This series features six-year old Daniel Cook. Well-mannered, inquisitive and intelligent Daniel explores the world around him through his own candid questions. Simple, pure, and honest, this is a series that allows children to view everything from Daniel's perspective, seeing what he sees and learning what he learns.
Each segment is six minutes long and they have been aggregated thematically into 13 half-hour episodes, each with 5 separate segments.
There is a companion interactive website to enhance and further the Daniel Cook experience.
The five 6 minute segments in Connecting With Our World - Part II are:
1) THIS IS DANIEL COOK ON A TALL SHIP - Daniel boards a historic tall ship and learns how to tie a knot and let the sails out. Daniel assumes the role of acting Captain and directs the ship to open waters.
2) THIS IS DANIEL COOK TASTING NEW FRUITS - Daniel learns the importance of trying new things when he sits down with a nutritionist. Daniel tries fruit from all over the world and learns not to judge something by how it looks.
3) THIS IS DANIEL COOK AT MEDIEVAL TIMES - Daniel jumps back a thousand years to the exciting, action filled world of knights and armor when he visits Medieval Times. Daniel wears a medieval costume and sees two knights joust!
4) THIS IS DANIEL COOK LEARNING ABOUT EGYPT - Daniel learns about ancient Egypt as he explores the Egyptian exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum.
5) THIS IS DANIEL COOK MAKING A GINGERBREAD HOUSE - Daniel sits down with a local baker to create his very own gingerbread house. Starting with the frame, Daniel constructs a house out of gingerbread pieces before decorating his creation with different candies.
The other 12 episodes are:
1. My Community - Part 1 - Daniel at the police station, at the fire station, at the market, building a sidewalk, and on a train.
2. My Community - Part 2 - Daniel at a street festival, at the doctor, at the dentist, at the zoo, and with the Earth Rangers.
3. Creating Food - Daniel makes chocolate, ice cream, a pie, cookies, and pizza.
4. Creating Art - Daniel at an art gallery, making plasticine art, painting giraffes, drawing dragons, and making a clay dragon.
5. Performing - Daniel learns about busking, clowning, doing magic, learning yo-yo tricks, and visits the Famous People Players.
6. Animals - Daniel milks a cow, learns about raptors, feeds giraffes, trains puppies, and visits a farm.
7. Science - Daniel makes paper, learns about electricity, visits a science center, learns about dinosaurs, and taking pictures.
8. Environment - Daniel Cook learns about composting, visits a rainforest, learns about ponds, bee keeping, and hiking.
9. Language Arts - Daniel creates stories, visits the library, writes poetry, makes a book, and learns about the production of "This is Daniel Cook."
10. Sports - Daniel at a pool, rock climbing, learning Tae Kwon Do, lawn bowling, and skating.
11. Fitness/Movement - Daniel learns gymnastics, does ballet, learns to break dance, tap dance, and exercise.
12. Connecting with Our World - Part I - Daniel learns to bowl, plays the drums, goes horseback riding, canoeing, and flies a plane.
