A Room of Our Own / Zeke's Fairy Village
From Work It Out Wombats! · 2023
26 minPre-KK1stTechnologySocial-Emotional Learning
Summary
A full two-segment Work It Out Wombats! episode (~26 min). Designing a shared room and building a tiny fairy village both ask the wombats to picture what they want, plan it out and test their build until it works. Free on the official PBS KIDS YouTube channel.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
In this Work It Out Wombats! video, the wombats use computational thinking to work out an everyday problem. Use these questions to talk about “A Room of Our Own / Zeke's Fairy Village.”
- What do the wombats want to build?
- How do they decide what goes where?
- What would you plan before building something?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: design, build, plan, test, improve.
Try it: Design a tiny room on paper. Label two things and where they go.