
Let’s solve problems with Super Grover 2.0!
Special | 11m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Super Grover 2.0 and his Muppet pals solve problems using STEM.
Super Grover 2.0 and his Muppet pals solve problems using STEM. Let’s Learn is an educational public television series that supplements at-home learning for children ages 3 to 8.
Let's Learn is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS

Let’s solve problems with Super Grover 2.0!
Special | 11m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Super Grover 2.0 and his Muppet pals solve problems using STEM. Let’s Learn is an educational public television series that supplements at-home learning for children ages 3 to 8.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] He observes, he questions, he investigates.
- [Grover] What does this button do?
- Whoa.
- [Narrator] Super Grover 2.0, he shows up.
Somewhere by a woodland stream, one little duckling is about to waddle into a big problem.
- Ha ah, yippee.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
I can't wait to get to the party.
It's going to be so much fun.
Huh, a stream?
And the party is on the other side.
Oh no, how will I ever get across, help, help.
- [Grover] Ahh, oh, oh, oh.
- Super Grover 2.0, you showed up.
- It is what I do.
So, what seems to be the problem, little one?
- I'm trying to get to that party over there, but I don't know how to get across the stream.
- First, I shall unleash the power of observation, mmm.
- Oh, oh, I don't want to miss the party, oh, oh.
- Hmm, I see with my super eyes that you walk like a duck.
- Quack.
- Ah, and I hear with my super ears that you quack like a duck.
- Quack.
- My super powers of observation tell me that you are a duck.
- Of course I'm a duck, quack.
- Well, then do not be Daffy Duck.
You can swim across the stream, everyone knows that ducks can swim.
- Oh, yes, but if I swim across, I'll ruin my brand new party shoes, look.
- Stunning, but wait, ducks can also fly, can they not?
If you fly to the other side, your shoes will not get wet.
- Oh, yes, but I'm just a duckling, a baby duck, I haven't learned to fly yet.
- Ah, a toddler waddler, I see, yes.
So, the question is how can a duckling cross the stream without getting her new shoes wet?
- That's the question.
- Well, fear not, my fashion forward friend, I will now unleash the power of investigation.
Hmm, hmm, excuse me.
- Sure.
- Ah, I see the stream is full of water, no wonder it is so wet.
We must soak up all this water and dry out the stream.
- How, have you got a plan up your sleeve?
- No, but I have a towel down my sock.
Ha, ha, this highly absorbent paper towel should do the trick.
- One paper towel?
I don't think that's enough to soak up all the water in the stream, Super Grover.
- Uh ho ho, I beg to duffer, Dicky, uh, differ, Ducky.
Observe as I simply dip this towel into the stream.
Ah and would you look at all the water it absorbed?
Yes, there, you can run along to your party now, the stream is all dried up.
- No, no, it's not, it's still full of water.
- What?
- Oh, if only there were a bridge here.
- What's that now?
- Something sturdy and dry that connects one side of a stream to the other side.
- Oh, you mean a crossy over thing?
What good would that do?
- Well, I could walk across it without my shoes getting wet.
- Ah, well then stand back, for I, Super Grover 2.0, will now unleash the power of engineering and design you a crossy over thing.
- You mean a bridge.
- Yeah, whatever, design, design, design, and ta-da.
- A bridge made of broccoli?
- Yes, it is the latest in green design, what do you think?
- Well, I don't think that broccoli is the right thing to make a bridge out of Super Grover.
- Of course it is.
Now, let me check my utility sock for some broccoli.
Ah, ah, there we are.
And now, I will just follow my design and place this broccoli across the stream.
- Oh no, the broccoli is not long enough to reach the other side of the stream.
Now I'll never get to the party.
I'm gonna cry.
[duckling crying] - Well, it is your party, you can cry if you want to, but I know what I must do.
- What?
- Find a longer piece of broccoli.
There must be one here somewhere, hmm, ha?
What is this wooden rounded thingy doing in my sock?
- Hey, maybe we could use that.
- Ha, do not be silly, this is not broccoli.
- I know, it's a log, Super Grover, and it looks like it might be long enough to stretch across the stream.
- Not now, little waddler.
First, ah, I must find that pesky vegetable, ah.
- Then it's time for me to unleash the power of engineering.
Super Grover, look, I just made my own bridge.
- That's not broccoli, ah, ah.
- Oh well, I guess I'll just build the bridge myself then.
If I can just push this log over to the stream.
- Ah, where's the broccoli?
- Super Grover, I did it, I engineered a bridge with the log, it was long enough.
Okay, let's see if this works.
Ah, I'll start on this side and waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle, waddle to the other side without getting my shoes wet, ha.
It worked, now I can go to the party.
Thanks for the log, Super Grover.
- Ah, do not thank me you lucky ducky.
Enjoy the party.
- [Narrator] And so our Grover, indebted engineer, needs the right size and shape materials to solve a problem.
- Well, it looks as though my work here is done.
Up, up and away.
Whoa, oh, oh, perhaps next time I should take the bridge.
- Welcome to the party, Super Grover.
- Party.
- Well, while I'm here, I might as well get my party on.
Ha ha, yeah.
- Whoo.
- Whoo.
[ethereal music] - [Narrator] In a world where love can be hard to find, some things can be even harder to find.
- Darling, I love you, will you make me happy as a clam and marry me?
Aahhh.
- Oh my stars, yes, yes, yes.
Oh, oh, oh no, oh.
- I'm all right.
- Well, where's my ring?
- Hmm, oh, I don't know, honey, did you see where it landed?
- Oh no, it's lost in the sand.
How will we ever find it?
- [Grover] Ahhh.
- Oh, wait, do you hear that sound?
- The hit or lick music?
- Uh, no, the other sound, like a sick walrus.
- Ahhh, oh, oh, oh, puh, puh, uh.
Greetings, it is I, Super Grover 2.0.
- We are so glad you showed up.
- That is what I do, now how can I help?
- Well, I've lost my engagement ring somewhere on this beach.
Can you help us?
- Have no fear, I shall unleash my powers of observation and have a looksy.
Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm.
Well, no wonder you cannot find your ring, this whole place is covered in sand.
- Well, yes, it is a beach.
- The ring is somewhere in the sand.
- Hmm, I shall once again unleash my powers of observation and get a closer looksy, unleash.
I shall pick up this sand and, I shall pick up this sand and, uh, why is it so hard to pick up this sand?
- Because sand is made up of many tiny pieces of rock or shell, it just falls through the spaces between your fingers.
- Huh, so it does.
But, but then how do you explain this?
- That shell must've been in the sand, the little pieces of sand feel between your fingers and the bigger shell got sifted out.
- Hey, maybe that's how I can find my ring.
We can use something to sift it out of the sand.
- Yes, something with a hole in it, so the sand will fall through, but the ring won't.
- Stand back, I shall now unleash the power of technology.
Let's see what tools I have in my utility sock.
Ah, ah ha, this should do the trick.
- A bagel?
- It does have a hole, but will it really work as a sifter?
- Let us investigate and try to sift, sift, sift.
- Oh, it's no good.
The sand falls through, but so does everything else.
Nothing got sifted out, the hole is too big.
- Okay, I will just put it back in my sock then.
[bird squawking] Ah, hey, my bagel, I was planning on eating that.
- Oh, we're never going to find my ring.
- Oh, there, there, my little starlet, we just need something with smaller holes.
- Ah, I know just the thing, ah ha.
- Swiss cheese, this was in your sock?
- I get very hungry on the job.
- Well, Swiss cheese does have smaller holes, but will it make a good sifter?
- Time to investigate and sift, sift, sift.
- It's not working.
The Swiss cheese doesn't have enough holes, so the sand can't go through.
That's not a good sifter, after all.
- Eh, oh well, I will just save it for snack time later.
[seagull squawking] Ah, hey, my cheese.
Ugh, the gall of that gull.
[seagull squawking] - Oh, my ring is going to be lost forever.
- Oh, don't worry, my shining star, all we really need is something with a lot of holes, a lot of tiny holes.
Don't you have any tools like that in your sweat sock?
- Utility sock, let me check.
Hmm, all I have left in here is this spaghetti strainer.
- Wait, that could work.
It's got tiny holes and lots of them.
This is just what we need to sift the tiny sand and find my ring, start sifting.
- All right, all right, sift, sift, sift.
But I do not think it will work.
After all, this is meant for spaghetti, it is not going to help us find a.
- Oh, it's my ring.
Now we can get married.
- Aww, congratulations, this calls for a celebration.
I keep a cake in my other sock for special occasions just such as this.
Ah, ha, ha, ha.
[seagull squawking] Oh no you don't.
- [Narrator] And so, using his super powers of observation and investigation, our hero found that a sifter is a tool that helps separate small and large pieces.
- No, no, this is not for you.
Not for you, no.
[seagull squawking]
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Super Grover 2.0 helps his friends solve problems using a wedge and pulleys. (11m 36s)
UP THE CREEK/A PRICKLY PROBLEM
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Super Grover 2.0 helps a friend up the creek without a paddle and solves a prickly problem (11m 33s)
DOWN ON THE FARM/CART BEFORE THE HORSE
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Super Grover helps friends find a needle in a haystack & put the cart before the horse. (11m 34s)
HOW NOW DOWN COW?/ROCKING THE BOAT
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With the help of Super Grover 2.0, a cow uses a ramp, sheep & an elephant balance a boat. (11m 35s)
CROSS THAT BRIDGE/THE LOST RING
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Super Grover 2.0 helps friends solve problems by making a bridge and sifting sand. (11m 33s)
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