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Choose from over 100 educational videos for kids! In each episode, OOPA discovers a new word and explores the full meaning of the word through a mind-body connection.

Help children connect to emotions like HAPPY, WORRY, and CURIOUS in their minds and their bodies for a 360 degree understanding.

Expose children to the pro-social behaviors you want to see in the classroom and at home, like COOPERATE, FLEXIBLE and PATIENCE.

Strengthen a child's mastery of common learning units in early childhood curricula, like RECYCLE, GARDENING, and WHEEL.

Introduce fundamental civic concepts like DEMOCRACY, VOTE, and COMMUNITY, in a developmentally-appropriate way.

Learning about emotions

Experiencing words through multiple modalities increases accessibility to substantive learning and emotional understanding for children.

Modeling social scenarios

OOPA and her friends model pro-social scenarios for young children.

Introducing new learning concepts

These videos are conveniently aligned with common early childhood curricula topics.

The power of collaboration

OOPA's World teamed up with the Kennedy Center Education team to bring arts and movement together in a whole new way. This civics collection of signature OOPA videos focuses on the five ideals often ascribed to John F. Kennedy: COURAGE, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, SERVICE, and GRATITUDE.

Through this developmentally-appropriate introduction to foundational civic concepts, we aim to support teachers in laying the groundwork for active and engaged citizens.

Building active and engaged citizens

The Civics Collection introduces preschool, preK, and early elementary learners to foundational civic concepts and vocabulary words that will help them process what they already observe all around them, and lay the groundwork for them to become active and engaged citizens.

OOPA explores various civic values and tenets of quality character education in this collection:

• Everyone deserves respect

• Everyone has something to share with their voice

• Contributing to your community and supporting community members is important

• With leadership comes responsibility

• Speaking and listening are both essential parts of a healthy conversation

Write a letter to OOPA!

OOPA loves to receive mail! Download our letter template and tell OOPA about your favorite word. OOPA replies to every letter.

Get the book

Beloved by teachers and families alike, this beautifully illustrated picture book is the foundational text for the series.