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Episode 101

Curious George Flies a Kite

A gusty morning at the country house leads George to experiment with aerodynamics. In the wind, birds soar, ping-pong balls roll, and bricks don't move at all. But the best thing of all for a windy day is a kite. George, with the not-so-willing assistance of Jumpy Squirrel, discovers the wonders and the perils of kite flying.

Educational Objective (Science): To explore how wind makes things move.

Live Action Segment (Trash Bag Kites) A kite maker works with a group of kids to help them make and fly their own kites.

From Scratch

Gnocchi, the cat, is accused of scratching the booths in Chef Pisghetti's restaurant. To prove Gnocchi's innocence (and eat cannoli), George decides to mount an investigation. Using his scientific inquiry skills, he observes the differences between the scratches Gnocchi makes with her claws and the scratches left on the booth, and shows that his friend was wrongfully accused.

Educational Objective (Science):To aid in the development of problem-solving and inquiry skills.

Live Action Segment(Balls and Ramps II) Kids take a trip to a science museum to see an exhibit with movable ramps, tubes, and platforms. Their goal is to make a path for a rolling ball and see if they can get the ball to eventually roll up a ramp.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Feel The Wind

 

Episode 102

Curious George's Home for Pigeons

Compass may be a homing pigeon, but sometimes he has trouble finding his way home. George decides to make him a place to stay on their balcony. After much experimentation, George creates a tree that The Man with the Yellow Hat might not recognize, but in Compass's eyes is the perfect pigeon perch.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To illustrate the engineering design process.

Live Action Segment(Build a Cantilever) Using pre-cut pieces of cardboard and a counterweight, kids test how far from the edge of a table they can build a cantilever.

Out of Order

When George sees a very nice lady leaving packages behind everywhere she goes, he figures she must be very forgetful. He decides to be helpful by gathering up all the packages for her. When Betsy explains to George that the nice lady is actually the mail carrier, they have to figure out a system to match the packages up with the correct addresses and return them fast!

Educational Objective (Math): To help develop an understanding of the relative position and sequence of whole numbers.

Live Action Segment (Order, Order!) Kids play "Order Up," a game in which they have to get themselves in order according to the values on cards they're given. Once in line, they proceed to another destination where they have to find the next batch of cards, with a whole new order challenge.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Let's Build

 

Episode 103

Zeros to Donuts

When George learns about the meaning and power of zero, he is ready to test out his knowledge. The perfect opportunity arises when he's sent to the donut shop for one dozen donuts. But when he adds a couple of zeros, he's surprised to find out he gets one hundred dozen. Now he has to figure out what to do with all those extra donuts before The Man with the Yellow Hat notices.

Educational Objective (Math): To introduce the importance of zero and the relative magnitude of numbers with a zero.

Live Action Segment (100's Day) It's 100's Day, and each kid brings in 100 of something. What does 100 sound like? What does 100 feel like? Who can jump rope 100 times?.

Curious George, Stain Remover

George spills grape juice on the new rug and needs to figure out a way to clean it up before The Man with the Yellow Hat returns! Too much soap and too much water make matters worse. With the help of the barnyard animals (and some simple engineering), George uses the Renkins' water pump to clean up the mess.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate how to move heavy objects using simple engineering.

Live Action Segment (Heavy Weight Champs) Using some rope, sticks, and other things, kids are challenged to move a heavy water barrel. Can they do it? And if so, how far?

Related Parent-Child Activity: Wheel Discoveries

 

Episode 104

Buoy Wonder

Today is a big day for Bill. He's entering his boat in the Model Boat Show! But George discovers that the boat sinks, and to keep Bill's hopes for a prize afloat, he decides to build a new boat. After some trial and error, George finds out which building materials sink and which float.

Educational Objective (Science): To explore the concepts of sinking and floating.

Live Action Segment(A Boat that Floats) Kids experiment with building boats out of some unexpected materials. They make observations about why the boats might sink or float.

Roller Monkey

A monkey on roller skates seems unlikely until Mr. and Mrs. Dulson ask George to wear a pair in front of their toy store to attract customers. George's skating rolls out of control, so Hundley steps in to help. Soon George, Hundley, and even Gnocchi find themselves learning about momentum and inertia at a rapid downhill pace.

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate objects in motion; to help develop an understanding of the power of momentum.

Live Action Segment (Balls and Ramps I) At a skate park, kids roll different sizes of balls down the ramps to see which goes the furthest.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Ramp-N-Roll

 

Episode 105

Curious George On Time

After accidentally breaking Professor Wiseman's cuckoo clock, George decides to explore the inside of the BIG library clock to see how it works. When the big clock also stops working, Mr. Reloj, the local clockmaker, comes to the rescue. With Mr. Reloj's help, George discovers how to use various tools to make the clocks tick again.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To illustrate how to use tools; to introduce the concept of gears and how they change the direction of motion.

Live Action Segment (How Gears Work) At a science museum, kids see an exhibit on gears. They learn about how the size of a gear determines how the gear functions to increase or decrease power.

Curious George's Bunny Hunt

In the country, George falls in love with neighbor Bill's new pet bunnies. They are so irresistible that when Bill leaves to do his paper route, George just has to pet one. But as soon as he opens the bunny hutch, they all escape. By following their footprints and counting carefully, George restores order and returns the missing bunnies to their home.

Educational Objectives (Math & Science): To encourage problem solving; to demonstrate counting; to show how different animals make different tracks.

Live Action Segment (Finding Animal Tracks) Kids explore a wildlife refuge and find tracks in the fresh snow. They use charts they made to try to identify the tracks they find.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Pattern Play

 

Episode 106

Curious George Takes a Job

Following his nose, George sniffs his way to Chef Pisghetti's Ristorante where he finds Gnocchi the cat being tormented by her enormous ribbon. While the Chef is cooking up a meal to tempt a restaurant critic, George and Gnocchi experiment with kitchen magic. They learn that when cooking, not everything becomes floppy like spaghetti, and some things don't really belong in the pasta pot.

Educational Objective (Science): To illustrate that heating and dissolving can change the characteristics (properties) of substances.

Live Action Segment (What Dissolves?) The teacher directs an experiment in dissolving different substances in water: sugar, salt, pepper, and coffee grounds. The kids observe what dissolves and what doesn't.

Curious George Takes Another Job

After George's success helping Chef Pisghetti impress the restaurant critic, the Chef suggests that George help his friend Mr. Glass wash the windows of his skyscraper — The Glass Palace. A perfect job for a little monkey! But maybe not a curious monkey, because George can't help but be distracted by some amazing shadows he sees inside the windows.

Educational Objectives (Science): To illustrate that light travels in straight lines; to illustrate that an object placed in the path of light produces a shadow.

Live Action Segment (Shadow Tricks) A sheet hanging on the clothesline becomes a screen for some shadow play illusions. Did she really pour water on his head? Yup, it's possible in the shadow play!

Related Parent-Child Activity: Curious Pancakes

 

Episode 107

Curious George, Door Monkey

As lobby dog, it's Hundley's job to keep everything in order. But when George finds some intriguingly-shaped packages, the lobby is soon filled with tennis, bowling, and golf balls, and a ton of empty boxes! George and Hundley scramble to put the balls back in the right size boxes before the ball-collector tenant comes to retrieve his packages!

Educational Objective (Math): To demonstrate that objects can be sorted by size and volume.

Live Action Segment(Volume and Shapes) Kids explore properties of shape and volume by creating different shapes using the same number of same-sized blocks. They learn that although their boxes look different, they have the same volume.

Curious George Goes Up the River

George is supposed to be feeding the ducks while The Man with the Yellow Hat helps Mrs. Renkins look for her lost baby chicks. But somehow, "feeding the ducks" turns into a trip down the river for George and Jumpy. At first it's fun, but soon George and Jumpy realize they're getting pretty far from home. With the help of some familiar landmarks, they make their way back safely — and the baby chicks find them!

Educational Objectives (Math & Science): To aid in the recognition of objects from different perspectives; to illustrate how objects can be carried by flowing water; to use objects and a pictorial map of those objects within a landscape to navigate.

Live Action Segment (Build a Current) Kids drop sticks off a bridge and watch how the currents carry them. Later, they use a hose to make their own current, and they observe how the water moves things.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Sort It Out

 

Episode 108

Curious George and the Invisible Sound

While trying to record different animal sounds in the country, George discovers some amazing things about the dynamics of sound: the closer he gets, the louder the sound; the further away he is, the quieter the sound. Then he discovers a sound he's never heard before. He follows the direction of the sound throughout the house until he finds... a cricket?! How can something so small make such a big noise?

Educational Objectives (Science): To demonstrate that sounds vary in volume, pitch, and quality depending on the nature of the object that is vibrating; to illustrate that a noise will sound quieter when it is further away.

Live Action Segment (Feel the Beat) Kids see and hear drums at a drum shop, and they learn how pitch can be changed by making adjustments to the drum. A hearing-impaired girl experiences the instruments by feeling rather than hearing.

Curious George, A Peeling Monkey

George really can't wait to see what's inside Professor Wiseman's birthday present. Because he's a good little monkey, he leaves the present in one piece, but he distracts himself by "unwrapping" everything else around him. George learns that lots of things have covers, and for many different reasons. Even the bathroom walls are covered with wallpaper! But not for long...

Educational Objectives (Science & Engineering): To demonstrate that materials — both natural and human-made — have specific characteristics (properties) that determine how they will be used. (For example, fruit skins have certain properties that help them to protect the fruit.)

Live Action Segment (Fruit Wrappers) Kids visit a museum and meet with an expert who talks about why fruit has coverings. Sometimes it's to protect seeds, or keep out parasites, or keep in moisture.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Feel The Wind

 

Episode 109

Curious George, Dog Counter

It's Dog Show Day! George and Professor Wiseman spend the day with all kinds of different dogs: big, small, hairy...and hungry. With the help of his sandwich, George tempts the winning dogs to follow him home to show The Man with the Yellow Hat. Once there, George can't keep track of all the dogs, so he and a worried Hundley come up with creative ways to sort and count the dogs in the apartment.

Educational Objective (Math): To demonstrate sorting and classifying sets of objects (or animals) by size, number, and other characteristics (properties).

Live Action Segment(Organizing Stuff) The art classroom WAS organized, but things have gotten messed up. The kids re-organize by detecting what is out of place and sorting things out.

Squirrel For a Day

When Bill shows George how Jumpy Squirrel stores his food in the ground, George decides this is a pretty good idea and tries to store all the food in the country house in the ground, too. The Man with the Yellow Hat rescues their supplies and tries to explain that they should only put things in the ground if they want them to grow. That sounds like another great plan. George tries to see what else might grow. Will car keys grow into a car? Will a rubber band grow into an inner tube?

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate how plants grow from seeds.

Live Action Segment (Paper Towel Plants) Kids visit a museum and meet with an expert who talks about why fruit has coverings. Sometimes it's to protect seeds, or keep out parasites, or keep in moisture.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Sort It Out

 

Episode 110

Curious George Discovers the 'Poles

George is thrilled when Bill asks him to look after his tadpoles. He conscientiously feeds them and even decides to give them a little vacation in the lagoon. But the tadpoles disappear, and George worries that he's lost Bill's pets forever. After weeks of searching, George is ready to give up hope, until he learns that the tadpoles haven't vanished; they've grown into frogs!

Educational Objective (Science): To help develop the understanding that all living organisms have a life cycle.

Live Action Segment (Becoming a Mosquito) Kids take a trip to a mosquito control lab to see the life cycle of a mosquito.

Curious George Finds His Way

Hundley and George get locked out of the building in the back alley. While trying to find their way back in, they get hopelessly lost. To make matters worse, it starts to get dark. But when they begin to hear some familiar sounds, they realize that with the combination of Hundley's sharp ears and George's good memory of what they'd heard along the way, they can find their way home.

Educational Objective (Science): To explore the characteristics (properties) of sound.

Live Action Segment (Sound Detectives) ids take a walk to listen for and identify sounds. Each area they visit offers a new selection of sounds, like traffic, birds, and construction trucks.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Bubble Stuff

 

Episode 111

Water to Ducks

After a big rain, George is ecstatic to discover ducks swimming in a big puddle next to the country house. But the puddle starts to shrink, and the ducks begin to fly away. How can George keep that puddle from evaporating so he and Jumpy can continue to play peek-a-boo with that cute baby duck?

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate the water cycle.

Live Action Segment (Goose Watching) With the guidance of a naturalist, kids visit a river to observe geese and become animal behavior scientists.

Animal Magnetism

On a mission to find magnets to hang his newest masterpiece on the refrigerator, George learns a lot about magnets. His new knowledge comes in handy when he has to save his precious artwork from a giant magnetic crane at the junkyard.

Educational Objective (Science): To illustrate several characteristics of magnets: they attract and repel each other; they attract certain kinds of other metals; objects made of certain metals can be magnetized.

Live Action Segment (Magnets) Kids play with and enjoy the things that magnets can do. They discover that there are magnets working at home, too, like the one keeping the refrigerator door closed.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Bubble Stuff

 

Episode 112

Doctor Monkey

When George accompanies The Man with the Yellow Hat to Dr. Baker's office for his annual check-up, he discovers that a stethoscope is a pretty handy thing to have around when you're trying to solve a puzzle involving a mysterious sound.

Educational Objective (Science & Engineering): To demonstrate how sounds can provide clues about what's happening inside a body; to illustrate how instruments can extend the senses (as a stethoscope extends the power of hearing).

Live Action Segment (At the Vet) A visit to the veterinarian gives kids a chance to listen to the heartbeats of a range of animals and observe differences.

Curious George the Architect

Mr. Glass is building a new skyscraper in the neighborhood, and George and Gnocchi think that his construction site is more fun than a playground. George learns how bulldozers, cement mixers, and jackhammers work, and why it's not a good idea to let a monkey operate them.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate that tools help to get things done; to illustrate the fact that tools and machines can be helpful or harmful.

Live Action Segment (Construction Site) Kids visit a construction site to observe safe building techniques and safe use of tools.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Wheel Discoveries

 

Episode 113

Zoo Night

George is so entranced by the new, adorable baby panda at the zoo that he stays through closing time and is accidentally locked inside. While trying to find the way out, he mistakenly opens a few wrong doors and finds himself surrounded by gorillas, giraffes, meerkats, and penguins! Now George has to use his map of the zoo to put all the animals back in the correct habitats before they wake up the baby panda!

Educational Objective (Math): To demonstrate how maps can be used to locate objects.

Live Action Segment (Follow the Map) Kids have to make maps with clues and landmarks to show each other how to find special objects in a museum's collection.

Charkie Escapes

Dog sitting Charkie is always a challenge, but it's especially difficult today when George really wants to practice his soccer kicks. Every time George comes up with a way of keeping Charkie tied up, Charkie comes up with a way of slipping out of her leash. It takes all of George's problem-solving skills to find a way to keep Charkie from running away...until George discovers that she likes playing soccer, too.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate deduction and creative problem solving in using available materials to tackle a problem.

Live Action Segment (Guinea Pig Homes) Kids use a variety of materials to construct habitats for a pair of guinea pigs. The final design, which needs to be changed a few times along the way, features connecting tunnels and doorways between spaces.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Pattern Play

 

Episode 114

Curious George's Rocket Ride

The International Space Station's food supply has run out, and George is the only one who has the unique skills needed to fly the rocket and deliver the supplies. But George can't help being curious about what's in those interesting-looking containers. Before you know it, George has quite a mess to clean up before the supplies can be launched. Luckily, George's experience with cleaning his room and his knowledge of how shapes fit together helps him put it away in time to get the astronauts their supplies.

Educational Objective (Science): To introduce the idea that there are objects that orbit the earth: natural objects (the moon) and human-made objects (satellites).

Live Action Segment (In Orbit) A visit to a planetarium gives kids a chance to learn about orbits and orbiting bodies.

Curious George, Station Master

George and The Man with the Yellow Hat offer to pick up Bill when his train comes in, and when he gets there, Flint Quint, the station master, shows George how he keeps the trains running smoothly and arriving on time. While Flint is eating lunch, George decides he wants to try his hand at being station master, and while everything starts off smoothly, pretty soon trains are off schedule, out of order, and very confused. Mr. Quint comes to the rescue, and they put the trains back in the correct number order before they reach the station.

Educational Objective (Math): To help develop an understanding of the relative position and sequence of whole numbers.

Live Action Segment (Our Schedule) Kids use a variety of materials to construct habitats for a pair of guinea pigs. The final design, which needs to be changed a few times along the way, features connecting tunnels and doorways between spaces.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Curious Pancakes

 

Episode 115

Curious George and the Dam Builders

George gets acquainted with a family of beavers when he notices the impact their dam has on his favorite pond. Building a dam looks like so much fun that George decides to build his own. But when a sudden downpour sweeps both dams away, George and the beavers have to figure out how to repair the damage together or their beloved pond won't be a good place for beavers or monkeys!

Educational Objective (Science & Engineering): To model the idea that an organism's behavioral patterns are related to the nature of the organism's physical environment, heredity, and experience; to demonstrate that an important part of engineering is to brainstorm solutions and test the ones that seem most promising.

Live Action Segment (Building a Dam) Kids make a stream down an incline using a hose and then do some dam building. They experiment with different materials and try to stop the path of the flowing water.

Curious George's Low High Score

George can't understand why his high score of 257 isn't a winner when he plays his first game of mini-golf with Steve and Betsy. How can a small number be worth more than a big number? After getting the lowdown on the principles of mini-golf, George is determined to get a low score next time, and so he builds his own mini-golf course for practice.

Educational Objective (Math): To help develop an understanding that sometimes a high number isn't always the best or most desirable.

Live Action Segment (Setting Up Shop) Kids create their own store where they sell items to each other at different prices. Two teams of kids are given just 5 dollars and they decide what food to buy.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Invent!

 

Episode 116

Curious George Sees Stars

George is determined to count all the stars in the sky, but he just can't stay awake long enough to finish. And when he goes back to the city it's even more difficult — the stars have disappeared! Will George be able to come up with a system to keep track of his count? And exactly where do all the stars go when George goes to the city?

Educational Objective (Math): To aid in counting with understanding and recognizing "how many" in sets of objects.

Live Action Segment (Counting Kids) Kids play some counting games! How many kids have left the morning circle to hide? How many chairs are in the room? How many blocks are in the jar? Only counting can give the answer.

Curious George Gets a Trophy

As a reward for helping him wash dishes at the restaurant, Chef Pisghetti gives George an ice cream sculpture in the shape of Gnocchi the cat. George really wants to show The Man with the Yellow Hat his new trophy, but the ice cream keeps melting! After a few melted dishes, George learns a whole lot about what happens to ice cream outside of the freezer.

Educational Objective (Science): To illustrate that solids can be changed to liquids by adding heat (melting) and liquids can be changed to solids by taking heat away (freezing).

Live Action Segment (Making Ice Cream) Using a hand-cranked ice cream maker, ice, rock salt, sugar, and cream, kids make ice cream. They witness the gradual melting of the ice and freezing of the ice cream.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Curious Pancakes

 

Episode 117

George Makes a Stand

To earn money for a new soccer ball, George decides to set up his own lemonade stand. With help from Betsy, the stand is such a success that there are too many customers and not enough lemonade. In the nick of time, George remembers a trick that the Doorman showed him — make two glasses out of one by dividing. All the customers are satisfied, and now all George has to figure out is how to explain to The Man with the Yellow Hat what happened to all his lemonade.

Educational Objective (Math): To help develop an understanding of commonly used fractions; to help develop an understanding of situations that entail division (such as sharing equally).

Live Action Segment (Dividing Juice) After some athletic play, four kids are tired and THIRSTY. They open the fridge to find only THREE bottles of juice, so the kids have to figure out a way to share.

Curious George Sees the Light

A new traffic light is installed on the country road, and George decides that it would really work a lot better with a few adjustments. But George's fixes don't have the desired effect — traffic gets backed up, and even Jumpy can't get across the street to find his nuts! George has to work with Officer Quint to fix the light and get a better understanding of just what those red, yellow, and green lights mean.

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate that there can be more than one reasonable explanation for the same set of data.

Live Action Segment (Smart Signs) Kids make some signs that use just pictures, no words. They post their signs and watch to see if they work.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Bubble Stuff

 

Episode 118

Candy Counter

Eating candy is easy, but counting and sorting it is much more difficult! George quickly learns this when he agrees to watch Cayley's candy counter for an afternoon. While trying to stack the chocolates into different shapes, they all fall over, and George can't remember which candy is what! With help from a few customers, and a little sampling, George discovers how to sort the candies by color and shape.

Educational Objective (Math): To demonstrate sorting and classifying sets of objects (or animals) by size, number, and other characteristics (properties); to model building, sorting, and the comparing of two- and three-dimensional shapes.

Live Action Segment (Sorting Stuff) Kids visit a children's museum where they have been "hired" for the day to help organize and stock the shop that sells recycled materials. They have to sort barrels of industrial widgets and craft materials by size and price.

Curious George, Rescue Monkey

George is inspired to become a volunteer with the fire department when they help him get his foot unstuck from a chair. He spends the day with Andie, Stig, and Stew of Rescue Squad 86 and has fun trying out all the special firefighting tools. But when Compass gets trapped at the museum, a little monkey ends up being the best tool for the job.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To illustrate the importance of using the right tool for the task.

Live Action Segment (Cool Tools) Kids help put together a broken table. They get a chance to use some simple, safe tools like glue, sandpaper, a screwdriver, and a mallet.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Sort It Out

 

Episode 119

The Truth About George Burgers

George accidentally loses a batch of Chef Pisghetti's newest creation: Giardino Burgers. And they need to be delivered to the Fireman's Picnic right away. Can George save the day by re-creating the Chef's recipe?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate the importance of planning and following directions in order to get things done.

Live Action Segment (Paper Maché) Kids are making a recipe for papier maché. How much water? How much paste? Different amounts produce different results.

Curious George in the Dark

Most of the time, George isn't afraid of the dark, but when he explores a mysterious cave, he decides that sometimes the dark can be a little scary. It doesn't get any better when a thunderstorm knocks the power out, and the country house is in the dark. But with the help of his trusty flashlight, George conquers his fears and even shows Jumpy how to have some fun with shadows.

Educational Objective (Science): To explore how the size and shape of an object's shadow changes depending on the relationship between the location of the object and the location of the light source.

Live Action Segment (Scary Shadows) Kids make a playhouse by draping sheets over a big dining table. Inside, they experiment with flashlights to make shadows (particularly SCARY shadows!).

Related Parent-Child Activity: Marvelous Meringues

 

Episode 120

The Clean, Perfect Yellow Hat

The yellow hat comes back from the dry cleaners so beautiful and clean that George can't help wanting to show it off to Compass the pigeon. But a little wind and an errant branch create a hole that needs to be fixed before The Man with the Yellow Hat comes home and finds it.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To model the idea of exploring various materials and their characteristics (properties) when looking to repair or create an object.

Live Action Segment (Many Hats) Kids use all kinds of materials to make and decorate hats. They talk about the different materials and what they can achieve with them, and then they have a hat fashion show.

Bee Is for Bear

While exploring the country, George meets up with a baby bear and a stinging bee. No one believes that George has seen a bear, but they do try to help George learn more about bees. It takes a helping hand from the baby bear to save the bunnies from the bees and to prove to everyone that George knows a bear when he sees one.

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate that an organism's behavioral patterns are related to several things: the nature of the organism's environment, other organisms present, and the availability of food and resources.

Live Action Segment (Animal Homes) Kids visit a wildlife sanctuary where they are on a quest to see animal homes. With the guidance of a naturalist, they see insect and animal homes on the ground and in trees.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Invent!

 

Episode 121

Surprise Quints

It's Mr. Quint's birthday, and everyone is helping with preparations for a surprise party. But Mr. Quint comes home early from his fishing trip, so George is assigned the job of keeping him busy until it's time for the party. The job gets even more complicated when four of Mr. Quint's siblings arrive, and they are all having the same birthday — could they be quintuplets? And can you keep five Quints happy with only twelve fish crackers to eat?

Educational Objective (Math): To aid in counting with understanding and recognizing "how many" in sets of objects; to help develop an understanding of situations that entail division (such as sharing equally).

Live Action Segment (Chair Chart) Kids make a plan for how to arrange the chairs to accommodate everyone participating in a poetry reading. A second group of kids then uses that plan to actually arrange the room.

Muddy Monkey

The Man with the Yellow Hat just can't figure out why George refuses to take a bath. What he doesn't realize is that George has lost his favorite bath toy, Sproingy the Frog. And until George finds Sproingy, all the shower games, car washes, and dog washes aren't going to do a bit of good. Unless, of course, the dog being washed happens to be playing with a very special bubble-making frog.

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate that bubbles are made of air surrounded by a very thin film; to demonstrate that no matter what the shape of the bubble maker, the shape of a free-floating bubble is a sphere.

Live Action Segment (Big Bubbles) Kids mix water and detergent and figure out ways to make bubbles using a variety of objects. They talk about the different characteristics (properties) of bubbles, and how — no matter what the shape of the opening — the bubbles always come out round.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Bubble Stuff

 

Episode 122

Curious George Takes a Vacation

The Man with the Yellow Hat and George are off to the airport to start their vacation. When they get there, they discover that all the flights are delayed, and there's a long wait ahead. But with sliding doors, moving sidewalks, luggage carousels, and beeping carts, George decides that the airport is a great place to spend his whole vacation.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To help develop an understanding that people and goods can be transported in many different ways.

Live Action Segment (Market Machines) Kids visit a grocery store that has technology and techniques for moving stuff around, like the delivery system that bring groceries to the pick-up area.

Curious George and the One That Got Away

George and Mr. Quint discover a fresh water eel in the waters of Lake Wanasink Lake. When Bill finds out, he proposes a contest to see who can catch it first. George has no fishing pole, so he makes one from things he finds around the house. He's determined to catch the eel so he can set it free.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate using objects found around the house to design solutions to a problem.

Live Action Segment (Building a House) Kids are given a wide range of materials, and they decide to make a house. They talk about their design decisions and how the materials served their building purposes.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Let's Build

 

Episode 123

Ski Monkey

When a blizzard covers the country house with a foot of snow, George can't wait to get outside to play. But he soon finds that such deep snow isn't easy for a monkey to play in. Then he learns how much fun it can be to ski, snowshoe, and sled.

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate that spreading out the weight of an object on a soft surface like snow keeps the object from sinking in.

Live Action Segment (Snowshoes & Sleds) There's a lot of snow on the ground, and kids are out experiencing some of the same things George does. They try to figure out ways to get ON TOP of the snow without sinking into it.

George the Grocer

George really wants the toy oven he sees in the window at the toy store, but first he has to find a job to earn money to buy it. Since neither Chef Pisghetti nor Mr. Glass need help, George decides to go to work at the Grocery Store. While George is pretty proud of the job he does helping customers, the grocer is pretty confused about who is causing such chaos in the aisles.

Educational Objective (Math): To help develop skills in describing relative positions in space and in applying ideas about relative position.

Live Action Segment (Guessing Game) One kid has picked an object in a room, and another kid has to find it by asking questions related to location. Is it in this half of the room? Is it above this shelf? Things get more complicated when they take the game outside to a playground.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Ramp-N-Roll

 

Episode 124

Keep Out Cows

George loves Leslie the cow, but do she and her friends have to keep eating all those beautiful wildflowers that he wants to show The Man with the Yellow Hat? George works against time and the cows' appetites to come up with a wall strong enough to save the flowers.

Educational Objective (Engineering):To illustrate that the strength of a structure depends on the material it is made of and how it is designed.

Live Action Segment (The Ball Wall) Kids are challenged to try to build a wall that will successfully stop a big rolling ball.

Curious George and the Missing Piece

When George discovers a bone buried in the ground, he's convinced it's got to be part of a dinosaur skeleton — but which one? When none of the dinosaurs in the museum are missing a piece, George uses his best scientific sleuthing skills to match the bone to the animal. Is the bone from a completely new kind of animal? And why is Charkie always chasing after him to steal that bone away?

Educational Objectives (Science): To help develop an understanding that the shape of a bone is related to its function, and the size of a bone is related to the size of the animal from which it came.

Live Action Segment (Back Bones) Kids visit a museum of natural history to learn about the differences and similarities found among the bones of animals. They look at examples of the same type of bone from animals of various sizes, and talk about how the skeleton of a creature determines how it can move.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Let's Build

 

Episode 125

Camping With Hundley

George loves his very first camping trip so much that he wants to go again as soon as possible. But The Man with the Yellow Hat is just too busy, so the Doorman volunteers to take George and Hundley in his fancy trailer with GPS, satellite dish, and microwave. When a thunderstorm knocks out the power, George comes to the rescue by using his old-fashioned camping tools to help them make it through the rainy night and back home safely.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To illustrate the importance of choosing the right tool for the task and using it correctly.

Live Action Segment (Orienteering) Kids learning about Orienteering — a sport with a course, checkpoints, a compass, a map, and a timer — perform a simple route.

Curious George vs. The Turbo Python 3000

George isn't tall enough to ride the greatest rollercoaster of all time, The Turbo Python 3000. He uses licorice whips to measure his height and determines that he is seven-whips tall, one short of the eight-whip minimum! As he nibbles on his licorice, George looks for different ways to grow. His efforts seem to pay off when he measures himself again, but then he realizes that it's not that his legs are longer, it's that his stomach is fuller.

Educational Objectives (Math): To help develop an understanding of the process of measuring and comparing using standard or nonstandard units of measure.

Live Action Segment (Measuring) Kids try to measure the width of a room in hops. Trouble is, each kid hops a different number. The kids then measure each other using shoes. One shoe emerges as the standard, and its owner goes on a measuring spree.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Pattern Play

 

Episode 126

Housebound!

George learns the hard way about bones when he falls at the museum while exploring a dinosaur skeleton and breaks his leg. A visit to the hospital, a cast on his leg, and a cane aren't enough to keep George down, especially when Hundley steps in to help.

Educational Objective (Science): To explore how vertebrates have internal skeletons made of bone; to help develop an understanding of how a bone heals itself.

Live Action Segment (Drawing Bones) Kids feel their own bodies to figure out what shape their bones are and talk about what bones do and why they're important. Then they trace each other's bodies and fill in the outlines with what they think their bones look like.

Curious George Rides a Bike

George loves his new bike, especially because it gives him the chance to help Bill with his paper route. But he gets distracted by some ducks, makes some paper boats out of the newspapers, and then, trying to fix his mistake, hits a big rock that bends his bicycle wheel out of shape. Can Mrs. Renkins find the right tools to help him fix his bike so he can find some dry papers, finish the paper route, and keep his promise to Bill?

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To demonstrate the importance of using the correct tool to adjust and repair things.

Live Action Segment (Fixing Bikes) Kids learn how to repair their own bikes. They fix a flat tire and learn about the tools used to accomplish the job.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Wheel Discoveries

 

Episode 127

The All-Animal Recycled Band

George recruits Charkie, Gnocchi, Hundley, and Compass to play in a band inspired by the firefighters at Rescue Squad 86. For instruments, George gets creative and uses keys, rice in a milk carton, a birdseed canister with rubber bands, and a pie tin. Now all he has to do is figure out a way to get two dogs, a cat, and a bird to play music together.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To model the idea of creating new objects using found and recycled materials.

Live Action Segment (Wind Chimes) Kids use found materials to make wind chimes. Some materials make satisfying sounds, others don't. Kids use string, sticks, tape, and whatever allows them to hang items that will be affected by the wind to create sound.

The Times of Sand

George and The Man with the Yellow Hat have a sandcastle contest at the beach. With the help of Bill and Momma Bunny, George builds a great castle and learns about how to avoid losing your castle to the incoming tide.

Educational Objectives (Science): To illustrate that tides are natural events, and that they occur in repeated, predictable patterns.

Live Action Segment (Low Tide) Kids decide to take a walk at low tide and see what kinds of creatures they can find. With the help of a teacher and a knowledgeable dad, they find that some interesting sea life is exposed when the tide is out.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Invent!

 

Episode 128

The Elephant Upstairs

George hears a loud thumping sound coming from the ceiling of their apartment and becomes convinced that the new upstairs neighbor has an elephant for a pet. When The Man with the Yellow Hat points out how unlikely that is, George decides to investigate further and comes to the conclusion that if it's not an elephant, it must be a Galapagos Turtle who eats a lot of crackers, likes to wrap presents, and uses a juicer. When they finally pay their new neighbor a visit, the real story is even more interesting than George's theory.

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate that different objects can produce sounds that are similar in volume and pitch.

Live Action Segment (Sounds Like…) Kids play a game where each player must guess what a sound is without being able to see what's making it. Kids talk about the characteristics (properties) of the sounds and why some are familiar and others are not.

Being Hundley

George gets tired of being a monkey because monkeys have to clean their rooms, brush their teeth, and go to bed early. He experiments with being a cat and a pigeon, but decides that the best of all is to be a dog like Hundley. Hundley is not at all happy with this plan, but he doesn't manage to convince George that there's room for only one lobby dog at this apartment building. It takes an elevator getting stuck between floors to help George realize that being a monkey can be pretty useful in a pinch.

Educational Objectives (Science): To demonstrate that the form and behaviors of each kind of animal are related to each animal's needs.

Live Action Segment (Tamarins and Mandrills) Kids visit a zoo to learn about Tamarins with the help of a zoo interpreter. They make drawings and talk about the behavior and habitats of the primates.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Feel The Wind

 

Episode 129

George Fixes Betsy's Wagon

George and Steve borrow Betsy's wagon to pick up a package, but on the way they lose a wheel. To replace the wheel, they experiment with a piece of wood, some roller skates, and baby carriage wheels. Can they find some way to keep that wagon rolling? And what's in that giant package anyhow?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To explore the system of wheels and axles that makes a wagon work correctly.

Live Action Segment (Rolling Wheels) Kids work in teams to build wheeled vehicles out of a variety of materials. The ultimate test will be how successfully the vehicles roll!

Curious George Takes a Dive

George makes friends with a turtle down at Lake Wanasink Lake, but worries that because the turtle has no thumbs, it's going to get a lot of water up its nose when it goes into the lake. The solution is to bring the turtle home and keep it in the bathtub. But the turtle is just not happy in the bathtub, and when George brings home fish and weeds and frogs from the lake to keep it company, The Man with the Yellow Hat isn't very happy either.

Educational Objectives (Science): To demonstrate that various plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments, and have structures and functions that help them thrive in these environments.

Live Action Segment (Habitats) With the help of a zoo interpreter, kids learn about the differences between a dry habitat and a wet habitat, as well as how different animals are well adapted for each.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Wheel Discoveries

 

Episode 130

Unbalanced

The Amazing Balancing Zucchinis come to town, and George realizes that there's nothing he wants more in life than to be an acrobat. But before he can join the troupe, he needs to learn a lot more about balance and help save an allergic tightrope walker from a very determined cat.

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate how balance is affected by the amount and position of weight, and by the position of the fulcrum (point of support).

Live Action Segment (Balancing on Bikes) Kids are visited by a troupe of stunt cyclists who talk about balance and demonstrate some simple balancing tricks.

Curious George vs. Winter

Winter is closing in and George is miserable...how's he going to survive without all the fun summertime activities he loves? When he decides to ignore the weather and play with his wading pool and his bubbles, he learns some interesting things about freezing and melting.

Educational Objectives (Science): To illustrate that water freezes into ice when it is cooled and that ice melts into water when it is heated.

Live Action Segment (Ice Shapes) Kids pour water into containers of different shapes to make ice. The next day, they release the ice and have a nice assortment of shapes to build with. (They also play a game of hockey in which the puck IS the ice!)

Related Parent-Child Activity: Marvelous Meringues

 

Episode 201

Up, Up and Away

A tether, a basket, and a heap of hot air: George discovers that it takes all three for a balloon to score a successful lift-off. As Mrs. Renkins demonstrates how a hot-air balloon works, George and Bill bound into the basket and they soon find themselves accidentally airborne - alone! Will Mrs. Renkins and The Man with the Yellow Hat ever catch up with the flying duo? Not before George and Bill's windy flight path carries them on quite an adventure - and toward an array of feathered friends who land on their basket. And when one of the birds gets trapped in the balloon, it gives them the idea they need to help get them down to earth.

Educational Objective (Science): To show that wind/air can push things, that wind may have variable direction and speed, and that birds, and humans, use the power of the wind for movement. Also to demonstrate that hot-air balloons are wind-powered vehicles that may be controlled for altitude by changing the load weight (ballast), or heating/cooling the air inside the balloon.

Live Action Segment (Balloons) In order not to lose their helium balloons on a windy day, the children tie heavy objects of varying weights to the end of the string and figure out how to give the balloons enough ballast to float but not float away.

Skunked

There's a strange-looking cat eating George's peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But wait, it's not a cat, it's a skunk! And George is fascinated. After trying and failing to make friends with the creature several times - and being subjected to multiple baths of tomato juice after repeatedly getting "skunked" - George is relieved to get back to the city and away from all of those smelly encounters. What he doesn't realize is that he and The Man inadvertently brought along their new "friend" in a picnic basket - and that one little skunk is about to wreak a whole lot of havoc in a certain apartment building.

Educational Objectives (Science): To understand that all animals have needs for food, water, shelter, and a compatible habitat, and that all animals have characteristics and behaviors that aid in their survival. Also to demonstrate some specific characteristics and behaviors of one type of animal including their unique defense mechanism.

Live Action Segment (Squirrel Search) The kids spend a day observing squirrels in a park. They discover why squirrels have certain behaviors and examine the squirrels' need for food, shelter, and water.

Related Parent-Child Activity: On A Hike

 

Episode 202

Monkey Underground

When George stumbles across a gopher hole in the field near the country house, he suddenly finds himself inside a secret world of underground tunnels. Just below the mounds, Mama, Papa, and Junior Gopher have found a hiding place away from Mr. Gopher Getter - the man who plans to de-gopher the entire field. George warns his new pals about the looming trap. But only if George can dig super monkey-fast, and in the correct direction, will he be able to save his gopher friends from being removed from their home.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate that the natural world and human-made world have different systems.

Live Action Segment (Sand Tunnels) The kids build tunnels on the beach. They discover what happens when you make a big tunnel with only a thin ceiling and experiment with reinforcing the tunnel to support the incoming tide.

Cat Mother

Professor Wiseman entrusts George with Lucky, a tiny kitten too young to take care of herself. It's love at first sight for Lucky when she meets her first dog - Hundley, the proud lobby dachshund. But it's not such a fast friendship for Hundley, who sneezes when Lucky affectionately rubs against him. Hundley's allergic to cats! Lucky is inconsolable, having to stay away from her new friend, so George decides to build a substitute dog for Lucky. Can George use his sharp investigation and engineering skills to create an exact Hundley replica?

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To model that asking questions and making observations helps humans design solutions to meet needs and wants.

Live Action Segment (Building Bugs) Third Graders are given the challenge of making toy bugs for a first grade class. The younger children give specifications to the older children who must build the bugs as per design.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Monkey Made

 

Episode 203

Up A Tree

When George tires of table manners and house rules, he decides to build a tree house in the country yard - a nest of his own where using his feet to eat corn on the cob and to paint on the walls would be perfectly acceptable. Armed with his Handy Monkey Tool Set, George gathers as many building materials as possible. But he quickly learns that creating a house from scratch just might take more than a pile of plywood and a handful of nails. What he needs is a design plan to make this work - and forgiveness for accidentally stealing supplies from Quint's dock and Mrs. Renkin's chicken coop!

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate how to follow a plan to get things done.

Live Action Segment The kids visit an architectural firm and learn about the process of design as it relates to building construction. The architect presents the plan, section and elevation for a building which they then go and visit.

Curious George and the Trash

Just as he is preparing to have his new driver's license photo taken, The Man with the Yellow Hat suddenly finds himself hatless - thanks to George, who accidentally crushes it. After dropping the hat off at the dry-cleaner to have it fixed, The Man asks George to wait at home for it to be delivered while he goes on a neighborhood jog. But when the hat arrives, George mistakes it for a look-a-like garbage box and tosses it down the trash chute. George's desperate attempt to recover his friend's most prized possession leads the monkey on a race through the labyrinth of the city's garbage system.

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To teach that garbage pick up is a system designed by humans to keep the city a healthy clean place to live.

Live Action Segment (Recycling) The kids visit a recycling facility and see different stages of the recycling process. They look at how plastic and papers get sorted and learn how some materials may be reused to produce something new.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Build A House

 

Episode 204

Curious George Gets All Keyed Up

Betsy prepares to play the xylophone at a school concert one evening, and George, who has always been mesmerized by Betsy's music, volunteers to deliver the xylophone to Betsy's school while she goes to the beautician that afternoon. Betsy's brother Steve also promises to help, but when he becomes distracted by his videogame, they lose track of time and have to get the xylophone out the door very quickly. So George and Steve take all the keys out in a hurry - and when George gets to the school he realizes that he's forgotten what order they go in! Will George be able to fix the xylophone, or will Betsy's beautiful tunes become suddenly and horribly "out of key?"

Educational Objective (Math): To relate number sequence to size and pitch sequence.

Live Action Segment (Making Music) A musician guides the kids through an exploration of musical scales and sequencing. The children discover the relationship between the size of an instrument and its pitch and make music on glass bottles filled with water.

Gutter Monkey

It's bowling night! George cheers on The Man with the Yellow Hat and then tries to get the ball rolling himself. But when George rolls, it's always a gutter ball. Back at home, George polishes the Man's bowling ball before the big tournament and it looks so good he decides to test it out on the curvy front lawn - but all of those ruts and hills can sure ruin a monkey's game! And things don't exactly look up, er, straight, when George takes it inside and discovers that a smooth surface in the dining room can spell trouble for the plates in the china cabinet. Will George be able to get the ball under control and to the bowling alley in time for the Man's competition?

Educational Objectives (Science): To explore how the behavior of a rolling ball including its velocity, acceleration, and momentum varies depending on the slant and texture of the surface it rolls on, and/or on the strength of the exerted force used to push it.

Live Action Segment (Bowling) At a bowling outing, children explore different rolling techniques and what results in the longest and straightest roll.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Size Them Up

 

Episode 205

Grease Monkey in Space

The Man with the Yellow Hat's dream of space travel is finally coming true! He's been assigned to repair a large telescope, but on the day of the big launch Professors Wiseman, Pizza and Einstein realize that it's actually a two-man - or rather, a one-man and one-monkey - job. Soon it's up to George to complete the mission and replace the telescope's batteries. George has only a few minutes before his air runs out to accomplish his task and remember his right, his left and his shapes. Can George save the day or will the space walk turn into a space "whoops?"

Educational Objective (Engineering): To understand that tools are simple objects that help humans complete tasks.

Live Action Segment The kids use tools such as screwdrivers, nuts, bolts and a wrench to build a doghouse.

Piñata Vision

When George attends Betsy's birthday party he is ready for a day of fun with friends. Steve and Betsy blindfold George and give him the first shot at breaking open the birthday piñata - but when George swings the bat without any sense of where he's aiming, he makes a grand mess instead. To help George improve his game, Steve blindfolds George and sets him off to try and find Charkie - and George navigates his way around the city by using only his hands, ears and sense of touch. His adventure leads him to some familiar places and ultimately back to the sweet piñata prize!

Educational Objectives (Science): To experience the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell as ways of exploring and navigating in the world and to understand that each sense provides a unique perspective through which we may interpret the environment.

Live Action Segment At a school, a group of kids do their morning sharing without speaking and in the process learn about their senses. They use their hands and drawings to communicate and attempt to eat jello while blindfolded.

Related Parent-Child Activity: On the Job

 

Episode 206

All New Hundley

Although they are friends, George and Hundley are quite different. George loves nothing better than bounding about and exploring new things, while Hundley loves to guard his lobby and maintain order. So on one morning George is very surprised to find Hundley bouncing, running and playing all around the apartment building. And when this "new fun" Hundley makes a total mess of his beloved lobby, George knows that all is not what it seems. But how can he prove it? Using his camera and his sharp investigative skills, George sets out to solve the mystery. Has George's proud friend changed personalities - or could there be a look-a-like Hundley on the premises?

Educational Objective (Science): To demonstrate inquiry as a process of finding out about the world and solving problems. To show that inquiry includes a variety of skills like observing, questioning, predicting, investigating, collecting information, recording and representing, and analyzing information based on multiple experiences. Also to model positive attitudes toward learning like persistence and curiosity.

Live Action Segment (Looking at Leaves) The kids compare different kinds of leaves they see in the park and look for seeds that come from trees.

Signs Up

Deciding that a collection of signs would make a cool display for his room, George sets out to gather them from all around town. But when people start losing their way and go in the wrong directions, George realizes how important signs are and starts putting them back - but not quite in their proper places. As a result, things get even more chaotic. Can George figure out where the signs are supposed to go so that the picnickers stop eating in the bears' den and the bicyclists don't run over the ducks in the animal crossing??

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To understand that symbols are used as a means of communication.

Live Action Segment (Traffic Signs) A teacher creates a road course for the kids on their scooters. The kids learn the importance of traffic signs in navigating a busy intersection.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Snapshot

 

Episode 207

Color Me Monkey

Mr. Glass is looking for a one-of-a-kind painting for his lobby and Mr. Zoobel knows just where to find such art - at the zoo, naturally! George and Charkie go along to meet SooBerm, the truly unique painting elephant who has her own style. But when Charkie causes a rip in the SooBerm painting for Mr. Glass's lobby, George must re-create the masterpiece so that no one discovers that the original is ruined. But first he has to figure out how to replicate the unique colors SooBerm used in her art. Could combining primary colors to create entirely new ones be the answer?

Educational Objective (Math): To observe that liquids, due to their property of flow, can be combined and their colors can be mixed. To understand that by mixing the primary colors in different amounts that many other colors can be created and that this process is consistent and predictable.

Live Action Segment The kids explore mixing colors and using household objects to make different kinds of marks and strokes.

Special Delivery Monkey

After lunch at Pisghetti's restaurant, George and The Man with the Yellow Hat finish their meal with a round of the Wild Goose Chase board game. The Man explains to George that moving ahead three spaces means not counting on the space he started on - a lesson which comes in handy when George is asked to help Chef Pisghetti by delivering a very special pie to a very special meeting. Along the way, George counts bus stops and buildings - and realizes that the rules of the board game are the same rules for following directions. His counting skills pay off as he arrives just in time for the Chef to deliver a pie in the face!

Educational Objectives (Math): To deepen children's knowledge of the counting sequence (from 1 to 10) and the ways this sequence can be used to solve addition problems.

Live Action Segment A math teacher tells a counting story to the class and the kids must catch him "counting on" wrong and correct him. Then they play a game called "Trash" where the kids use their understanding of counting sequences to fill in missing card numbers.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Mix and Paint

 

Episode 208

Free Hundley

If there ever was a dignified dog, it was Hundley. But once flea season begins Hundley's dignity goes right out the window - right along with his collar! - which lands him in the local pet shelter. While a caring stranger and friendly shelter director make Hundley a new home, George, Gnocchi and Charkie join forces to try and rescue the dapper dachshund and return him to his old life. Will the furry crew be able to follow an organized plan and free their friend - or will the trio find themselves under lock and key right along with Hundley?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate that people plan in order to get things done. To understand that systems have parts that work together to accomplish a goal.

Live Action Segment The kids learn how keys work when they go to the locksmith shop to have an old door lock repaired. The locksmith takes apart the broken door latch, diagnoses the problem and fixes it so that the key will turn.

Bag Monkey

Just putting his toys away in an organized manner is a challenge for George - so he faces an incredible test when he represents the City Grocer in the local "Bag Olympics" for bagging groceries! Toys are one thing, but fitting canned ham, eggs and paper towels neatly into the same bag may prove too tall an order - especially with the overly confident Rodney from Large Mart packing in the next corner. But then again, if George can practice at home by fitting together the shapes of his stuffed camel and muscle man together, what's a little salami and cheese?

Educational Objectives (Math): To explore how simple shapes can be assembled into more complex shapes.

Live Action Segment The kids work with a teacher on a Tangram activity. A Tangram is a set of simple shapes that can be assembled into a square and other designs. The kids must figure out how to arrange the shapes to match the diagrams they see.

Related Parent-Child Activity: What's That Shape

 

Episode 209

Monkey Stagehand

Bill needs some help behind the scenes of the town talent show and George happily volunteers. So Bill shows George the ropes, literally, and the two friends practice working the pulleys that control the curtains and scenery, and the levers for the stage trapdoors. After a few mishaps in rehearsal George takes extra care and practice in preparing for the show, and on the big night everything goes smoothly - until Bill falls through a trap door and ends up beneath the stage, leaving George alone! But knowing that the show must go on, George gathers up his courage, ingenuity - and all his hands and feet - to prove that he is an outstanding stagehand after all.

Educational Objective (Engineering): To demonstrate that systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal.

Live Action Segment The kids experiment with pulleys and ropes in the back yard. They set up a pulley system and pass different things of varying weights back and forth across the yard.

The Magic Garden

Chef Pisghetti is running low on fresh vegetables and George tries to help by weeding the Chef's rooftop garden. George doesn't know greenery, however, and ends up pulling out all of the vegetables right along with the weeds! Now the Chef must replant everything and wait for the vegetables to grow. But George doesn't want Chef Pisghetti to have to close the restaurant, so he replaces the seeds with vegetables from his refrigerator at home. Will the Chef discover that what made his garden grow overnight wasn't in fact magic fertilizer - but a hairy elf?

Educational Objectives (Science & Math): To understand that the vegetables we eat are parts of plants and that plants may be cultivated for this purpose. Also to understand that plants are living things, and as such have survival needs like water, nutrients, and sun in order to grow and reproduce. Lastly to identify seeds as one way in which plants reproduce, that seed-bearing plants produce their own seeds, and to discover that the seeds from a plant will always grow into adult plants resembling the parent.

Live Action Segment (Planting Peas) The kids visit a small farm and learn how to plant and grow snap peas. They revisit the farm months later and get to taste what they planted.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Pogo-A-Gogo

 

Episode 210

Curious George, Plumber's Helper

George is bored with all of his bath toys so he brings some new ones into the tub with him. What he doesn't realize is that not all toys float, and when he drains the water some of them spiral down the drain and cause a clog. So it's Mr. Auger, Plumber Extraordinaire, to the rescue! George loves to watch Mr. Auger work, and for being an adoring fan, George gets a few plumbing lessons from the professional. The next time the drain is clogged, George thinks he can fix the problem by himself - only he forgets to tighten the pipes and soon water is overflowing all over the apartment building!

Educational Objective (Engineering): To show that when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

Live Action Segment Using PVC pipes and a garden hose, the kids build a complex tube system to send water through. They send small objects through, which clogs the system and necessitates some further investigation.

Curious George Takes a Hike

Bill and the Man with the Yellow Hat are excited for their big hike. Bill is looking forward to collecting leaves and the Man wants to do nature drawings for his art class. George doesn't find any of these activities to be very exciting and longs to see some real action - which he gets when Bill and the Man fall off a small cliff, get stuck on a ledge, and need George to go find help. George needs to use the Man's numbered drawings of the landmarks they passed along the way, to try and find his way back to the Ranger Station for help. But will he be able to find the Man's beloved Yellow Hat which blew away?

Educational Objectives (Math): To explore mapping as a way to locate a destination and points of interest along the way. Also to show that using numbered drawings of location cues helps navigate backwards through a wilderness.

Live Action Segment (Treasure Maps) A group of kids in the park use a hand drawn map with landmarks to try and find a hidden treasure.

Related Parent-Child Activity: On A Hike

 

Episode 211

The Fully Automatic Monkey Fun Hat

George wants to have a hat as fun as the Man with the Yellow Hat's yellow hat. But picking the right headgear is hard, and no one seems to recognize him in a fedora or Bavarian fishing hat. After a day of unsuccessful hat shopping George takes matters into his own hands and makes a super hat from craft supplies and toys right at home. Using levers, pop-up techniques and some trial and error, George engineers the Ultimate Yellow Monkey Fun Hat - fully equipped with food dispenser, prop launcher, and animal inflator. But what will happen when the Man accidentally wears the monkey hat at his big presentation?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To show that everyone can design solutions to a problem, and that design is a creative process.

Live Action Segment The kids use household supplies to design big fun hats. They begin with a design on paper and then execute their unique creations.

Creatures of the Night

George thought it was odd that all the food was gone from the bird feeder in a single night. Who or what is eating it all? Could the small animal tracks be a clue? Determined to solve the mystery George stays up all night and finds a baby possum who has lost his family. The two set off on a night journey to find the possum's home and meet some other nocturnal animals (and some very tired "day animals"!) on the way. And because their night shadows strike a scary resemblance to the legendary Lake Creature of Lake Wanasink Lake - whose tale Mr. Quint is broadcasting to the entire town on this same night - the furry twosome cause quite a stir.

Educational Objectives (Science): To illustrate some nocturnal animals, in contrast to diurnal, and their habits, specifically opossums. Also to show some specific characteristics of opossums; how and where they live, what they eat, some sounds and behaviors, defense mechanisms, and their relationships to some other animals.

Live Action Segment The kids learn about nocturnal animal behavior by performing a play called "Creatures of the Night." They wear costumes for the various nighttime animals and explain what they do at night and where they hide during the day. In creating characters based on real creatures, the kids learn about nocturnal animal behavior.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Plastic Bottle Birdfeeder

 

Episode 212

Scaredy Dog

Its time to store away some of George's toys in the basement, so George and Hundley venture into the deep downstairs - only to find themselves being scared off by a Big Creepy Noise they keep hearing. Where is it coming from? Could it be an evil robot... or a monster with a blender?! When even the Man and the Doorman get spooked, George and Hundley decide to be brave and use George's toy tape recorder and microphone to try and locate and de-code the sound. Will the terrified twosome ever find the source... or will the Noise find them first?

Educational Objective (Science): To explore how the volume and clarity of a sound may change depending on one's distance from the source of the sound, and/or by covering or muffling the sound (covering one's ears for example.) Also to introduce tools that are used to copy (tape player) or magnify (megaphone) sound.

Live Action Segment (Silly Sounds) The kids use a tape recorder with a speaker to record and play back various sounds in their environment. They play a guessing game with the sounds and talk about what they think the sounds might be.

Say Goodnight, George

George is out playing ball when the Man with the Yellow Hat calls him in for bedtime. But who can sleep when the sun is still out? The Man explains that in spring there's more daylight, so it's lighter at bedtime. And when he shows George how to set a clock, George likes this idea so much he takes time into his own hands and changes the clocks to accommodate his monkey play schedule. But now the Man is always late to his appointments to meet Mr. Ruffweek, the blimp owner - and if George doesn't set time straight again the two may miss a fun opportunity of a lifetime.

Educational Objectives (Science): To introduce the idea of increasing hours of daylight in summer months relative to winter months. Also to provide specific information about clocks as a way to measure time; how clock time can be adjusted, how alarms can be set, and different types of clocks.

Live Action Segment The kids visit a clock repair shop and explore how clocks work. They learn about how weights work in a cuckoo clock and see the inner workings of a spring powered clock. Once outside they explore how the sun can also be used to tell time.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Cows Don't Quack

 

Episode 213

A Bridge to Farm

When George sees six stranded chicks on an island in a pond it's monkey to the rescue! George tries out several plans. Floating on his back as a monkey life raft is only temporarily successful so George looks for design inspiration in the local railroad and truss bridges. Using marshmallows, toothpicks and playing cards George constructs and then reconstructs a bridge strong enough to support one, then two, and then all six loud peeping chicks - and even the Mother Hen!

Educational Objective (Engineering): To show that structures are made up of parts.

Live Action Segment (Candy Bridge) The kids use materials such as marshmallows, toothpicks and red candy to build bridges between two surfaces. They experiment with different building designs and then test the bridge's strength by seeing how many marbles in a cup it can hold.

Monkey Fever

The Man with the Yellow Hat always takes such good care of George, so when the Man comes down with a terrible case of the sniffles, George wants to return the favor. But how? He decides to try his own brand of monkey medicine to nurse the Man back to health, including setting up the bedroom like a real hospital, feeding the Man's cold and starving his fever, and even playing an impromptu game of charades with the pharmacist to get the proper cold medicine. But as George plays doctor for a day, he notices that the Man's symptoms are peculiarly close to those of Betsy's cat, the new mother of five kittens. Could the Man's illness mean he's anticipating feline fatherhood?

Educational Objectives (Science): To illustrate what it's like to be sick with a cold and some ways to take care of yourself when you are sick; get rest, drink fluids, eat healthy food and, if needed, take medicine. Also to introduce some doctor's tools like thermometers and stethoscopes.

Live Action Segment The kids visit Dr. Shiva Barton, a naturopathic doctor and learn about alternative healing therapies. The doctor shows them pressure points on their bodies and the importance of staying healthy and eating right.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Build A House

 

Episode 214

Curious George, Spy Monkey

Nothing is more fun for George than reading his spy book "Double-Oh Doggy." Unless of course he can become a real Double-Oh Monkey! George goes undercover and follows the Man with the Yellow Hat, trying to solve the mystery of what surprise the Man is going to buy for George. But in order to stay completely hidden George needs proper spy gear like "Double-Oh Doggy." So using recycled materials from home, George builds his very own periscope. George can now stay hidden from the Man as he trails him around town - but will the ever eager Charkie blow his cover?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To learn how mirrors can work as tools.

Live Action Segment Three kids do a variety of activities with mirrors. They explore reflective surfaces in their house, set up a mirror system that allows one person to see another person in different rooms, and make a homemade periscope used to track alien intruders!

Castle Keep

While George practices his golf swing, Bill shows him how a little leverage can send the ball high in the air - much to the dislike of Jumpy Squirrel in the tree! So when George and the Man with the Yellow Hat visit Uncle Tam in Scotland, George is very happy to be able to practice his swing at the Castle Golf Course. But then a pesky squirrel steals his ball and runs off, and George is sent on a wild chase throughout the castle. Luckily, he remembers the principle of leverage, and he's able to pry open windows, pull book cases, spin wheels to lower a bridge and ultimately accomplish the perfect swing not only to retrieve his ball, but to uncover a special family document that will keep the castle in the family's possession.

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To show how leverage (the action of a lever pivoting about a point) works.

Live Action Segment The kids help out in the garden by moving some planters, stones and a tree stump. They use a skateboard as a lever to move the heavy stones and also to transport the objects. The kids demonstrate the importance of using a fulcrum to help move objects.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Tools Count

 

Episode 215

Robot Monkey Hullabaloo

At the museum, George joins Professor Wiseman and the Man with the Yellow Hat on a stroll through an amazing new robot exhibit. Later, after the Man gathers his old robots to add to the collection, George notices how excited Hundley is by his first robot sighting. That's when George gets his most brainy brainstorm yet and decides to make himself into a robot to play with Hundley! Using a hodgepodge of paper, tubes, cardboard boxes, gadgets and even a colander, George glues together an awesome robot outfit that works a little too well and fools even the sharp-witted Professor Wiseman. Will George end up on display at the museum?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To build or construct a structure using the design process and found objects.

Live Action Segment (Real Robots) Using all sorts of fun recycled materials the kids make robots that serve various purposes including a house cleaner, an air blower and a racing robot with a brain.

Curious George and the Slithery Day

George is watching and feeding Mr. Zoobel's gopher snake, Bruno, and mice, Benjy and Willie, for the day. But Mr. Zoobel forgets to tell George that Bruno is about to shed his skin. So when George sees the shed skin he worriedly takes it to the pet store for an explanation, leaving behind the snake with his cage open! And when George comes home the mice escape too. With a little help from Hundley, a wild chase around the building ensues and George gets the animals safely back - learning a lot about snake feeding (and hiding) habits along the way.

Educational Objectives (Science): To provide information about snakes as one type of animal; what it eats, where and how it lives, and some behaviors; the predator/prey relationship. Also to introduce the idea of habitat.

Live Action Segment (Backyard Bugs) The kids look for creatures living in the back yard. They discover centipedes, slugs and a pill bug and explore the habitats they come from.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Dig It

 

Episode 217

Curious George Sinks the Pirates

Hundley, the proud lobby dachshund, is also quite the boats-dog and longs to set sail on the ocean blue. Hundley's dream becomes "reality" one night when he dozes off to sleep - and into a big maritime adventure. Aboard the S. S. Dignified, the most orderly ship to ever set sail, Captain Hundley and his crew - Gnocchi, Charkie, and First Mate George—gear up for a watery quest. Yet it's not exactly smooth sailing when Yellow Hat the Pirate and his crew attempt to take control of the vessel (Arrr!) and his own First Mate almost sinks the ship! Can Captain Hundley stay dignified and save the day?

Educational Objective (Science):To introduce the idea of sinking and floating.

Live Action Segment (Sinking Stuff) The kids play with different objects in a filled kiddy pool. They experiment with why some objects float and others don't. How do you make a floating object sink?

This Little Piggy

For George, Dulson's Toy Store is irresistible, especially since it's where he finds the sailboat of his dreams. But he learns that the boat costs five dollars—and now exactly 500 pennies stand between George and his big dream! After scouring his room and his penny reserve George comes up short, but then sets out to earn the rest of the money by doing everything from house chores to harmonica performances. The Man with the Yellow Hat gives George a special piggy bank in which to store his new savings—and, if George can only find a way to break open the bank to retrieve his funds, he'll discover that 100 nickels saved is indeed one sailboat earned.

Educational Objectives (Math): To understand the value of coins.

Live Action Segment (Coin Counting) A teacher sets up some carnival games in the classroom. Based on the prices of the games, the kids have to understand the concepts of how many pennies are in a nickel, a dime, and finally a quarter.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Glass Palace

 

Episode 218

King Doggie

When a limo pulls up to the doorman's lobby, the Princess of Bratvia steps out and scoops up Hundley, claiming that he is in fact a Royal Doggie! To verify this, the Princess's Aide measures him and sure enough, Hundley's head is three buckles high, his body is four stripes long and, most importantly, he has the purple mark of Bratvian royalty on his proud chest. So her Highness takes Hundley, a.k.a Barkington the Fifteenth, off to his new palace but soon the princely pup grows weary of luxury and longs for his old lobby. So it's up to his friend George to help convince the royals that Hundley, although very dignified, is just a regular dog of the people. True, Hundley's precise measurements are indeed those of a King Doggie - but could the leftover grape jelly on his chest be a clue to his real identity?

Educational Objective (Math):To understand how to use non standard units of measurement.

Live Action Segment (Body Measuring) The kids trace their whole bodies on paper and then use unifix cubes to measure their height. One boy uses popsicle sticks to measure his height. What happens when you don't use the same standard of measurement? The kids line the drawings against the wall in order of height and see if they truly measure up.

The Lucky Cap

George's day goes from bad to worse. He spills a bowl of milk, gets caught in a torrential downpour, and just can't get past that seven square in hopscotch. But then the Man with the Yellow Hat gives George a new cap, and the moment George puts it on his misfortunes turn into windfalls - he finds a shiny quarter, gets a free shopping spree at Dulson's toy store, and wins his first hopscotch game ever! When the Man washes the hat, however, George's bad luck returns - it's shrunk so small that it barely fits on his head! Without the hat, George needs to figure out how to count to 25 in order to win Steve's Ultra Extreme Hopscotch Challenge. Will George discover that brainpower is a force more powerful than luck?

Educational Objectives (Math): To learn to count from 1 to 22 and to count back from 5 to 1.

Live Action Segment (Dice Hopscotch) Three kids create a variation of a hopscotch game called "dice hopscotch." They roll 3 dice with numbers and a "forward backward" die and try to count and hop their way up (and down) thirty squares!

Related Parent-Child Activity: Tools Count

 

Episode 219

Curious George, Sea Monkey

George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are overjoyed when Professors Wiseman, Einstein and Pizza invite them onto a submarine trip to retrieve a small weather satellite that crashed from space. Their first underwater adventure! Along the ocean floor, George and the crew locate the satellite - but a gigantic coral reef stands in the way of its recovery and the only way to get to it is through a tiny tunnel traversable only by a certain monkey. So, clad in a scuba outfit equipped with a camera and microphone, George investigates the wild world of life in a limestone coral reef. George is thrilled with all the colorful sights and sea-life and even makes a few fishy pals - but will the school of small coral sharks he encounters be as friendly?

Educational Objective (Science):To understand that coral reefs are made up of many living creatures.

Live Action Segment (Coral Reef) A group of kids visit the Eco Discovery Center in Key West, Florida and explore a coral reef display with Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau.

Old McGeorgie Had a Farm

Oscar, the Renkin's prize pig, is in the State Finals but a disappointed Mr. Renkins is too busy with the farm to attend the big fair. Enter George and the Man with the Yellow Hat who volunteer to take over his work and save the day! All they have to remember is to collect exactly one gallon of milk from Leslie the cow and divide that gallon into four one-quart bottles, gather a dozen eggs for each carton, and keep track of exactly 6 hens, 8 chicks and 1 rooster. Cinchy! Except that George forgets the most important thing of all - the correct side on which to milk the cow. So a spooked Leslie starts a chain of chaos that has George and the Man scrambling to track down all their charges and stop bedlam in the barnyard.

Educational Objectives (Math): To introduce standard units of measurement.

Live Action Segment The kids help a parent refill a 4 gallon fish tank with water and must put in two drops of conditioner for every gallon. Using containers to measure out cups, quarts and gallons, the kids figure out how much water conditioner to put in.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Count Your Chickens

 

Episode 220

Curious George Beats the Band

At the symphony, George is lost in his daydreams. Inspired by such beautiful music, George imagines playing with Hundley in space among the twinkling stars, and flying from the ocean up to the sky with a friendly Loch Ness monster and a school of happy ducks. So when the symphony maestro announces that George is the winner of the conductor-for-a-day contest, George can't believe his good fortune. He'll be making that wonderful music! But first George must learn the rhythms necessary to conduct an orchestra, and he studies and practices night and day. Sure enough, his debut goes brilliantly - until Charkie mistakes George's baton for a dog toy and the monkey maestro has to play "keep away" without conducting his musicians into a musical frenzy.

Educational Objective (Math):To learn to identify and reproduce patterns in music such as rhythm, pitch and musical notation.

Live Action Segment A group of kids learn about tempo from visiting African drummer Jafar Manselle.

Hats and a Hole

A hard hat, a shovel, a wheelbarrow and a ladder - George learns that all four items are necessary when digging a gigantic hole. But why are George and the Man With the Yellow (Hard) Hat digging in their own yard? It's a surprise, and George will have to wait for the answer while the Man and Mr. Quint go help Flint Quint change a light bulb, taking the ladder with them. But when the hats fall into the hole after a run-in with Jumpy Squirrel, how will George retrieve them? After trying this hat rescue mission with several items which are not quite long enough to reach into the bottom of the hole, George decides that a water hose might do the trick. And when he accidentally turns on the water itself, the ensuing flood turns out to be a spark of genius - not only does the water float the hats to the surface, but George discovers the true purpose for the hole.

Educational Objectives (Science): To introduce the idea that some things float due to their shape and/or the material they are made out of.

Live Action Segment The kids build a floating city in a kiddy pool. They experiment with different ways of making a floating platform by using plastic containers, cardboard and air.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Size Them Up

 

 

Episode 301

Ice Station Monkey

George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are having a blast on their research assignment in the Antarctic! Professor Wiseman has enlisted the pair to help find the nesting grounds of the Chinstrap penguins. Equipped with a video camera, two-way headsets, and a photo of the penguins, our two explorers set out in different directions. George meets a Chinstrap penguin, only to lose his camera to a pesky sea otter who swims away. The Man finds George, and they chase the sea otter by jumping ice floes...and discover too late that a blizzard is approaching! George and the Man find refuge in a cave. When the blizzard passes, they emerge on the other side of the island in the middle of the Chinstrap penguins' nesting ground! Mission accomplished!

Educational Objective (Science):To be introduced to the idea of building a shelter using natural available materials.

Live Action Segment The kids collect sturdy fallen branches in a nature refuge and build a lean-to by leaning branches against the tree trunk. They discuss how they made the structure using only what they found in the woods.

The Perfect Carrot

George and Bill run out of carrots while feeding the rabbits. When Bill pulls a carrot out of the ground, George can't believe it! George wants to grow his own carrots. Armed with a packet of carrot seeds, and guidance from the Man with the Yellow Hat, George plants his garden. After 66 days of tending, watering and keeping Jumpy away, George has a prize-winning carrot! It's so perfect in size, shape, and color, that George carries it around in a fancy telescope case to protect it. George visits Bill's house to show it off, and he learns that the bunnies have gone missing! George joins the search and finds them hungry and scared in a cave. It's a hard decision to make, but George sacrifices his perfect carrot for the bunnies to eat while he finds help. Thanks to George and his "carroty hero," the bunnies are saved and fed.

Educational Objectives (Science): To make a connection between plants, and the food people and animals eat.

Live Action Segment A restaurant chef prepares a meal using locally grown parsnips and local cheese for the kids to enjoy.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Water, Rocks & Mud

 

Episode 302

Curious George Meets the Press

George and the Man with the Yellow hat are lending a hand picking apples at Renkins' Farm, George takes an apple coveted by Jumpy Squirrel, who snatches it back and hides in the barn. George follows, and when he reaches for the light switch, accidentally turns on the giant cider press! All of the apples they've collected are being washed, chopped, and squished into liquid! Not wanting the Renkins to be mad with the sticky mess, George fills everything he can get his hands on with the apple juice squirting out of the machine. When the Man with the Yellow Hat and Renkins' arrive, they're astonished to see the entire harvest bottled up! Much to George's relief, the Renkins aren't upset — they're thrilled. And Jumpy, much to his relief, finds his perfect apple.

Educational Objective (Engineering):To introduce the concept that some systems are found in nature while others are made by humans.

Live Action Segment In order to make some sandwiches for a party, the kids create their own assembly line. When the order of the steps is challenged, they see how it comically affects the final product.

Snow Use

It's the hottest day of the year, and to cool down, George wants to build a snowman! But how can he build a snowman when there's no snow? George experiments with crushed ice cubes, but they melt too quickly. Mud... but it doesn't stay in the right shape. And rocks, which are too heavy to lift! George is stumped. What sticks together, doesn't melt, and wasn't heavy? Of course, sand! George convinces the Man with the Yellow Hat to drive him, Bill, and the Renkins to the beach, where they can all cool off and George can finally build his summer snowman.

Educational Objectives (Science): To explore the results of mixing different natural materials with water.

Live Action Segment The kids experiment with mixing water and dirt to create different consistencies of mud. They then use their mud in different capacities; to make a sculpture, to paint with, and to make a rock/mud wall.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Sand & Soil

 

Episode 303

For the Birds

George loves feeding the birds, but they must be starving, because all the seeds keep disappearing! Perplexed, George returns with more food, only to find a big, bushy tail sticking out of the feeder. It's Jumpy Squirrel, caught in the act of eating all the seeds! George tries to squirrel-proof the birdhouse, moving it further from the tree trunk, clearing away freestanding objects, and even developing a pulley laundry line system to hang it from. But to no avail - that squirrel can climb - and apparently eat - anything! Why does Jumpy keep taking the seeds? Has his appetite suddenly grown — or maybe they're not all for him?

Educational Objective (Engineering):To illustrate that all products and systems are subject to failure; and that many can be fixed through troubleshooting.

Live Action Segment The kids build birdfeeders using recycled materials. A parent will provide basic ideas and instructions, but the kids come up with their own designs and build two different types of houses. One feeder gets a redesign in order to keep out the squirrels.

Curious George-Asaurus

Professor Wiseman needs the Man with the Yellow Hat's help to assemble some rare dinosaur bones into a skeleton in time for an important archaeologist, Dr. Raj Desai, to see them. Wiseman and the Man finish the task and meet Dr. Desai for lunch. Meanwhile, George and Gnocchi play outside with a toy plane, which floats though a window--landing on the newly assembled dinosaur. When George climbs the fragile bones to retrieve it, the entire skeleton collapses! Using another dinosaur as a model, George is able to organize, sort, and piece together the bones back into its proper form. But how will Dr. Desai feel about a monkey working on his precious dinosaur bones, especially when the wrong head ends up on the dinosaur's skeleton?

Educational Objectives (Math): To sort and classify bones based on their shape and size. To develop an understanding of symmetry by reassembling the dinosaur bones so that each bone on one side of the body matches the equivalent bone on the other side (e.g., size, shape, location).

Live Action Segment A museum educator at the Harvard Museum of Natural History shows the kids a skeleton of the human body as they observe the size, shape and symmetry. Later, they piece together bones to reassemble a sheep skeleton.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Water, Rocks & Mud

 

Episode 304

Mulch Ado About Nothing

The secret to Bill's amazing garden is the compost he uses to feed his plants. George decides to make compost for his hungry plants...so George empties the entire contents of his fridge in the backyard. The next morning, George realizes that instead of making plant food, he's made a stinky mess! The Renkins teach George that proper compost consists of dirt, water, and air with only certain foods (no meat or dairy). Back at the apartment in the city, George sees that all the plants need food. George prepares a hearty "meal" ...using every container that he can find. When the Man with the Yellow Hat wakes up to an unusual smell, he follows his nose to the compost! To the neighbors' delight, George made enough for all the plants in the building.

Educational Objective (Science):To learn what compost is, how it can be made, and how it may be used to fertilize plants.

Live Action Segment A kid whose family makes their own compost teaches his friends what it is and how to make their own compost pile.

What Goes Up

It's "Reuse Your Junk Day" and George and the Man with the Yellow Hat have one last pickup before they go to the lake. But when they arrive at Renkins' Farm, they find a mountain of junk piled in the Renkins' living room. There's no way they'll finish the job before the suns goes down, which means no lake for George. While the Man is taking a load to the collection center, George discovers that he can use the ironing board as a lever to launch the junk out of the living room and onto the front yard. Soon, all the pigs, chickens, and squirrels are ducking for cover! George's ingenious invention got all the junk outside, but it's scattered everywhere! Did this little monkey cause more work for himself?

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To develop an understanding of how things work. To develop an understanding of how levers work.

Live Action Segment An older child has a challenge for some younger kids. Try to launch a tennis ball to accurately hit a target area. They use thin wooden panels of different lengths for springboards, and PVC pipe pieces as fulcrums. The kids try different combinations of springboard and fulcrum arrangements. Variations in board length, fulcrum position, and strike velocity are explored as the kids try to score high points for successful launches.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Recycled Sailboat

 

Episode 305

The Amazing Maze Race

George is an expert at navigating the maze on the placemat at the Y-Go-By Diner, but his skills are put to the ultimate test when the Man with the Yellow Hat takes him to the Annual Amazing Maze Race at Renkins Farm. The Man and George follow their map precisely, but how can they compete with the Quint's computerized navigation device, Bill's system of leaving a trail of corn, and Sprint's speedy disposition? It's not until George gets a bird's eye view of the maze that he is able to line up the landmarks on the map and figure out where to go. But when Leslie the cow eats their map, they need to figure out a more creative way to get to the finish line!

Educational Objective (Math):To use simple 2-d maps to locate landmarks and to navigate through territory using the map. To recognize that a map needs to be rotated to the same orientation as the maze itself in order to figure out which path to choose.

Live Action Segment The kids construct their own maze at a school gymnasium. A blindfolded kid attempts to navigate through the maze by following verbal instructions from another kid. The "navigator" uses the vocabulary of direction (left, right, number of paces) and learns about orientation in order to give clear instructions.

The Color of Monkey

After a bubble bath, George promises the Man with the Yellow Hat that he will stay clean until their picture is taken for the cover of Bird Watchers Magazine. But when George helps Steve and Betsy dye eggs, he falls into a pot of food coloring, and turns completely yellow! Trying to keep his pledge of staying clean, he experiments with the different dye colors to see which ones he can mix with yellow to turn him brown again. In the process, George turns himself orange, Charkie turns blue, and Compass turns red! Can George figure out how to get back to his original color, or will the bird watchers return to find a rainbow colored monkey?

Educational Objectives (Science): To be introduced to the concept of camouflage and how it operates.

Live Action Segment Each child picks an outdoor environment with a goal of blending in to their chosen surroundings. They use mix different paints together to match the color of their area and then test their camo outfits in the real world.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Water Drops

 

Episode 306

The Man with the Monkey Hands

After warning George about the poison ivy lurking in the park, the Man with the Yellow Hat loses his balance and lands hands first in a brush of the itchy, poisonous leaves! With his hands bandaged, he'll need help with everyday tasks such as brushing his teeth, making dinner, even typing a letter. So being a clever little monkey, George invents some ingenious ways to make the Man's life seem normal — like wearing swim fins to assist in picking apples off the floor and taping salad forks to his arms to act as temporary hands. But George's creations are put to the ultimate test when the Man has to present Professor Wiseman's newest invention to the science board, salad forks and all!

Educational Objective (Engineering):To learn that tools are simple objects that help humans complete tasks.

Live Action Segment The kids work in groups to create their town helpful devices that extend or supplement human capabilities.

Whistlepig Wednesday

"Whistlepig Wednesday," Mr. Glass' unique version of Groundhog Day, is an annual city tradition of predicting when winter will start. Every year on the last Wednesday of August, Sherry the Whistlepig emerges from her burrow. If she sees her shadow, it means cold weather is coming. But what makes Sherry's shadow so special? To find out, George and his animal friends camp out at Sherry's burrow, but fall asleep while waiting for her to wake up. At the shadow ceremony, Mr. Glass mistakes a sleeping George and each one of his friends for a whistlepig and presents them for the world to see. But does a monkey, dog, cat, or pigeon shadow count?

Educational Objectives (Science): To notice specific characteristics of shadows in relation to the objects that make them.

Live Action Segment The kids are out on the playground on a sunny day tracing their own shadows (as well as stationary object's shadows) with sidewalk chalk. When they return to the playground from a snack break, they notice that the shadows have changed positions from when they traced them. They retrace their shadows and see that the shadows changed size and shape as the sun moved across the sky.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Pinwheels

 

Episode 307

George Digs Worms

Why is Bill yelling at a mound of dirt? He's worm racing! George turns to a pile of decomposed leaves to find his own prize worm and challenges Bill's "Fast Freddy" to a race. Pretty soon, the entire countryside catches worm-racing fever and watch as George's worm, named "Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh," races its way to the championship. But when Mr. Quint takes the wrong lunchbox on his fishing trip, George's worm farm is in danger of becoming fish bait! Can George save his slimy friends in time for the championship race?

Educational Objective (Science):To learn some characteristics and habits of earth worms and to make a connection between an animal and its habitat.

Live Action Segment A worm farm is being added to a classroom, so the kids experiment with soil to see what kind the worms like best. They release worms into distinct piles of different soils in a large, shallow tray to see which soil type the worms seem to like best.

Everything Old Is New Again

The city is awarding the "Golden Arrows Award" to the building that collects the most recycling. George is eager to help—once he learns what recycling actually is, of course. The building's Doorwoman next door turns out to be tough competition, so George hunts down recycling materials from everywhere he can think of. The only problem is, he doesn't know that he only recycle products after they've been used! Will the tenants with the missing recyclables forgive a monkey who's not just trying to win a contest, but also save the environment?

Educational Objectives (Science): To be introduced to the idea that everyone can help with recycling.

Live Action Segment A classroom of kids explain how their school recycling program works and the benefits of reducing and reusing products.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Sand & Soil

 

Episode 308

Wheels on the Bus

Running late for an important meeting at the Glass Palace, George and the Man with the Yellow Hat decide to take the bus rather than walk. But when George and the Man get off at the wrong stop, the bus leaves with the Man’s portfolio still inside! Determined to retrieve the important drawings AND make it to the meeting on time, George jumps in a basket on a bicycle. The Man orders a baffled taxi driver to follow that monkey on the bicycle to catch the bus to get his portfolio! With the clock ticking, will either of them catch up to the bus and arrive at the meeting in time?

Educational Objective (Math):To show how maps give us a schematic picture of where we are and how geometry can be applied to plot a shorter distance between the points of a triangle.

Live Action Segment Two teams of two kids prepare a map of a local area and compete in a neighborhood mapping challenge. Accompanied by parents, the kids choose two different routes to get to their destination. They predict which route is fastest, but then one group takes a secret shortcut.

Seed Trouble

Just putting his toys away in an organized manner is a challenge for George - so he faces an incredible test when he represents the City Grocer in the local "Bag Olympics" for bagging groceries! Toys are one thing, but fitting canned ham, eggs and paper towels neatly into the same bag may prove too tall an order - especially with the overly confident Rodney from Large Mart packing in the next corner. But then again, if George can practice at home by fitting together the shapes of his stuffed camel and muscle man together, what's a little salami and cheese?

Educational Objectives (Math): To sort objects (seeds) based on two categories simultaneously, first by color, and then, within each color group, by size (large and small seeds). To use one-to-one correspondence to point and count to six, first for the number of seed piles, and then point and count to six for the number of seed packages.

Live Action Segment The kids gather objects from a rocky beach and sort them either by size, shape or color. They utilize their finds by creating small works of art based on their sorting process.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Going Green

 

Episode 309

The Fun-Ball Tally

Dulson's Toy Store is having a contest! The person who comes closest to guessing how many Super Mega Fun-Balls are in the rocket shaped dispenser wins the entire container of balls -- and the rocket, too! Steve, Betsy, and George come up with their own unique estimating methods. When soccer balls, grapes, and marbles fail George's Fun-Ball Size Relation Test, George realizes that the perfect size specimens are in the Man with the Yellow Hat's golf ball bucket! Will George and Betsy find the right answer, or will super confident Steve's formula triumph?

Educational Objective (Math):To understand the process of measuring and comparing, using standard or nonstandard units of measure.

Live Action Segment A teacher has a container filled with small cubes and breaks the kids into groups to complete an estimation task. Each group will use different techniques to estimate how many cubes are in their containers. Using different sized objects, the kids use their measurement skills to compare the objects to the colored balls to form a prediction of how many will fit in the jug.

Red Sky at Night, Monkey's Delight

George is tired of his fun always being ruined by the weather! Inspired by the Man with the Yellow Hat's painting of a beautiful sunset, George starts a weather journal by drawing pictures of the sky. But predicting the weather isn't as easy as it seems. When George's picnic is ruined by rain, and he stays indoors on a beautiful sunny day, he decides to study wind patterns, too. When the city's weather station loses its satellite, Professors Einstein and Pizza turn to George's drawings, homemade windsock, and cricket temperature readings to predict the day's weather for the Mayor's golf outing. Who knew a monkey could predict the weather?

Educational Objectives (Science): To learn that upcoming immediate weather can be predicted by observing natural signs including wind speed and direction, presence or absence of clouds, and appearance of clouds.

Live Action Segment The kids visit a weather station where they see meteorological equipment in action and learn how the weather is predicted. They're also taught how observing weather conditions at home can help forecast weather.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Pinwheels

 

Episode 310

Shipwrecked with Hundley

George and the Man with the Yellow Hat join Hundley and the Doorman for a ride on their neat and orderly sailboat -- much to Hundley's dismay. A cracked boom forces them to land on a remote island to make repairs. But when George thoughtfully returns the anchor to the boat, he and Hundley drift into the open sea! Working as a team, they're able to navigate the sailboat back to land, but the Man and the Doorman are nowhere to be found. Are George and Hundley stuck on this island forever, or are those familiar looking rocks, trees, and birds the key to finding their friends?

Educational Objective (Engineering):To learn that different environments are associated with specific types of terrain, natural materials, and living things.

Live Action Segment The kids are on a field trip to a local pond to observe plant and animal life there. They talk about why their environment is suited to the creatures and plans they find in the pond habitat.

Chasing Rainbows

It's Steve and Betsy's first time in the country and who better to give them a guided tour of the forest than George? When a light rain casts a stunning rainbow in the sky, George decides to track down the end of the rainbow to see if there really is a pot of gold. Betsy and Charkie follow, but Steve is left behind while trying to take pictures of the wildlife. Thankfully, Bill rescues Steve from a moose encounter, and they enlist the Man with the Yellow Hat to help find George and Betsy. Can the Man's "pot of gold" lead the travelers back to the treasure of a safe home?

Educational Objectives (Science): To learn that rainbows can be created using human-made materials including a light source and a glass of water.

Live Action Segment The kids see how crystals create a rainbow effect from sunlight. This inspires them to experiment with prisms, lenses, and a glass of water that create rainbow effects that have the colors in the same order.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Recycled Sailboat

 

 

Episode 311

Gnocchi the Critic

After days of Gnocchi choosing to eat cat food over Chef Pisghetti's famous creations, the Chef decides to stop cooking and close the restaurant! Not wanting to lose his favorite ravioli, George follows Gnocchi to find out why she stopped liking the Chef's food, but all she does is take naps, roll in the dirt and sneeze an awful lot. Her sneeze sounds an awful lot like the Man with the Yellow Hat when his flower allergy flares up. Can George diagnose Gnocchi in time to save Chef P's restaurant?

Educational Objective (Science): To learn that animals have certain patterns of normal behavior that can be observed and interpreted. To learn something about allergies, their causes and symptoms.

Live Action Segment The kids visit the zoo where the zoo staff shows them how to record observations of animals in order to have a baseline of normal behavior. They learn that observing abnormal behavior might be a clue that the animal is sick.

George Cleans Up

Armed with a cool new monkey-sized vacuum, George watches with amazement as his new "toy" sucks up everything in sight... including some of Mr. Stamp's rare stamps! Inspired by a TV superhero, George dons a cape and embarks on a citywide "cleaning" spree, using his little vacuum to suck up everything from bird food to dog biscuits to a winning lottery ticket. When the townspeople can't catch up to the cleaning monkey, will they view George as a Superhero Vacuum Monkey or a Super Villain?

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To learn that the use of tools and machines can be helpful.

Live Action Segment The kids are having a snack when they discover their own vacuum power, achieved through drinking straws. That gives them the idea to use their vacuum cleaner. Thanks to the inventive use of a clear tube, the kids witness how the vacuum cleaner uses suction, and ways to control the amount of suction.

 

Episode 312

Relax!

George and the Man with the Yellow Hat convince Professor Wiseman to take a well-deserved break from work. But a stuck pickle jar, a tangled hammock, and a duck floating away with the Man's beloved hat turn their relaxing picnic in the park into one stressful afternoon. Still, could a day of creative problem solving be exactly what the monkey ordered for Professor Wiseman?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To understand that tools are simple objects that help humans complete tasks. To be introduced to the idea of relaxation and its role as an important element of a healthy lifestyle.

Live Action Segment The kids race on an obstacle course with challenge stations to illustrate the repurposing of tools. Each station presents a problem to solve given numerous materials. Each tool can be used to complete the task, but which one completes the task the fastest?

The Box and the Hound

Charkie will do anything to get what's inside of Aunt Margaret's parcel, but George promised he'd keep it safe! After twisting, turning, flipping, and rotating the box, George is able to get it out of sight, but Charkie's keen sense of smell makes it impossible to stay hidden for long. Can George figure out how to distract Charkie's super sense long enough to get the box back to Aunt Margaret's house unharmed, or are his dog-sitting days numbered?

Educational Objectives (Math): To estimate the size and shape of an object in order to fit it inside a space of a certain size and shape, and to recognize that a rectangular object can be turned around so that its length can fit into a long, narrow space. To compare, sort, and stack rectangular objects by length, width and height.

Live Action Segment The kids are sending school supplies to kids in Mozambique. Their challenge is to fit stuff in boxes as tightly as possible to save shipping costs. They learn ways to maximize space by thinking about how to best combine differently shaped items.

 

Episode 313

Night of the Weiner Dog!

Poor Hundley! It's the first time he's been apart from the Doorman in over 3 years and George's room isn't exactly this dapper daschund's idea of "neat and orderly." Being a good host, George follows the Doorman's detailed instructions. George accurately measures Hundley's food, graciously lets him watch his favorite TV show, "Poodle Groomers," and even rearranges his living room to make Hundley feel more at home. Though Hundley's strict demands are not George's idea of a fun sleepover, George comes through for his friend by rescuing Hundley's squeaky mouse from the balcony. Now, at last, Hundley can fall asleep! Later that night, when George is having a nightmare, how can Hundley return the favor and help his friend?

Educational Objective (Math): To sort and classify objects based on their shape and function, e.g., bones with bones, toys with toys, etc. To use a measuring cup and fill the amount of liquid or solid to the exact level marked off as 1 cup.

Live Action Segment The kids sort and organize the materials in the classroom for maximum ease of use. Keeping in mind the categories of materials and the proper way to put things away, they discuss the best way to organize their math, science, and general school supplies.

Animal Trackers

It’s Nature Week and George is taking pictures of wild animals and their tracks for the big exhibit. Bullfrogs, squirrels, raccoons and hawks are all nice, but George wants a picture of something really exciting and unusual. While George searches for the fawn Bill spotted, he finds an unusual set of tracks that look like a cross between a gigantic duck and a colossal snake. George decides there must be a duckbilled dinosaur on the loose-which would make for a perfect photo for Nature Week! George leaves a trail of fruits and vegetables to lure the dinosaur, but then he remembers that not all dinosaurs are friendly! George frantically rushes to warn everyone, when he bumps into the real culprit behind those tracks - and it’s very different than a dinosaur!

Educational Objectives (Science): To use the skills of inquiry including observing, collecting data, making predictions, generating theories, and checking results.

Live Action Segment The kids play detective as they try to figure out which beach objects left the various tracks in the sand.

 

Episode 314

George Measures Up

Chef Pisghetti is cooking one up for the records book — a strand of spaghetti that measures 30 feet! When the Chef leaves for an important appointment, George protects the noodle from being destroyed by a playful Gnocchi. Later, the Chef calls to ask George how tall the building next door is, but George doesn't have anything long enough to measure with... or does he? Chef Pisghetti returns and sees a monkey measuring a building with the world's longest noodle. Now THAT'S one for the record books!

Educational Objective (Math): To estimate and measure height using standard and nonstandard units of measure. To learn that two different nonstandard units of measure can be added together to reach a total amount if they are converted to a standard unit of measure (for example, feet) and added together.

Live Action Segment Using cardboard cutouts of George and Hundley, the kids predict the size of various objects, then accurately measure the object first with George and then with the much smaller Hundley. They observe the inverse relationship: the shortest measure results in the higher number of units.

Something New Under the Sun

To beat the scorching summer heat, George and the Man with the Yellow Hat visit the museum, which is the only place in town with power, due to its new solar energy panel. George sees how the sun can charge batteries, and the Man agrees to make his famous lasagna as a surprise for Dr. Levit's birthday. But how can the Man make his lasagna without power for his electric oven? Can a monkey's new knowledge of solar power be the key to baking the world's first solar-energy birthday lasagna?

Educational Objectives (Science): To learn about some items that can be powered by the sun rather than electrical or mechanical energy.

Live Action Segment The kids visit artist Gregory Curci to see how he uses solar power to make moving sculptures. Greg helps the kids build their own solar car toy. Then they enjoy a little snack Greg has prepared by using his home made solar cooker.

 

Episode 315

Movie House Monkey

If George and the Man with the Yellow Hat can show Mr. Glass a truly unique movie theatre experience, he promises to save the old bijou from being demolished. So, with the Doorman and Hundley's help, they restore the theater to its original pristine beauty, and all goes well until the music gets jumbled, the film breaks, and a popcorn explosion accompanies a volcanic eruption on screen! Surely Mr. Glass can't say this wasn't unique!

Educational Objective (Engineering): To discover how things work and that people plan to get things done.

Live Action Segment Using short stories they've written, the kids use an overhead projector with moving scrolls and layers of transparent drawings to create a dynamic projected show with the illusion of movement (like a film). The kids use opaque items and their own drawings to experience the effects of projected light and color transparency.

Cooking with Monkey

Professor Wiseman's creative approach to cooking leads to an unsuccessful extra-sticky cake... which doesn't bode well for the school's bake sale. George needs to find out what's wrong with Wiseman's cooking, fast! After an unproductive day full of shopping and cooking, Wiseman visits Chef Pisghetti and is stunned to see him cooking from a recipe. The Chef explains that a recipe is just like a scientific formula. Eureka! The rest is a piece of cake.

Educational Objectives (Math): To follow a recipe, measuring exact amounts using the size of measuring spoons and cups specified. To plan and sequence the order of steps in a recipe, assigning numbers to the different steps: first we must do... second we must do... and third we are supposed to do...

Live Action Segment The kids visit a local bakery, where the baker gives them a challenge: to make a huge, hard zucchini into zucchini muffins. The baker will cook the muffins their way and her way, but won't reveal which is the correctly prepared muffin until they've tasted their results.

Episode 401

Curious George, Personal Trainer

Professor Wiseman is too busy to keep an exercise routine. So when she signs up to run in a fund-raising footrace, she enlists George as her personal trainer to help whip her into shape. George quickly learns there is more to exercising than meets the eye, and teaches Professor Wiseman that the keys to running are stretching, keeping hydrated, staying motivated and pacing yourself.

Educational Objective (Science):To learn about jogging as a healthy, fun way to exercise and to learn some health tips associated with jogging and exercising safely. To be introduced to the idea of building muscle strength and stamina through regular exercise.

Live Action Segment The kids create an exercise obstacle course that includes bouncing a ball, using a stepladder, and running through cones. Their unique workout routine makes exercising a fun game as well as a beneficial and healthy activity. The kids also talk about daily activities that are good exercise: climbing stairs, walking, playing sports, and more.

Sprout Outing

George has just been made an Honorary Junior Sprout of Country County and is thrilled to be on his first trip with the troop. But when the troop gets lost in the woods, George not only finds himself separated from the group but he also discovers a man sawing branches off a tree — a clear violation of Sprout rules! Can George prevent the man from harming more trees and earn his Sprout stripes along the way?

Educational Objectives (Science): To explore the variety of edible fruits and nuts that grow on trees and bushes. To be introduced to pruning as an aspect of tree and shrub maintenance that supports health and fruit production.

Live Action Segment The kids visit the Arnold Arboretum where a guide teaches them how to identify trees based on the tree's size, shape, bark, and leaves. The kids learn about different types of trees and some of their special characteristics. Who would have ever guessed that a tree root could smell like root beer, candy, or salsa?

 

Episode 402

Juicy George

After one sip, George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are so hooked on Juicy Jay's special blended juice that they buy their own juicer to recreate the drink at home. But operating a juicer is not as easy as it seems, and certainly not a mess-free process! With some fun-filled experimentation, George discovers the secret ingredient and creates a juice that even impresses Juicy Jay!

Educational Objective (Science): To learn about healthy snacking, specifically fruit and vegetable drinks. To introduce experimentation as a fun way to create new flavors.

Live Action Segment With a little help from a juice-savvy parent, the kids use a blender and a juicer to create their own kid-approved smoothie recipes. The kids experiment with ingredients and measurements to come up with nutritious and tasty drinks. Leaving no item unjuiced, the brave kids even taste test unconventional things like juiced spinach!

The Big Picture

George's favorite bird is on the endangered species list! The Man with the Yellow Hat's new book would help spread the bird word, but the bookstore doesn't think people are interested in a 1,400-page novel about a bird. George and Steve devise an attention-grabbing plan that involves an empty billboard and a razzle-dazzle picture to help promote the book, but can a monkey, a whole lot of paint, and a blank canvas save the Cerulean Warbler?

Educational Objectives (Math): To recognize that a picture can be subdivided into equal smaller units. To map and reproduce (represent) the equal units of a small picture proportionately onto a large picture. To label and sequence the equal units by numbering them in order from left to right, top to bottom.

Live Action Segment A classroom of kids is given the task of creating a wall map of South America. The teacher uses a grid to divide the map into small sections, and assigns each section to different student. Each student then draws his or her portion of South America on a larger sheet of paper. When each student is finished, the teacher assembles the huge map on the wall, and even though the students used different colors and objects to create their parts of the map, the entire shape of South America emerges.

 

Episode 403

Girl Meets Monkey

George has lots of friends in the country, but none like Allie, the five-year-old granddaughter of the Renkins who talks just about as fast as she runs. George spends the entire day showing Allie what it's like to be a monkey, with the day ending with a lesson in tree climbing. When they climb so high up the tree that Allie gets stuck, can George bring out her inner monkey and swing into safety?

Educational Objective (Engineering): To identify problem solving as a process which includes brainstorming, decision making, testing, and evaluating.

Live Action Segment A few kids on a second-story porch decide to surprise their friends below by lowering a marker on a string down to their unsuspecting friends. But when they want to send heavier objects down to their friends, they decide to make their very own elevator. Experimenting with various types of string, twine, rope, and a pulley, the kids create a basket elevator that successfully delivers grapes and a basketball to their grateful friends below.

Hundley's Great Escape

George and Hundley chase Gnocchi into Pisghetti's basement, only to have the door lock behind them. George and Gnocchi quickly climb up a shelf and out the window, but Hundley isn't as nimble and is left behind in the cold, dark basement. Can George figure out a way to build a ramp leading to the window that even the littlest Dachshund legs can climb?

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To explore how simple machines make work easier.

Live Action Segment Four kids are given the option of using the stairs or the ramp to get up a bridge. The kids split up to try both. One group experiences how the ramp reduces the angle of the climb at the expense of distance. The other group learns that the stairs are faster, but harder to climb. They also use objects like a ball and a bicycle to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of both a ramp and stairs.

Related Parent-Child Activity: Ramp-N-Roll

 

Episode 404

The Inside Story

George doesn't feel so well. There's a germ lingering inside his body that has him sneezing and coughing, while making very sleepy. In a cold-induced dream, George and Gnocchi travel inside George's body, chasing a blues-singing germ named Toots and his harmonizing Germettes through the monkey's nose, stomach, and lungs as George tries to rid his body of the germ.

Educational Objective (Science): To be introduced to germs as a cause of illness. To learn some basic information about the major systems of the human body including what they contribute to health and how they are connected to one another.

Live Action Segment The kids visit a radiologist to learn about what their own bodies look like from the inside. The radiologist shows them some x-rays, explains the process of an MRI, and performs an ultrasound on one of their hearts to see the beating motion in action.

Little Fish, Littler Pond

A dry spell has lowered the water level of Lake Wanasink Lake, which leaves one of George and Allie's fish friends trapped in a small pond away from its family! George digs a canal with a lock between the lake and the little pond, but he can't get his fish friend to use it. Can a monkey and girl find another way to get the fish back to its family?

Educational Objectives (Engineering): To understand how things and (canals) systems work through observation and investigation.

Live Action Segment A group of kids make their own waterways in their backyard. When they encounter a split in the canal system, the kids get their ping pong ball boats to float in the right direction by blocking the incorrect path with a brick.

 

Episode 405

Guest Monkey

George is almost as excited as Allie on her first day of school, but is ecstatic when she invites him to school the next day as a special guest monkey! He soon learns, though, that kindergarten has a lot of special rules that he's not used to — like not climbing on the furniture or standing in the sand table. Will George get extra credit for trying to follow the rules, or will his effort create one big mess?

Educational Objective (Social Science): To understand that different settings have unique expectations for individual and group behavior. To be introduced to the idea that individuals in groups have rights and responsibilities to the group that must be agreed upon, recognized, and integrated in order for the group to function. To understand that individuality and creative self-expression are valued.

Live Action Segment A preschooler name Keira visits a kindergarten classroom for the first time to see what big kid school is all about. During her tour, Keira learns all about the differences between preschool and kindergarten. She explores the writing center, math center, and art table, and advises other preschoolers not to worry about going to kindergarten because it's fun.

Charkie Goes to School

Charkie's building has a new rule — all dogs must have a good-behavior diploma from obedience school. After seeing Charkie struggle with the obstacle course, George recruits the academy's top alumni, Hundley, to help prepare Charkie for the final exam. Can George and Hundley figure out a way to get Charkie to cross the finish line amid all the distractions?

Educational Objectives (Math): To draw basic shapes like a circle, square, triangle and rectangle. To identify the attributes of shapes (for example, a triangle has 3 straight sides). To use a drawing containing symbols to represent and remember the shapes of the objects. To build 3-dimensional objects representing different shapes.

Live Action Segment A teacher wants to rearrange her classroom, and asks her students for help developing a plan. Using a grid to represent the available space in the room, the kids cut out shapes to represent the pieces of movable furniture in the room. Once the class votes on their favorite arrangement, they will use the winning plan as a guide to execute the room rearrangement.

Related Parent-Child Activity: What's That Shape

 

 

 

Episode 501

George and Marco Sound It Out

Nothing can stop George from listening to his favorite band, Lobos de Plata, a Latin band that plays in Endless Park. So when the bandstand is taken down, George goes on a mission with his friend and band-member, 8 year-old Marco, to find a perfect place for the band to play. After a day of checking the acoustics at Pisghetti's, the zoo, and George’s lobby, their last hope is the museum. Will it have a room that is quiet, won’t produce echoes, and is large enough for an entire band?

A Monkey’s Duckling

George is so anxious for Dumpling Duck's eggs to hatch that he takes over as chief egg-sitter when Dumpling takes a break. When the first duckling emerges and sees George, he thinks the monkey is his mama! As George shows his doting protégé the differences between a monkey and a duck, can he convince the duckling that birds of a feather should flock together?

 

Episode 502

Downhill Racer

When George hears about the annual soapbox derby, he enlists Allie to help him make the coolest car a monkey could drive. But even with the help of Bill’s instruction manual, building a car takes a lot of work and car parts sure are hard to find. Will their car made out of wagon wheels, a kayak, and brakes from a buggy race past the finish line or are they on a crash course?

Book Monkey

George loves books and helping others, so volunteering to help the librarian is a no-brainer! But when she is called away, George may have volunteered for a bigger job than he expected. He does his best to reshelf books, but when people can’t find what they’re looking for, he starts over from scratch. After he sorts by the color, then size, then subject, how will the exhausted little monkey react when the librarian tells him that books are also sorted alphabetically?

 

Episode 503

George's Super Subway Adventure

The Man with the Yellow Hat has two surprises for George today: They're going to the zoo and they’re riding the subway! George is so excited to see his first underground train that he hops right on, leaving the Man behind at the subway terminal. After comical mishaps where the two barely miss meeting up and some fun stops along the way, George figures out how to take the train all the way to the zoo, where he patiently waits for his friend to catch up.

Well Done, George

A certain muddy monkey needs a bath, but there’s no water coming out of the faucet. George and the Man with the Yellow Hat find a broken water pump in their well and head back to the city so George can take that much needed bath. This time when the water stops flowing from the faucet, George takes matters into his own paws and uses his newly acquired knowledge to build a well in their front yard. But can he build a pump to get the water from the ground into his fifth floor bathtub?

 

Episode 504

Trader George

George has a new hobby – collecting interestingly shaped sticks with his squeaky, rolling cart. When he encounters Allie selling fresh apple cider, he trades his cart for a gallon, but later regrets his decision. He offers to trade a jar of sauerkraut to Allie in return for the cart, but Allie already traded it to Vicki. Can George find the perfect trade for Vicki or is his cart gone forever?

One in a Million Chameleon

George could stay busy for hours watching Jade the chameleon--not only does she change colors, but she also has the world's fastest tongue. But when Jade escapes after George accidentally leaves her cage door open, he follows her trail right out the front door! George enlists Hundley’s help, but will they be able to find a color-changing chameleon in the big city?

 

Episode 505

Monkey Size Me

It's hard being a little monkey in a big world. George tries to throw the Man with the Yellow Hat the perfect surprise party, but he orders a cake too big to fit in the freezer and he’s too short to hang the decorations from the ceiling. George fantasizes about a life where everything is monkey-sized…where he could drive a monkey-sized car, order a monkey-sized cake, and even wear a monkey-sized yellow hat! But how would a monkey-sized party effect his regular sized guests?

Metal Detective

There's no better way to spend a sunny afternoon than playing with your favorite robot on the beach. But when a sudden rainstorm has George and the Man with the Yellow Hat running for shelter, George is upset to learn that he left his robot resting in the sand. With Professor Wiseman’s help, George makes a homemade metal detector to help him find his buried metal friend. Can a monkey rescue a robot using an alarm clock, tape, and a calculator?

 

Episode 506

George's Home Run

While Marco tries to hit his first Little League home run, George gets to play scorekeeper. Unfortunately, he can't remember the order of the numbers, so he isn't getting it quite right. Marco helps out by using a catchy song to teach George how to count from 1-10 and then George returns the favor by agreeing to be a pinch runner for an injured Marco. Can a speedy little monkey run the bases fast enough for Marco to get his first home run?

Monkey on Ice

Bill wants to earn another Junior Sprout badge by constructing and sleeping in an igloo, inspiring George to build his own. Only George wants his igloo to have windows and be big enough to fit his friends and furniture - not small and cozy like Bill's. When George's huge ice house leaves him freezing cold, he decides to build one in a much warmer location - inside the country house.

 

Episode 507

George-O-Matic

George is entranced by the museum's newest addition: a vending machine full of levers, wheels, springs, and healthy snacks! So when George is put in charge of making the dessert for an important dinner party, he can think of nothing better than creating his own dessert dispensing vending machine – the George-O-Matic. One tiny design flaw: George asks Gnocci the cat to motor the machine, causing it to go into overdrive.

Curious George, Sheep Herder

George buys a cool new scarf at the Country Fair, but with one tug on a loose strand of wool, the entire scarf unravels! While searching for sheep that will give him some wool for another scarf, George accidentally whistles, which sends Bo the sheepdog and his flock of sheep on a wild adventure through the country. Can George whistle his way out of this mess or will his baaaaaad day turn even worse?

 

Episode 508

Go West, Young Monkey

The Doorman gets a special delivery – a Western Town to add to his amazing train set. He lets George, Steve, and Betsy assemble it, but they lose the final railroad pin that holds it all together! After helping them search, an exhausted Hundley dozes off and dreams that he’s the deputy of an old West town where a stranger (George) loses the ceremonial pin that links the new railroad tracks. Can Deputy Hundley find the pin and save the day?

Meet the New Neighbors

George ventures into the new neighborhood Vietnamese grocery store to buy carrots, cucumbers, and apples. He has a hard time finding the items on his list, so George buys the closest fruits and vegetables he can find: phat thu, mang cau ta, and kho qua. But the ingredients don’t work in the Man with the Yellow Hat’s recipes. Not wanting to take any more chances, George revisits the store, only this time he brings takeout and the store owners back with him!

 

Episode 509

Follow That Boat

Steve needs an A to pass his history class and his model papyrus boat is sure to make the grade. George helps him test the boat in Endless Park’s pond, but a sudden rainstorm sweeps it down the sewer grate! While searching for the boat, Steve and George learn that debris from the street ends up in the ocean. Will they ever find Steve’s little boat in the big ocean or will he be taking history again next year?

Windmill Monkey

George proudly finishes planting his rooftop garden when he turns around to find that Compass and his friends have eaten all the seeds. The scarecrow overlooking the garden didn’t scare them at all! While buying more seeds, George spots a windmill and learns how the wind can power just about anything. The inspired monkey sets out to create the world’s first wind powered scarecrow in hopes that will keep his seeds safe. But some things are more easily planned than done!

 

Episode 510

Mother's Day Surprise

It’s Mother's Day and Marco wants to surprise his mami with a party! George is excited to help Marco make a piñata and other festive decorations while Cecilia and the Man with the Yellow Hat prepare some of Maritza's favorite food. But when they see her arriving early, will the crew be able to pull it together in time to make this one mother’s day she'll never forget?

Jungle Gym

George, Allie, and Bill really flip for flips when they join a gymnastics class and then flip-out when they realize the class is only once a week! But George has an idea—build their own backyard gym so they can practice every day. Will an inventive monkey, a determined little girl, and a can-do boy be able to carry it off and impress their teacher at the next class?