<br /> Big Bad Boo Studios GREENCAP Commitment Statement
All Big Bad Boo cartoons, while pure entertainment for kids, are specifically designed to teach 21st-Century skills (including executive function and SEL), as well as other skills like environmental science, literacy and numeracy. In order to do this effectively, our content development teams include childhood development psychologists from Sesame Workshop and PBS, as well as educators and subject matter experts from around the world, making them suitable for use as effective learning tools.

Many of our cartoons have fully developed curricula, which include lesson plans that enable teachers to use them in the classroom as a springboard for discussions and activities that teach children important lessons and skills in a fun and engaging way. To date, these curricula have been used in schools by over 3 million children in 15 countries.

CURRICULUM PROGRAMS: SAMPLE EPISODES AND LESSON PLANS

Grades 4-5

21st-Century Skills, SEL and Life Skills
SAMPLE VIDEO LESSON PLAN

Grades 4-5

Environmental Science and 21st-Century Skills

SAMPLE VIDEO

Grades 3-4

21st-Century Skills, Critical Thinking, Rule of Law, and Social Responsibility

SAMPLE VIDEO LESSON PLAN

Grades 1-2

Executive Function, 21st-Century Skills and Literacy/Numeracy

SAMPLE VIDEO LESSON PLAN

Grades 1-2

Executive Function,21st-Century Skills and Literacy/Numeracy

SAMPLE VIDEO LESSON PLAN

KG – Grade 2

Alphabet, Vocabulary and Phonics

SAMPLE VIDEO LESSON PLAN

TIED TO MAJOR INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORKS

When developing cartoons or curricula, Big Bad Boo’s teams use a development framework that targets competencies and skills tightly aligned with established international frameworks, including CASEL’s SEL Standards, OECD, UNICEF’s Life Skills and Big Bad Boo’s own Civic Education Framework. Because Big Bad Boo’s curricula are delivered in class and have activities for kids to do at home with parents and siblings, they cover two of the four learning contexts of CASEL (in the classroom and at home).

Big Bad Boo’s Content Development Framework

21ST CENTURY SKILLS FRAMEWORK

PROVEN IMPACT USING POWERFUL ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS

All Big Bad Boo programs come with powerful instruments, designed by the former Head of Research from Sesame Workshop and Oxford Data Scientists, to assess and map progress of 21st-Century skills at different age levels. The following charts represent visualizations of different implementations of Big Bad Boo (BBB) programs in schools across North America, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Beyond the data, teachers consistently report that while implementing Big Bad Boo’s curricula, they see significant changes in their students during implementation, including increased empathy, integrity, critical thinking skills, mutual respect, motivation and persistence, as well as reductions in bullying, violence and intolerance.