Fan Favorite Factory Visits
From Mister Rogers' Neighborhood · 1998
28 minPre-KK1st2nd3rdSocial Studies
Summary
Five of the show's best-loved “how people make it” films in one video: crayons, macaroni, applesauce, fortune cookies and wooden yo-yos. Mister Rogers' point is stated outright — it is people who make things, not just machines, and nothing happens quickly or magically. Chapter marks for each factory are in the video description.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Five classic factory films in a row — pick one, or watch the set across a week.
- Which factory surprised you the most, and why?
- What do all five factories have in common?
- Mister Rogers says people make things, not just machines. What did the people do?
- What tools or machines helped the workers do their job faster?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: factory, goods, worker, machine, step.
Try it: Pick one factory and draw its steps as a four-box comic strip.
Try it: Name one thing in the classroom and guess two steps it took to make it.