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Moko

Moko

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How does a rainbow happen? Is a star living or dying? What is Spring? These are just some of the many questions that a young child will ask. Moko answers these questions as he travels all over the world, discovering many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him and other times scare him. Each of the 52 animated episodes recounts and adventure and ends with an explanation of what seems unexplainable. This series is in both English and Spanish, and each 5-minute video includes extended description which provides introductions to both the story and the science segments. To further enhance the learning experience, these introductions and all other description also have been captioned for the benefit of students who are deaf.

Illustration of rain falling on a rock. Caption: It is a very slow process that happens over millions of years.
Moko
Episode 1
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of two people walking, one wearing a knapsack with an iguana on their head. Caption: "We have got to warn my village. The mountain is angry.
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Episode 2
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a small single-sail boat dwarfed by a menacing wave. Caption: "about your tornados, winds, and currents.
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Episode 3
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a stream of water being heated by underground magma. Caption: In its heated state, the water wants to escape the spring
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Episode 4
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of low, round huts with a person walking through them. Caption: Arriving home, Moko saw that the moon was there in the sky.
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Episode 5
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a rainbow against the sky. Caption: What a surprise, the rainbow was back!
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Episode 6
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a tree with a few leaves on the branches. Caption: This bark can be very thin, or quite thick.
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Episode 7
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a stream of water falling down the side of a mountain. Caption: Waterfalls are often stronger during spring,
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Episode 8
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of cold air near the ground and warm air at higher elevation. Caption: Winds are born between these air zones.
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Episode 9
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a river and tree partially obscured by grayish-white thin clouds. Caption: When we can see through the cloud, we call it a mist.
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Episode 10
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Two people in a hammock, suspended above the ground. Caption: A low, rumbling sound, muffled and far away,
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Episode 11
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a person laying down in a boat as the boat runs aground on a beach. Caption: Slowly, his boat came to rest on a familiar beach.
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Episode 12
5 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of heat rays moving from the Sun towards the Earth. Caption: Thus, the climate will change during the course of a year.
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Episode 13
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of mountains and the night sky with a crescent moon reflected on water. Caption: No plant or animal can survive for long in these salt deserts.
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Episode 14
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a large chunk of ice floating in the water. Caption: It floats and drifts on the ocean.
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Episode 15
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a pocket of water below the earth's surface. Caption: The water tables are nourished by the seeping-down rains.
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Episode 16
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of clouds in the sky. Caption: (narrator) Thunderstorms occur when it's hot and humid near the ground,
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Episode 17
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a bird's head over a landscape with a winding river and some hills. Caption: you'll arrive back where you started, having circled it all."
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Episode 18
5 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a mountain with snow on the peak starting to melt down one side of the mountain. Caption: Some floods are triggered by mountain snows melting
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Episode 19
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a map of the world centered on South America. Caption: The Amazon Forest is a region of great ecological importance
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Episode 20
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a cloud with ice particles floating above a frozen landscape. Caption: tiny pieces of ice, called ice nuclei,
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Episode 21
5 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of brightly colored coral and plant life with tropical fish swimming through it. Caption: Coral reefs look like giant, underwater gardens
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Episode 22
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of the Sun and planets closest to it, including Earth, shedding bits of bright light. Caption: Solar wind is very hot and blows across all the planets
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Episode 23
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of water with an arrow indicating a current moving through the water parallel to the surface. Caption: There are two types of marine currents.
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Episode 24
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of the Sun, moon, and Earth. Caption: and the moon circles around the earth.
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Episode 25
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of water with a circular shape outlined beneath the surface. Caption: (narrator) Blue holes are deep, underwater wells.
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Episode 26
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a map of the world. Caption: Cenotes are found in North America and Central America,
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Episode 27
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of rough water with a dark, funnel shaped cloud touching the surface. Caption: Ocean tornadoes move very rapidly.
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Episode 28
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Map of the Eurasian continent and pacific islands, as well as the Indian and Pacific oceans. Caption: (narrator) A monsoon is the name for a meeting of winds
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Episode 29
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a barren landscape with rain falling. Caption (narrator) In tropical climates, there are only two seasons:
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Episode 30
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a mountain in heavy rain with darker earth running down one side of it. Caption: (narrator) Mudslides are very fluid, and flow very, very quickly.
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Episode 31
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of the Earth and other planets with a belt of floating rocks between them. Caption: Our planet is surrounded by a belt of asteroids
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Episode 32
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a dry, brown landscape and an orange sun. Caption: These areas are very dry and semi-arid,
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Episode 33
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of water running up against a rocky cliff. Caption: (narrator) As you've probably noticed, ocean water is salty.
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Episode 34
5 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of sand dunes. Caption: Water on the surface of the ground evaporates quickly
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Episode 35
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of sand with an arrow moving from the sky across the image. Caption: This is called quicksand.
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Episode 36
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Image of a layer of ice above liquid water. Caption: This is called sea ice.
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Episode 37
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of mountains with a raincloud over the valley between them. Caption: Lakes provide not only drinkable water and water to spray crops,
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Episode 38
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a ring of islands surrounded by a thin line of sand and shallow water. Caption: They can only be found in warm seas.
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Episode 39
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a cluster of green plants in the middle of a dry landscape. Caption: That's what we call an oasis.
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Episode 40
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of stars on a deep blue background. Caption: It's inside these clouds that stars are born.
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Episode 41
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a strong wind blowing leaves across a hilly landscape. Caption: The stronger the wind, the louder the sound.
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Episode 42
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a large amount of snow sliding down a hillside. Caption: It's not a very rapid avalanche, but it's very solid.
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Episode 43
5 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a steep sand dune. Caption: We call these dunes singing dunes.
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Episode 44
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a person on a hilltop facing a series of bigger mountains. Caption: (narrator) This phenomenon is called an echo.
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Episode 45
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of a high mountain with a channel in the middle worn away and a river of water on the bottom of the channel. Caption: We call this phenomenon erosion.
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Episode 46
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of earth against space. Earth has a line through the north and south pole, but the line is not vertical. It is tilted. Caption: But it doesn't spin completely straight; it is slightly tilted.
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Episode 47
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of trees growing on a mountain. Caption: Some of these forests grow on mountains.
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Episode 48
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of water against a curved shoreline. Caption: The tides vary in strength in different places on Earth.
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Episode 49
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Illustration of an island breaking the water line with a larger volume of the island under water. Caption: These are called volcanic islands.
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Episode 50
5 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
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