Kids Education e-learning & explainer scripts

Let's get cozy. Pull your blanket up to your chin, and take a slow breath in... and out. Tonight we're going on a quiet trip through space. We'll visit each planet, one at a time, and say goodnight as we go. First, we float past the sun. It's a star, a giant ball of glowing light, and it keeps all the planets warm. Close to the sun is little Mercury. It's the smallest planet, and it zips around the sun faster than all the others. Goodnight, Mercury. Next is Venus, wrapped in thick, cloudy air. It's the hottest planet of all. Goodnight, Venus. Then comes a blue and green planet we know very well. That's Earth. That's home. Somewhere down there is your bed, and you're tucked inside it. Goodnight, Earth. Now we drift past Mars, the red planet, dusty and quiet. Goodnight, Mars. Here's Jupiter, the biggest planet, with swirly stripes and a great red storm that spins and spins. Goodnight, Jupiter. Saturn floats by, wearing its beautiful rings made of ice and rock. Goodnight, Saturn. Far, far away, Uranus rolls along on its side, like it's lying down for a nap too. Goodnight, Uranus. And last of all, deep blue Neptune, the windiest planet, all the way at the edge. Goodnight, Neptune. Now we turn around and float slowly home... past the rings... past the stripes... past the red dust... all the way back to Earth, and into your room, and into your bed. The planets will keep turning all night long. You don't have to do a thing. Goodnight, space. Goodnight, you.

Grab your explorer hat. Today we're taking a trip around the whole world, and we're going to visit seven giant pieces of land called continents. Look at the map. See the big shapes surrounded by blue water? Each one is a continent. Let's start in North America. It stretches from icy lands in the far north all the way down to warm, sunny beaches. It has deserts, forests and some very tall mountains. Just below it is South America. It's home to the Amazon rainforest, where it rains so much that more kinds of plants and animals live there than almost anywhere else on Earth. Now we cross the ocean to Europe. Europe is small compared with the others, but it's packed with countries. Some of them are so close together, you could visit three in a single day. Just south of Europe is Africa. Africa is huge. It has the longest river in the world and the biggest hot desert, too. To the east is Asia, the biggest continent of all. More people live in Asia than on every other continent put together, and it has the tallest mountain on the planet. Down in the bottom corner is Australia. It's the smallest continent, and it's the only place you'll find kangaroos hopping around in the wild. And finally, at the very bottom of the world, is Antarctica. It's covered in thick ice all year long. Hardly any people live there, but lots of penguins do. Let's count them together. North America. South America. Europe. Africa. Asia. Australia. Antarctica. Seven continents! Which one do you live on? Put your finger on it. Which one would you visit first?

Meet Bolt. Bolt is a little robot who lives on a grid of squares, and Bolt is very, very hungry for apples. But there's one thing you need to know about Bolt. Bolt can't think for itself. Bolt only does exactly what you tell it to do. Nothing more, nothing less. The instructions we give a robot are called code. And today, you're going to write some. Look at the grid. Bolt is standing on the green square. The apple is three squares ahead. What should Bolt do? Let's try it. Tap the arrow that says forward. Tap it once. [Robot beeps] Bolt moved forward one square. But the apple is still two squares away. So we need more forward steps. Tap forward two more times, then press go. [Robot beeps three times] Yum! Bolt got the apple. You just wrote your first piece of code! Now let's make it trickier. In level two, the apple is around a corner. Bolt needs to go forward two squares, then turn right, then go forward one more square. What happens if we forget the turn? [Robot bumps] Oops. Bolt walked straight into the wall. Robots don't guess. If you forget a step, the robot will just keep doing what you told it, even if it bumps into something. When code doesn't work the way we planned, programmers call it a bug. And fixing it is called debugging. Every coder in the world makes bugs. Even the grown-up ones. Especially the grown-up ones. So let's debug. Add the turn right arrow after the two forward steps, then press go. [Robot beeps] There it goes. Forward, forward, turn, forward. Apple! Great job, coder. Order matters. Every step matters. And when something goes wrong, you look carefully, find the bug and try again. Bolt's still hungry. Ready for level three?

Once, in a garden at the edge of a small town, a girl named Rosie planted a seed. It was a tiny, brown seed, no bigger than a freckle. Rosie pressed it into the soft dirt with her finger, covered it up, and gave it a drink from her yellow watering can. The next morning, she ran outside to see her flower. But there was nothing. Just dirt. The seed, deep down in the dark, wasn't worried. It was busy. It had soaked up the water Rosie gave it, and it was getting ready. Very, very slowly, a tiny root began to push down into the ground, looking for more water. Rosie came back the next day. Still nothing. And the day after that. Nothing. But every day, she gave the seed a drink. And every day, underneath, the seed kept working. Its root grew longer. And then, a little green shoot began to push up, up, up, toward the warm light it could feel above. On the eighth morning, Rosie knelt down by the garden and gasped. There, poking out of the dirt, was a tiny green sprout with two small leaves, like two hands waving hello. Rosie kept watering. The sun kept shining. The sprout grew taller, and it grew more leaves, and one day at the very top, a round green bud appeared. And one warm morning, the bud opened, and there it was. A yellow flower, as bright as Rosie's watering can. Rosie smiled. Her flower had been growing the whole time. She just couldn't see it yet. Some things grow quietly, where no one can see. Like seeds. And like you, while you sleep. Goodnight.