The plucky marsupial siblings of Work It Out Wombats! will be back with a fresh batch of episodes on March 17, airing on PBS KIDS. In these upcoming adventure, Malik, Zadie and Zeke find innovative ways to use computational thinking to solve everyday kid challenges. Viewers will also be introduced to a new character, Chanáa’, Grandmother Super’s best friend who is Alaska Native and challenges the kiddos to learn how to solve riddles.
A marathon of Work It Out Wombats! featuring the new episodes will launch on the PBS KIDS 24/7 channel on March 29.
Additionally, Season 2 of the Work It Out Wombats! Podcast kicks off on March 20. Over eight episodes, the Wombats give step-by-step ways to solve big problems while managing their big feelings. Each episode ends with a song that kids can then sing to solve problems in their own lives. The podcast will be available on PBS KIDS, Apple, Spotify and all major podcast streaming platforms.
Listen to the S2 podcast trailer here.
Work It Out Wombats! takes place in the Treeborhood — a massive treehouse complete with secret passageways, gondolas and rope swings. The residents of the Treeborhood — wombats, snakes, moose, kangaroos, iguanas, fish, tarsiers and eagles — bring varied skills and abilities, assorted ways of thinking, and different family structures and traditions to this diverse and vibrant community of neighbors, a place where even the adults join in the play.
Each episode includes two 11-minute stories, accompanied by a 90-second music video, featuring the Wombats as they demonstrate their computational thinking skills, learning as they go. Their aspirations sometimes exceed their abilities, but with every problem they encounter, the trio stops, takes a breath, puts their heads together and comes up with a workable solution, using the design process, sequencing, debugging and other key computational thinking skills.
The series i produced by GBH Kids and Pipeline Studios.
New Episodes:
Treeborhood Cause and Effect Machine / Riddles of the Treeborhood
- Watch the Family Food game show and cheer on the Shelly family? Or do a favor for the Shellys and water their Sunberry Blossom plant? The Wombats can’t do both … although maybe they can, if they can perfect their “Cause and Effect” machine in time.
- Super’s best friend Chanáa from Alaska pays a visit to the Treeborhood (he’s a lot of fun and has endless riddles up his sleeve). If the Wombats can solve three riddles of increasing difficulty, they just might win Chanáa’s special prize!
The Great Splendito / The Bike Wash
- After a surprise storm makes a muddy mess of everyone’s bikes, the Wombats team up to create a bike-cleaning machine that will get everyone’s ride sparkling in time for the big parade.
- Imagine the most amazing, unusual hotel in the whole wide world and you’re pretty much describing the Lakeview Hotel, deep beneath the waters of Lake Bellyflop. With music rooms and a movie theater and free popcorn and underwater views, it’s a great place to visit and a hard place to leave.
Tricky Tricky Taiko Drum / Toy Swap Flop
- Time for a Taiko drum concert! The Wombats will be performing, only Zeke keeps getting confused. There are so many different sound patterns in the Treeborhood — washing machines, snow cone makers, remote-controlled hammers. Can he stick to the one drum pattern he needs to play?
- Zadie borrows a toy from Louisa, then promptly loses track of it. Oh, but it’s so hard to admit that she’s done this. What if Louisa gets too sad? Or mad? From Ellie, Super, and Malik, Zadie learns how to make a plan for keeping track of your stuff.
Survey Says / Lost and Found Patrol
- To have purple ping-pong balls at the Emporium, or not to have? That is the question on the survey the Wombats are conducting for Mr. E. Though somehow, they’re getting answers to all the wrong questions.
- Gramma Super can’t watch her favorite TV show without her glasses, and now she’s gone and lost them. Time to call in the Lost and Found Patrol (a.k.a. Zadie, Malik, and Zeke). If it’s lost, it will be found, when the Lost and Found Patrol’s around!
Ellie’s Island / Buckley’s Wombatty Playdate
- The Wombats are happy to help Ellie pack a barrel full of gifts for her family back in Jamaica, until they start to suspect and worry that she might be planning to stay in Jamaica. Is there a way to make her want to come back to her Treeborhood home?
- When Buckley comes over for a playdate, Zadie quickly learns that having a friend over can have unexpected effects — for worse (splattering yellow paint everywhere and breaking Zadie’s favorite puppet) and for better (getting to eat extra-special, blueberry, chocolate chippy pancakes with smiley face whipped cream on top!).
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