Summary
A short Work It Out Wombats! music video (~2 min). A catchy song about how things can be the same in some ways and different in others -- the thinking behind sorting and grouping objects by their attributes. 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 “Same But Different Song.”
- What makes two things "the same but different"?
- How could you group things that are alike?
- Pick two objects -- how are they the same? How are they different?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: same, different, sort, group, attribute.
Try it: Choose two objects. Draw one way they are the same and one way they are different.