(techno groovy upbeat music) - Hello, everyone, and welcome to "Teaching in Room 9", the region's... - So come on in, take a seat, and let's get started.

- Good job.

Now, go ahead and touch your throat right here and see how they feel.

- Hello, boys and girls, welcome to "Teaching in Room 9."

- Falcons are built for speed, so she doesn't have very wide wing.

- And the numbers get bigger as we go across to the right.

- I just want you to start with saying, "Hello."

Remember, you got this.

- All right, are you ready to learn?!

Let's go!

(groovy techno upbeat music) Hello, everyone, and welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9", the region's largest classroom.

I am Dr.

Sanders, and we are in our amazing classroom where you can go anywhere and be anything that you choose.

But before we get started on our adventures, let's always remember what I... You got it, you got it.

I might have problems saying that, but you got it.

It doesn't matter if you're 2 or 102, we will have some fun!

F-U-N, fun!

We will have some fun while learning.

Yes, we're ready to get started on our adventures, but, first, let's spell some of my friends' names!

Let's see who I have down first.

Drue!

Hello, Drue, how are you?!

Let's spell Drue.

Capital D-R-U-E, D-R-U-E.

Hi, Drue!

And my next name is Tanner!

Hello, Tanner, how are you?!

Let's spell Tanner.

Capital T-A-N-N-E-R, T-A-N-N-E-R.

And my last name for today is Jeremy!

Hey, Jeremy!

Let's spell Jeremy.

Capital J-E-R-E-M-Y, J-E-R-E-M-Y, Jeremy.

Did I say that right, Jeremy?

Yes, I did.

It sounds like it starts with a G, but what letter does it start with?

Yes, it starts with a J, it starts with a J. That's all my friends for today, but guess what, boys and girls?

It's time to get on this adventure.

Are you ready?!

(gasps) Yes, you are?

So let's go!

- Yay!

(bright fanfare music) - Glen, I see you're having a snack.

(bell ringing) Ooh, it's your favorite, Gator Bites, snails and frogs and crickets and worms.

I myself prefer potato chips, but I'm glad that you have a snack.

So you're ready to dig in, right?

(bright chiming music) So, are you gonna open the bag?

(whimsical music) You could open the bag.

(whimsical music) Do you know how to open the bag?

(intriguing whimsical trombone music) Yeah, those little bags can be tricky.

Would you like me to show you a strategy?

It's called the pinch-pinch-pull strategy.

This can help you open little bags and big bags.

Should we try it together?

Okay, the first thing we have to do with the pinch-pinch-pull strategy is to pinch.

So you ready to learn how to pinch?

Put your thumbs in the air, put your pointer fingers in the air, and kiss your fingers together.

That's a pinch.

Let's try it again.

Pinch.

One more time.

Pinch.

Okay.

Now, to do the pinch-pinch-pull strategy, you're going to pinch one side of the bag, pinch the other side of the bag, and pull the bag apart.

Pinch-pinch-pull.

Let's try it again.

Pinch one side, pinch the other side, and pull it apart.

That's how it works.

Now, Glen, for me to help you, I'm going to have to take your snack for a minute.

Can-can I have it?

Okay, okay, I'll give it back, I'll give it back.

Are you ready to try?

Pinch, pinch, and pull!

Your Gator Bites, they're free!

Here you go.

You can use this strategy to open big bags, little bags.

Do you remember the steps?

Pinch, pinch, and pull, and then you're ready for school.

(bright orchestral music) (liquid burbling) - Hi there, Room 9!

It's me, Mrs.

Williams, the woodland creature teacher.

And today, joining me to help us learn and grow our brains about energy are Georgia and Mickey.

- [Children] Yay!

- Give 'em a hand for joining us.

Today, we're gonna learn about sources of energy.

We're gonna focus on three main sources of energy.

But, what is energy?

Energy is anything that helps to change something or do work.

So the three main sources that we're gonna focus on today are category 1: Sound.

Sound is a type of energy that reaches our ears, and it travels through the air in waves that we don't see with our eyes, but we hear with our ears.

So category 1 is Sound.

Second is Light.

Light is something that is especially helpful for humans to see.

Light surrounds us from different sources.

It travels into our eyes, and makes it easier for us to see things.

Have you ever noticed that at night, it's a little bit harder to see, makes you wanna flip on that light, or pull out your flashlight.

Our third category is Heat.

Take those hands and clap 'em together, and rub, rub, rub!

Do you fell that warm, tingly feeling between your two hands?

The friction that you created by rubbing them together causes heat.

Heat is especially helpful when we're cooking, or when we need to stay warm on those frosty winter days.

So, we are going to play a game.

Georgia and Mickey, are you ready to play a round of Name that energy source?

All right, this is how it's gonna go down.

I'm gonna show them a picture of a source of energy, the person who buzzes in first, will get to categorize the energy.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

(buzzer buzzing) All right, Mickey, you are super speedy.

What is this source of energy?

- Category 1.

- Mickey says category 1.

A person's voice, does it travel to your ears?

It does.

Category 1 is Sound.

Are you ready for your next type of energy?

(buzzer buzzing) Oh, Georgia rang in first this time.

What type of energy is this?

- Category 3.

- Georgia says category 3, the sun provides heat.

It does, it warms the Earth.

Think about your skin and how it feels on those warm summer days.

It also provides light.

So we could categorize it in either of these.

Give her a hand.

- [Children] Yay!

- All right, are we ready for our next type?

- Here we go.

(buzzer buzzing) Oh, that was a super close one.

Georgia, what type of energy do you see here?

- Category 1.

- Is this Category 1?

Oh, take a look at our sweet little woodland creature chirping away in the trees.

(bird chirping) That is a sweet sound that travels to our ears.

It is Sound energy.

Ready for another?

(buzzer buzzing) Oh, you are both speedy, but Mickey was quicker.

- Category 1.

- Category 1.

When we see guitars and radios and all types of sound, it is category 1: Sound energy.

All right, are you ready?

Are you sure?

- Mm-hmm.

- Ready, spaghetti?

- Mm-hmm.

(buzzer buzzing) - All right, Georgia, what type of energy do you see here?

- Category 2.

- Category 2, she says Light energy.

It is Light energy.

This helps to light up those dark nights at the campground, or to help you find something under your bed.

Don't stash things under your bed, your mother wouldn't like that.

All right, next type of energy.

(buzzer buzzing) All right, Mickey, what do you see here?

- Category 3.

- Thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs in the middle?

Do you agree, category 3?

Yes, definitely a fire creates heat.

You could roast a marshmallow or a hot dog.

You might also get a little bit of category 2, Light, from your fire.

Ready for another?

(buzzer buzzing) My, this is a close game.

Georgia, what do you see here?

- Category 2.

- Category 2, this is Light energy.

Light bulbs help to light up the room.

Turn it on, we need to do some homework, or play a game with family and friends.

All right, we have only two to go.

Ready?

(buzzer buzzing) All right, Mickey, what do you see?

- Category 3.

- Category 3: Heat energy.

Take a look at this picture.

This is an oven baking away a tasty treat.

It definitely uses heat energy to cook things for you and your family.

Last one, are you ready?

(buzzer buzzing) All right, it's a candle, what do you see it doing?

- Category 2.

- Category 2.

It's providing light and also a tiny little bit of heat with that flame.

Great job, Georgia.

Give my helpers a hand.

- Yay!

- Thanks for helping us out.

I hope that you had a great time learning and growing your brain with us.

Remember to check around your home and your community for other sources of Sound, Light, and Heat energy.

And we will see you again soon.

Bye!

(bright intriguing orchestral music) (air hissing) (children cheering) (bright playful music) (bright playful music continues) - Good morning, everybody, I'm so glad you're here today at the Saint Louis Zoo.

My name's Barb, I'm gonna show you around a little bit.

We wanna go over a couple little rules first.

Y'all know how to behave when you're in somebody's home, well, we are in these animals' homes today, and we wanna make sure we respect that and keep our hands down to our sides, and do a great job.

(bright playful music) And we're gonna go on to the Insectarium in just a minute.

Up first, we're gonna take a look at this rhinoceros beetle.

All the kids like to get their pictures taken here.

We're gonna go inside the Insectarium now.

(bright playful music) So, guys, this is Renee, and she's gonna tell us all about some of abundant side of the Insectarium.

- Here we have the Mexican redknee tarantula.

- [Barb] Oh, look at that.

- And this is the Mayan insect section.

So one of the things you can do is count the legs.

You can see this has eight legs, so most insects have six.

So this one is not an insect, but it's an invertebrate.

And we care for insects and vertebrates all over the world here.

So come with me, and I'll show you more.

(playful whimsical music) Okay, so now, we're getting into a cool setting, because we're gonna get to go behind the scenes at the Insectarium.

It's one of the biggest Insectariums, like, in the world, and not everybody gets to do this.

So come on with me.

(playful whimsical music) Here we go!

So welcome to the Saint Louis Zoo Insectarium.

Down here in this aisle, we have all our veggie eaters, so roaches and millipedes, crickets.

You might be able to hear the crickets chirping.

But probably one of the coolest things we have, at least I think so, is the largest species of roach probably in the world.

And these are giant South American cockroaches.

(playful whimsical music) They're very, very pretty.

These live in caves, in rainforests, But, yeah, they're pretty friendly.

They can't fly very well, even though they have wings, but they can gracefully fall, it kind of protects them that way.

I'm gonna show you probably everybody's favorite insect over here.

- One of my very favorites.

- Yes, yes.

Right now we have tons of babies, but you can see they like move like leaves, up there in the right.

They're trying to mimic a leaf blowing in the wind and they're very, very light.

- [Caretaker] Right.

- And they can't bite or anything like that.

They're looking like... (chuckles) Thank you.

They're looking like what they eat, which is a leaf.

And that protects them from birds and stuff that may wanna eat them.

Their eggs that they lay also look like the seeds of a plant, and then they will stick those eggs onto leaves.

They have a very sticky property to them that keeps them in place.

So come on over, I'm gonna show you some stuff that we have over here.

I'm probably just gonna put 'em on the floor, that way you can see 'em a little bit better.

But I have a really interesting comparison here.

And I have to have tongs, 'cause one of these is pretty safe, the other is not so safe.

So what I wanna show you is the difference between poison and venom.

So, these are millipedes here, these are the poisonous ones, and then over here is the centipede.

This guy is venomous.

He can pack a really nasty bite.

So I'm just gonna poke him a little, so you can see his head and how fast they move.

- So the millipede here, I always ask people how many legs they have.

And, you know, you could sit here and you could count these legs all day long, and still probably not get the right answer.

But an easy way to do it is to just count these stripes right along his back.

And every one of those stripes has four legs attached to it.

If we look at the centipede here, every one of his stripes has two legs attached to it.

And that's one of the big differences between centipedes and millipedes.

- Well, thank you so much for coming to visit us at the Insectarium.

- Yeah.

- Come in and see us at Saint Louis Zoo anytime, we'll always have the insects for you to come and see.

- Thanks for coming by.

- Bye, good to see you!

(bright playful music) - Hi, friends!

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9."

I'm Mrs.

Miller, your healthy eating educator, but when I'm not in the classroom, I work at a nonprofit that helps make sure people have the healthy foods that they need.

I'm excited today to teach you about the power of healthy eating.

Let's get started.

Let's build a plate.

Building a plate is going to help us make sure that we have all the essential nutrients from different fruit groups to make sure our diets are balanced and giving us all the energy that we need to make it through the day and run around with our friends.

We have on our plate four sections that we're going to fill with quality foods to, again, give us that essential energy.

In section one, I want to fill that section with fruits and vegetables.

I have chosen broccoli, a potato, and some strawberries.

I'm gonna add that to section one.

For our two other sections, section two and three, I'm going to choose a quality protein source and a whole grain roll.

And, finally, I wanna finish off with a low-fat dairy product.

So, today, I've chosen a glass of milk, but this could also look like some low-fat cheese.

We have our four different sections to have a balanced plate and make sure we're getting all of those components, nutritional components, into our diet to give us enough energy so we can run around on the playground, learn from our teachers, and feel good throughout the day.

Thanks so much for joining me today to learn about the power of healthy eating.

I'll see you guys next time.

Bye!

(intriguing bright playful music) - Hi, welcome to the "Teaching in Room 9" Art class.

My name is Ms.

Lane, and are you ready to make something cool?

That's what I thought.

Today, we're gonna use lines to make a drawing for our friend.

Now, you could use the name of a neighbor, your best friend, your pet, your teacher, whoever you like.

Today I'm gonna use the name Alexis.

Now I've already written out her name in bubble letters, and we're gonna fill it in.

So the first line I'm gonna do is a horizontal line.

So in this A, I'm just gonna go across with horizontal lines to fill in this bubble letter.

And what's another line that we know?

How about horizontal?

Oh, we already did that.

Vertical!

That's right.

Vertical lines, up and down.

Awesome.

What else can we do with lines?

How about something wavy?

In this E, I'm just gonna do a big, squiggly wavy line.

That looks cool.

All right, what else can lines do?

(gasps) They can make shapes.

Let's do a star.

Do you know how to make a star?

It's easy, I'll teach you.

All right, we're gonna take a line up and down, across, back across, and then down again.

You ready to do it again?

All right, we're gonna go up, down, across, across again, and then back down.

And you've made a star.

Now let's fill in the rest of this bubble letter with more stars.

Awesome.

Now, lines can also make other shapes, like a circle.

A circle is just a line that turns back around right onto itself.

So let's fill this eye with a bunch of circles.

Really pack it in there, filling in this space.

All right, one letter left.

What should we do?

Hmm... How about a design where the lines intersect or across each other?

I'm gonna do orange.

I'm gonna take lines diagonally across one way.

There we go.

And then we're also gonna go the other way to make a diamond pattern.

And this is how lines intersect to make pattern.

Okay, so here's where we're at so far, looking pretty good, but I think we can do better.

So let's take a color, it could be any.

I'm gonna do more blue, and we're gonna go around the bubble letters that we've made to make a nice design around.

And we're just gonna follow the shapes of these letters and lines.

All right, and we got one more.

Ooh, maybe another.

Looking good.

Okay, and there we have it.

We've made a design out of lines for our best friend.

Thanks for joining me, and I hope to see you next time.

Bye!

♪ Time for music with Bhoo (instrument wailing) - Mrs.

Bhooshan here, and welcome back to the Music Room in Room 9.

Today I have a song all about frogs, and it goes a little something like this.

♪ Frogs in the bucket swimming about ♪ ♪ What can we stir with to make them jump out ♪ And since this song is about frogs, I brought two of my favorite frog friends.

This is Fragile and Beth.

Everybody wave "Hi" and say "Hi, Fragile, hi, Beth."

Well, since this is their favorite song, we're gonna play a little game.

I'm gonna have us pick a body part, either your head, or your hand, or your elbow, or your foot, and we're gonna stir it, and see if we can guess what our frog friends are thinking.

And they'll jump out if we guess the right thing.

So go away.

Here we go.

Can you point to a body part?

Oh, I see somebody pointing to your head.

Can everybody stir your head as I sing?

And if we are guessing the right body part, they'll jump up.

Ready?

Here we go!

♪ Frog in the bucket swimming about ♪ ♪ What can we stir with to make them jump out ♪ Did they jump out?

No, they didn't.

Must not have been the body part they were thinking of.

Can you pick a different one?

(gasps) Oh, I saw somebody pointing to your elbow.

Can we stir with our elbow?

Ready?

Here we go!

♪ Frog in the bucket swimming about ♪ ♪ What can we stir with to make them jump out ♪ Oh, they didn't jump out again.

Hmm... Does somebody have another one?

Oh, I already saw somebody pointing to your ear.

Can we stir with your ear?

Ready?

♪ Frog in the bucket swimming about ♪ ♪ What can we stir with to make them jump out ♪ Oh, did they jump out?!

They did!

Oh, we love it.

Thank you so much, Fragile and Beth.

And I guess I will say to you, maybe at home, if you have maybe some socks at home, you could make a puppet at home.

♪ And that was music with Bhoo (intriguing bright upbeat music) - Hola, muchachos.

I'm Senor Johnson, it's time for us to learn Spanish.

Come on aboard.

Today, we're gonna talk about clothing.

Every day, when we get up, we put on clothes.

But how do you say clothes in Spanish?

The Spanish word for clothes is ropa.

Ropa.

When we first think of things we need to put on, (gasps) we need to put on shorts.

The word for shorts in Spanish is pantalones cortos.

Pantalones cortos, or you can just say cortos.

If you really wanna be lazy, say shorts.

That's what I say, I say shorts.

Next, we would need to put on a shirt.

The word for shirt in Spanish is camisa.

Camisa This is a camisa.

I'm wearing a camisa, are you wearing a camisa?

I hope so.

And we gotta cover our feet.

We wear medias.

Look at these bright, colorful medias.

Do you have a medias?

I do.

And here's a fun thing to fill it all out.

These are shoes, or in Spanish, they're called zapatos.

Can you say "Zapatos?'

Zapatos is spelled with a Z, but it's pronounced zapatos.

It's really a fun word to say.

I'm wearing zapatos, are you wearing zapatos?

So let's review.

Pantalones cortos, pantalones cortos.

Camisa, camisa.

Medias, these are medias.

See how long they are?

And, last but not least, look at this beautiful colored, zapatos, zapatos.

Think about what you need to put on.

But think about the words in Spanish.

Adios, rum-pum-pum-pum-pa, learning Spanish is fun.

(intense techno upbeat music) - Great day, everybody.

This is Candice with "Khaos," and I wanna tell you about my friends, the Khaos Kids.

They are kids that have big feelings just like you, but they have learned a breathing exercise to help them whenever they have uncomfortable feelings.

And so, I want you to do it with me.

You ready?

Close your eyes, breathe in, (inhales deeply) hold it, and let it out.

(exhales deeply) And so, I want you to do that.

Make sure you breathe in, (inhales deeply), and let it out.

(exhales deeply) Whenever you have uncomfortable feelings, I want you to use that skill.

You got this.

Air hugs and cyber kisses.

- Welcome back to this amazing classroom!

Did you have a fun adventure today?

Are you sure?

Well, tell me about it then.

Tell me about something that happened on your adventure today.

Yeah, that was the same thing that happened on my adventure.

Wow!

All right, today, yes, it is time for my little lesson.

I get to teach you a little bit of something.

What is this that you see?

What is this?

It's a plug-in?

Yes.

You know what we're talking about today?

Energy.

Where do you get energy from?

We get energy from... Yeah, things like this, electricity.

But make sure if you touch anything electric, that gives you electricity, you have a grown up with you during that time.

All right, so we get our power, our energy, from electricity.

But, guess what?

There are also many different types of energy, a few different types of energy.

One is you get energy from, what's that big thing in the sky?

The sun!

Yes, you get energy from the sun.

Another is when you, you know, down there people fish in it sometimes.

No, not the lake, the... River!

Yes, we get water energy, we get energy from the water.

And another one is, um... (Dr.

Sanders imitates howling) Yes, that's wind!

That's wind!

And where do we get our energy from?

What do you do to get energy?

You eat!

So we get energy from food!

Those are different types of energy that help us survive.

But guess what, boys and girls, I gotta use my energy to spell our favorite word, and what's our favorite word?

Nine!

N-I-N-E, nine!

Thank you for being in Room 9!

Bye-bye!

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There is hope.

Call or text 988.

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