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Wild Animals (Elmo's World)

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Wild Animals (Elmo's World)
18 minPre-KK1stScience
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Summary

Elmo devotes a whole episode to wild animals — with Mr Noodle, a question for the kids, and a film of real children. Predictable structure and a single idea, which is exactly what makes it work for the youngest classes.

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All ages
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Discussion questions

Discussion

Elmo spends this whole episode on wild animals.

  1. What did Elmo want to know about wild animals?
  2. What did the real kids in the film show us?
  3. What did Mr Noodle try that didn't work?
  4. What is one new thing you learned?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: wonder, question, notice.

Try it: Draw one thing you learned about wild animals and label it.

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