Big Hero 6
- Grades: 6 to 9
- Common Sense Media: parents say 6+, kids say 7+
- CS strength: 4 out of 5
- SEL strength: 2 out of 5
- Rotten Tomatoes: 90% critics, 91% audience
What happens
Hiro is a robotics prodigy in the city of San Fransokyo. After a tragedy, he is left with Baymax, an inflatable healthcare robot his older brother built. Hiro upgrades Baymax and teams up with a group of friends to find out who is behind a masked villain’s attacks. Along the way he has to decide what to do with his talent.
Why we watch it
Hiro and his friends test, break and redesign again and again, which is what real engineers do. Baymax is a good example of a machine that follows its programming and still surprises us. The film also asks what you should do with a skill: use it to hurt someone or to help.
Standards alignment
Answer key and teacher notes
- B What type of robot is Baymax originally designed to be?
- B What invention does Hiro create for the science showcase?
- B Who is revealed to be the masked villain?
- C What does Hiro initially want to use Baymax and his friends for?
- C How does the team ultimately save Callaghan's daughter?