WALL-E
- Grades: 6 to 9
- Common Sense Media: parents say 5+, kids say 5+
- CS strength: 4 out of 5
- SEL strength: 1 out of 5
- Rotten Tomatoes: 95% critics, 90% audience
What happens
A small trash-compacting robot is the last one still working on an Earth buried in garbage. He spends his days stacking trash and collecting odd treasures, until a sleek probe robot named EVE lands and he falls for her. When EVE takes a tiny green plant back to a huge spaceship full of humans who have not walked in generations, WALL-E follows. The trip changes everything for the people on board.
Why we watch it
A robot with a simple job does something nobody programmed him to do: he cares. It is a good movie for asking what the difference is between following instructions and making choices, and what happens to people who let technology do everything for them. The worksheet leans on those ideas, plus writing a problem’s solution as steps like code.
Standards alignment
Answer key and teacher notes
- B What is WALL-E's main job on Earth?
- B What type of robot is EVE designed to be?
- C What is the name of the spaceship where humans live?
- C What does WALL-E find that becomes very important to the story?
- B Who or what has been controlling the Axiom ship and keeping humans from returning to Earth?