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30 TV Shows That Are Actually Educational

Topics: bill nye, doug, education, featured, mister rogers, sesame street, technology, television

If youre like me, you can identify at least half of these shows by characters alone. Childhood television

shows are (sadly) quite clear in my memory and its easy to recall some of my favorites. Thats why Imcontinuing the nostalgia series of posts by reminding you that television isnt completely terrible when itcomes to education.

While many of the following shows are off the air, some are still going strong. I hope this post encouragesyou to reflect and remember some of your favorite educational TV shows. Once you do that, you shoulddrop me a note down in the comments or mention @edudemic on Twitter and Ill add your show to this list!

Sesame Street

Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooneyand Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a childrens television
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show that would master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them, such ashelping young children prepare for school.

After two years of research, the newly formed Childrens Television Workshop (CTW) received a combinedgrant of $8 million from Carnegie, the Ford Foundation, and the US federal government to create andproduce a new childrens television show. Harold (Doc) Howe II, the US Commissioner of Education, and afriend of Morrisett, provided the first $4 million after brain-storming with his staff how to best reach innercity children via the TV antennas on their roofs with excellent pre-school TV programming which wouldhave behind it, careful formative and summative research on best practices. Since no funds were earmarkedfor this, Howe decided to use research funds for the initial CTW start-up grant and that began the practiceof each segment of Sesame Street being the result of carefully conducted R&D.

One of his assistants, Harold C. Lyon, wrote his doctoral dissertation on integrating the affective with thecognitive. Howe appointed Lyon the U.S. Office of Educations project officer for Sesame Street and theElectric Company where he met with the CTW Advisory Board using his influence to integrate the affectivewith the cognitive content of Sesame Streets program content for more indelible learning.

Mister Rogers Neighborhood

Mister Rogers Neighborhood, also known as Mister Rogers, is an American childrens television series thatwas created and hosted by Fred Rogers. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages, 2-5, but has beensaid by PBS as appropriate for all ages. Mister Rogers Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers non-profit production company FamilyCommunications, Inc. (named Small World Enterprises prior to 1971). It is the second longest runningseries on PBS, after Sesame Street. The series could be seen in reruns on most PBS stations until August 29,2008, when it was removed by PBS from their daily syndicated schedule along with Reading Rainbow,Boohbah, and Teletubbies. A number of stations have chosen to continue airing it independently of the PBS

feed.

Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is an American childrens television game show based on thecomputer games of the same name created by Brderbund Software. The program aired on PBS fromSeptember 30, 1991 to December 22, 1995 (with reruns until October 4, 1996) and starred Lynne Thigpen asThe Chief, Greg Lee as The ACME Special Agent (renamed Senior Agent for Seasons 35) in charge oftraining new recruits, and Rockapella as the house vocal band and comedy troupe.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? holds the record for being the longest-running game show on PBSand as the second longest running childrens game show in U.S. television history behind Double Dare (for


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which Greg was a contestant coordinator). The program received the George Foster Peabody Award forexcellence in 1993. The programs theme song, written by Sean Altman and David Yazbek, has maintainedpublic awareness over the years. In 2001, TV Guide ranked the show at #47 on its list of 50 Greatest GameShows of All Time.

Schoolhouse Rock

Schoolhouse Rock! is an American series of animated musical educational short films that aired during theSaturday morning childrens programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics coveredincluded grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. The series original run lasted from1973 to 1985, and was later revived with both old and new episodes airing from 1993 to 1999. Additionalepisodes were produced as recently as 2009 for direct-to-video release.

Reading Rainbow

Reading Rainbow is an American childrens television series aired by PBS from June 6, 1983 until August28, 2009 that encouraged reading among children. The award-winning series garnered over 200 broadcastawards, including scores of Emmy Awards, many for Outstanding Childrens Series. The series wascreated under the leadership of Cecily Truett Lancit and Larry Lancit, at Lancit Media Productions in NewYork. The concept of a reading series for children was inspired by Twila Liggett, Ph.D., of Lincoln,Nebraska of the Great Plains National Instructional Television Library at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Paul Schupbach, director of the Great Plains National Instructional Television LIbrary; and TonyButtino, of WNED-TV Buffalo, New York.

The original team included Lynne Brenner Ganek, Ellen Schecter, and LeVar Burton as host.Each episodecenters on a theme from a book or other childrens literature which is explored through a number ofsegments or stories. The show also provides book recommendations for kids to look for when they go to thelibrary. It is the third-longest running childrens series in PBS history, after Mister Rogers Neighborhoodand Sesame Street.

Reading Rainbow has won a Peabody Award and twenty-six Emmy Awards, ten of which were in theOutstanding Childrens Series category.

Former executive producer LeVar Burton announced on his Twitter feed on March 19, 2010, that ReadingRainbow 2.0 is in the works.


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Bill Nye the Science Guy

Bill Nye the Science Guy is an educational television program that originally aired from September 10,1993 to June 20, 1998, hosted by Bill Nye and produced by Walt Disney Educational Services.

The show aired on PBS Kids and was also syndicated to local stations. It still airs on some PBS stations asan educational program for in-school use. Each of the 100 episodes aims to teach a specific topic in scienceto a preteen audience. The show is frequently used in schools.Created by comedian Ross Shafer and basedon sketches on KING-TVs sketch program Almost Live!, Bill Nye the Science Guy was produced byKCTS-TV of Seattle.

The Electric Company

The Electric Company is an educational American childrens television series that was produced by theChildrens Television Workshop (now called Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States. PBSbroadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977. After itceased production that year, the program continued in reruns from 19771985.

The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program tohelp elementary school children develop their reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduatedfrom CTWs flagship program, Sesame Street. Appropriately, the humor was more mature than what wasseen there.

Wishbone


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Wishbone is a television show which aired from 1995 to 1998 and reruns from 1998 to 2001 in the UnitedStates featuring a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. The main character, the talking dog Wishbone,lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. As he tends to daydreamabout being the lead character of stories from classic literature, drawing parallels between the stories andevents in the lives of Joe and his friends, he was known as the little dog with a big imagination. The showfollows his daydreams, as Wishbone acts out a famous story from literature or folklore.

Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak (and furthermore, thecharacters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying andnot as a dog). The show has won four Daytime Emmies, a Peabody Award, and honors from the TelevisionCritics Association. Wishbones exterior shots were filmed on the backlot of Lyrick Studioss teen divisionBig Feats! Entertainment in Allen, Texas, and its interior shots were filmed on a sound stage in a 50,000

square foot (4,600 square metres) warehouse in Plano, Texas.

The show garnered particular praise for refusing to sugarcoat many of the sadder or more unpleasant aspectsof the source works, which usually enjoyed a fairly faithful retelling in the fantasy sequences.The televisionseries also inspired several book series. Altogether, there are more than fifty books featuring Wishbone,which were published even after the TV series ended production, up to 2001. It continues to air reruns bysome PBS affiliates.

Zoom

ZOOM encouraged children to turn off the TV and do it! On the show, a cast of (usually) seven kids(known as ZOOMers) present or perform various activities such as games, plays, poems, recipes, jokes,songs, movies, science experiments, and informal chats on such subjects such as hospitals, prejudice, etc.,all suggested by viewer contributions. These activities are introduced by such titles as ZOOMovie, ZOOMPlay of the Week, ZOOMrap (later ZOOMchat), ZOOMgame, ZOOMdo, ZOOMgoody,ZOOMphenomenon, etc.

The mail-in request became a pop culture reference for its music exhortation to Write ZOOM, Z-Double-O-M, Box 3-5-0, Boston, Mass 0-2-1-3-4: send it to ZOOM!. The exhortation was spoken but the ZIPcode was sung in a barbershop quartet style.

The program also has various language games, including Ubbi-Dubbi, where the syllable ub was addedbefore each vowel sound in each syllable of each word (H-ub-i, fr-ub-iends, etc.). Another languagegame, Fannee Doolee, centers around a character who likes any person, place, thing or concept withdouble letters in it but hates its non-double-lettered equivalent, e.g., Fannee Doolee likes sweets but hatescandy.


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Blues Clues

Blues Clues is an American childrens television show airing on the Nickelodeon family of channels. Theshow premiered on September 8, 1996 and airs on Nick Jr. and other channels, although production of newepisodes ceased by 2006.

Versions of the show have been produced in other countries, most notably in the United Kingdom. It wascreated by a green team of producers, Todd Kessler, Angela C. Santomero, and Traci Paige Johnson, whoused concepts learned from child development and early-childhood education research to create a televisionshow that would capture preschool childrens attention and help them learn. They used the narrative formatin their presentation of material, as opposed to the more traditional magazine format, and structured every

episode the same way.

Barney & Friends

Barney and Friends, also referred to by HiT Entertainment as Barney the Friendly Dinosaur, is anindependent childrens television show produced in the United States, aimed at children from ages 18. Theseries, which first aired in 1992, features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorphicTyrannosaurus Rex who conveys learning through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, optimisticattitude. Since September 18, 2009, the show has been on hiatus.

Beakmans World


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Beakmans World is an educational childrens television show produced by ELP Communications,Columbia Pictures Television, Universal Belo Productions, and Columbia TriStar TelevisionDistribution.The program is based on the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip You Can WithBeakman and Jax created by Jok Church. The series premiered September 18, 1992 on The LearningChannel (TLC) cable network and in national syndication (225 stations, a freshman year record). OnSeptember 18, 1993 it moved from national syndication to CBS Saturday morning childrens lineup.

At the peak of its popularity, it was seen in nearly 90 countries around the world. The series was canceled inmid-1998. Reruns returned to national syndication in September 2006, after which it was transferred to localstations such as KICU. The show debuted a year prior to Bill Nye the Science Guy, which covered similartopics. The shows host, Paul Zaloom, still performs as Beakman in live appearances around the globe.

Dragon Tales

Dragon Tales is an animated pre-school childrens television series chronicling the adventures of twosiblings, Max and Emmy and their dragon friends Cassie, Ord, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal. The televisionseries, based on characters designed by Ron Rodecker, was created by Jim Coane, an Emmy-award-winningcreator and executive producer. Originals have been shown on the PBS Kids Channel/PBS Kids Sprout andPBS in the United States from Labor Day 1999 to November 25, 2005. However, PBS has declared that itwill no longer hold the license to the series starting on September 1, 2010. Dragon Tales has been removedfrom the PBS websites. Episodes of the show are still sold on DVD.

Teletubbies

Teletubbies was a BBC childrens television series, primarily aimed at pre-school viewers, produced from1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. It was created by Anne Wood CBE, Ragdolls creative director, andAndrew Davenport, who wrote each of the shows 365 episodes. The programmers original narrator was

Tim Whitnall. The programme first aired on 31 March 1997, was syndicated in the United States on the PBSnetwork on 6 April 1998 and aired until June 19, 2005.

In 2001 production was canceled and it was announced that no new episodes would be produced, with thelast episode being aired on 5 January 2001. However, a total of 365 episodes had been produced enoughfor a full year. The series was one of four PBS shows to be taken off its regular airing, the other showsbeing Boohbah (in 2005), Reading Rainbow (in 2006) and Mister Rogers Neighborhood (in 2008).

Zoboomafoo


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Zoboomafoo is an American childrens television series that aired from January 25, 1999, to April 21, 2000,and is still shown today in syndication depending on the area, and it is regularly shown on PBS Kids Sprout.A total of 65 episodes were aired. A creation of the Kratt Brothers (Chris and Martin Kratt), it features atalking Coquerels Sifaka, a type of lemur named Zoboomafoo, or Zoboo for short and a collection ofrepeat animal guests. Every episode begins with the Kratt brothers in Animal Junction, a peculiar place inwhich the rules of nature change and wild animals come to visit and play. On January 19 2004 the show waspulled from its weekday airing.

Pee Wees Playhouse

The Pee-wee Herman character was developed by Reubens into a live stage show entitled The Pee-weeHerman Show in 1980. It featured many characters that would go on to appear in Playhouse, including

Captain Carl, Jambi the Genie, Miss Yvonne, Pterri the Pterodactyl and Clocky.

While enjoying continuous popularity with the show, Reubens teamed with young director Tim Burton in1985 to make the comedy film Pee-wees Big Adventure. It became one of the years surprise hits, costinga relatively modest $6 million to make but taking in $45 million at the box office.After seeing the success ofPee-wees Big Adventure, the CBS network approached Reubens with an ill-received cartoon seriesproposal.

In 1986, CBS agreed to sign Reubens to act, produce and direct his own live-action Saturday morningchildrens program, Pee-wees Playhouse, with a budget of $325,000 per episode, (comparable to that of ahalf-hour prime-time sitcom) and full creative control (although CBS did request a few minor changes overthe years).

Bob the Builder


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In the original series Bob appears as a building contractor specialising in masonry in a stop motion animatedprogramme with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours and friends, and their gang ofanthropomorphised work-vehicles and equipment (all made of clay). The show is broadcast in manycountries, but originates from the United Kingdom where Bob is voiced by British actor Neil Morrissey.

The show was later created using CGI animation starting with the spin-off series Ready Steady Build.Ineach episode, Bob and his gang help with renovations, construction, and repairs and with other projects asneeded. The show emphasizes conflict resolution, co-operation, socialization and various learning skills.Bobs catchphrase is Can we fix it?, to which the other characters respond with Yes we can!. Thisphrase is also the title of the shows theme song, which was a million-selling number one hit in the UK.

Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer is an American animated television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, andEric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeoncable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. It aired on CBS until September 2006. ASpanish-dubbed version first aired as part of a Nick en espaol block on NBC Universal-owned Telemundothrough September 2006; since April 2008, this version of the program has been carried on Univision aspart of the Planeta U block.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American childrens book series first published in 1963. Written by NormanBridwell, the series helped establish Scholastic Books as a premier publishing company.Clifford was the


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runt of the litter, and was chosen by a city child named Emily Elizabeth as her birthday present. No oneexpected Clifford to grow, but Emily Elizabeths love for her tiny red puppy changed Clifford dramatically.Before long, he was over 25 feet tall, forcing the Howard family to leave the city and move to the openspaces of Birdwell Island.

Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional steam locomotive in The Railway Series books by the Rev. W.Awdry and his son, Christopher. He became the most popular character in the series, and the accompanyingtelevision spin-off series, Thomas and Friends.Thomas is a tank engine, painted blue with red lining, anddisplays the running number one.

All of the locomotives in The Railway Series were based on prototypical engines; Thomas has origins in theE2 Class designed by Lawson Billinton in 1913.Thomas first appeared in 1946 in the second book in theseries, Thomas the Tank Engine, and was the focus of the four short stories contained within.In 1979, theBritish writer/producer Britt Allcroft came across the books, mortgaged her house and used her savings tobring the stories to life as Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (later simplified to Thomas and Friends).The programme became an award-winning hit around the world, with a vast range of spin-off commercialproducts.

Boohbah

Boohbah is a 2003 childrens television series produced by Ragdoll Productions and aimed at childrenbetween three and six years old. It premiered in April 2003 on ITV in the United Kingdom, and on 19January 2004 in the United States on PBS. It was created by Anne Wood with scripts by Alan Dapre andRobin Stevens (of Pob fame).

Anne Wood also created the childrens show Teletubbies (another Ragdoll series). The similarity betweenthis show and Teletubbies, both of which have a science fiction theme, is notable. The website says, Thedesign of the show visually and otherwise, draws upon early concepts in science, maths and art andcombines these with televisual magic to create a uniquely funny television experience. One of the showstrademarks is a childs voice pronouncing the shows name in sing-song (BOOH..BAH).

There are 104 twenty-five minute episodes. The show was shown in the USA on PBS Kids in HD until2005 when it was taken off the air along with Teletubbies and Reading Rainbow. Boohbah was also shownin the Netherlands on Nick Jr.. Currently, the series continues to air on Tiny Pop in the UK. Boohbahmeans doll in Hebrew, and the rounded shape of the central characters is reminiscent of the bouba/kikieffect, but it is not clear if these ideas influenced the name of the show.


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WordGirl is an American childrens animated television series for children aged 6-12, produced by theSoup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The show began as a series of shortsthat premiered on PBS Kids GO! on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of Maya & Miguel; thesegment was then spun off into a new thirty-minute episodic series that premiered on September 3, 2007 onmost PBS member stations. This animated show is aimed at people seven and older and is designed to teachabout the expansive English language and its vocabulary.

This is also the second (The first was Libertys Kids) PBS Kids program to have a TV-Y7 rating. The firsttwo seasons each have twenty-six episodes; on June 10, 2009 it was announced that a third season wasordered, and it began airing on many PBS stations August 23, 2010, consisting of an additional twenty-sixepisodes. The show has been renewed for three additional seasons in August of 2010.

The Big Comfy Couch

The Big Comfy Couch is a Canadian childrens television series about Loonette the Clown and her dollMolly, who solve everyday problems on their Big Comfy Couch. It aired from 1992 until early 2006. Re-runs of the show are still being aired on Treehouse TV. It was produced by Cheryl Wagner and RobertMills, directed by Wayne Moss and Mills. It premiered on March 2, 1992 in Canada and in 1995 in the USAon public television stations across the country.

The shows format revolves around Loonette the Clown, who lives with her doll Molly on the eponymousBig Comfy Couch. Episodes are generally focused on a theme or a lesson. For example, Season 3#s episodeFull of Life explored the concepts of full and empty, while Sticks and Stones dealt with name-calling and teasing.

Arthur


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Arthur is an American/Canadian animated educational television series for children, created by Cookie JarGroup (formerly known as Cinar) and WGBH for the Public Broadcasting Service. The show is set in thefictional American city of Elwood City, and revolves around the lives of 8-year-old Arthur Read, ananthropomorphic aardvark, his friends and family, and their daily interactions with each other. There is astrong emphasis on the educational value of books and libraries as well as relationships with friends andfamily members. The series is often noted for dealing with social and health-related issues that affect youngchildren, such as the death of a pet, dyslexia, and more recently cancer, Aspergers Syndrome andAlzheimers disease

Doug

Doug premiered on Nickelodeon on August 11, 1991, where it continued until December 16, 1994, and was

aired in reruns until 2003, being the first Nicktoon. As of 2009, Nickelodeons Doug airs reruns on MTVsaffiliates KBEH and KMOH-TV (as an E/I program) in the US and on Nicktoonsters in the UK.In the firstepisode, Douglas Yancey Funnie and his family (Phil, Theda, and sister Judy) arrive in a new town calledBluffington after moving away from their former residence in Bloatsburg.

There he meets Skeeter, Patti, Roger, and Beebe, and his new life in a new town begins.John Kricfalusi, thecreator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, stated on a DVD commentary for his show that among the threeoriginal Nicktoons (Rugrats being the other one), Nickelodeon was banking on Doug to be its major hit.This, however, was not the case; Rugrats would go on to be the biggest hit of the three original Nicktoons,going on to have the longest run of any Nicktoon to date and still airing on the channel as of 2011, whereasDoug (in its Nickelodeon incarnation) had the shortest run of the three and is the only one of the three notairing in reruns on any of the Nickelodeon networks.

Cyberchase


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The show stars three Earth children Matt, Jackie and Inez and Digit, a cyboid (a bird-like cyborg).The three kids and Digit use their math and problem solving skills to stop the evil deeds of the Hacker andhis two cyborg henchmen, Buzz and Delete.The series takes place in Cyberspace, with planet- like bodiescalled Cybersites. Each cybersite is inhabited by Cyborgs the virtual inhabitants of Cyberspace. Someare based on real-world places, such as ancient Egypt and the American Old West, or fantasy worlds, suchas mythological Greece. The guardian of all Cyberspace is Motherboard; her repairman is Dr. Marbles

The Smurfs

The storylines tend to be simple tales of bold adventure. The cast has a simple structure as well: almost allthe characters look essentially alike mostly male, very short (as tall as 3 crab apples high), with blue skin,white trousers with a hole for their short tails, white hat in the style of a Phrygian cap, and sometimes some

additional accessory that identifies a personality. (For example, Handy Smurf wears overalls instead of thestandard trousers, a brimmed hat, and a pencil above his ear.)

Smurfs can walk and run, but often move by skipping on both feet. They love to eat sarsaparilla (a speciesof Smilax) leaves, whose berries the smurfs naturally call smurfberries (the smurfberries appear only in thecartoon; in the original comics, the Smurfs only eat the leaves from the Smilax). Smurfs are almost neverseen without their traditional white hat on, but the few exceptions suggest that smurfs have no hair, with theexception of Smurfette and later Sassette, who are technically not smurfs.

The Smurfs fulfill simple archetypes of everyday people: Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, Brainy Smurf, andso on. All smurfs, with the exception of Papa, Baby, Smurfette, Nanny and Grandpa, are said to be 100years old. There were originally 99 smurfs, but this number increased as new Smurf characters appeared,such as Sassette and Nanny. Smurfette is not one of the original smurfs because she was created byGargamel, the evil wizard. Its also coming to theaters soon!

Go, Diego, Go!
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The show features an 8-year-old boy, Diego Mrquez, who helps animals in danger, mainly in therainforest. His cousin is Dora from Dora the Explorer, as revealed in multiple shows. Diego was firstintroduced in an episode of Dora the Explorer titled Meet Diego! (originally voiced by brothers Andres andFelipe Dieppa). Diego has a jaguar companion named Baby Jaguar who assists him on adventures. ThomasSharkey, who is the voice of Baby Jaguar, is also the singing voice of the kangaroo Austin in theBackyardigans. Baby Jaguar also appears in Dora the Explorer but inconsistently; on Go, Diego, Go! hetakes a more active role, which includes being able to speak. Its unknown whether Diegos parents let himkeep Baby Jaguar as a pet or Baby Jaguar adopted Diego. Diegos grandfather has a strawberry farm, andhe made his first appearance in Green Iguana Helps Abuelito Plant a New Farm! It was unknown whetherhe was Diegos maternal grandfather or paternal grandfather. Diego is also very ticklish, which is revealedin Diego Saves Baby River Dolphin.

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1. @graingered on April 25, 2011 at 11:21 am said:

Designed to be "educational" and actually teaching kids something are two totally different things.Perhaps you should do some research into the actual educational value of these shows before you citethem as educational. I think you will find that although fun to watch, some had no measurable positiveeducational effect at all.

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2. Ryan on May 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm said:

So you think there needs to be a test after every episode to see if our kids learned anything?

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3. Gracie on July 26, 2011 at 5:25 pm said:

Wordworld I find is such an amazing show my soon watches it. Super why is always very good..

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4. scientistmom on August 11, 2011 at 11:42 pm said:

For more science related education, I think the following currently produced shows are worthwhile formy preschooler and kindergartener to watch.:Curious GeorgeSid the Science KidThe Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About ThatAnd, for the dinosaur obsessed 5 year old, Dinosaur TrainThe Kratt Brothers have done more than just Zoboomafoo; there is also Kratt's Creatures shown onPBS and Kratts Be the Creature.

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5. Fertility on November 23, 2011 at 2:38 am said:This is quite an exhaustive list youve got there, will comment more if I can recall any educationalshow Ive encounter in the past.

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6. Jennwis on March 10, 2012 at 12:55 am said:

Super Why, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Bubble Guppies

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7. mctoonish on April 3, 2012 at 3:31 pm said:

My daughters three favorites didnt make your list Dinosaur Train, Word World and Super Why.

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Hi, I think this is an excellent list and a good guide for parents looking for more from childrenstelevision. We are a small company making short, ten-minute fun films about really famous peoplefrom history like Isaac Newton, Vincent Van Gogh, Galileo, Christopher Columbus and many more.We aim to tell kids the life story of these well-known names in an engaging and simple way.Educationalists, parents and teachers tell us that this simple, fun format works well with youngchildren as well as adults whove forgotten exactly who the famous scientists Marie Curie is and whatshe did. Please check out our website and if you like it, consider adding us to your list next time!

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