut until the numbers land; a text message crosses the country in seconds; a bent drainpipe blocks the smell. Some go further afield: friction, horsepower, static electricity on a balloon, a rover on Mars, where the trash actually goes. A few are just story episodes with no science in them.

what this series covers

What The Fixies covers

42 episodes in the library, tagged for K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Technology, Science and For Fun. Between them they line up with 10 distinct standards across 4 frameworks.

Episodes per grade

K: 4
1st: 22
2nd: 31
3rd: 39
4th: 18
5th: 1

Episodes per subject

Technology: 17
Science: 16
For Fun: 5
Art: 2
Health: 1
Social Studies: 1

NGSS (Science) 7

4-PS3-2Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
3-PS2-1Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
3-PS2-3Ask questions to determine cause-and-effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
4-PS3-1Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
4-PS4-2Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
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.

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