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Recources, articles and activities for Key Stage 2

Grow a cress head!

Experiment with your food

Make a kite!

How high can you fly a kite?

Make a homemade hearing aid

How do we hear?

Catch the pigeon!

Robot falcons on patrol...

Invention Suspension

Get inventive with Wallace & Gromit's World of Cracking Ideas

Crafty camouflage

Can you spot the animals (and people)?

Meat-eating plants

What’s green, lives on the ground and eats meat?

Penguins - extreme divers

Can you hold your breath for as long as a penguin can?

Team WILD needs your help!

Join an elite squadron of science superheroes on an exciting mission...

Bacteria, burps and smelly feet

3 disgusting things – EXPLAINED!

Cosmic Comics - the final chapter!

The final episode of our astronomy adventure has arrived!

What does an astronaut wear?

Try on a spacesuit!

What do you know about...Mars?

Anyone out there?

Star Wars Science - Episode I

Meet the real-life androids that might be a match for C3PO

Nature's fireworks display!

Sun storms and bright lights

Why does the Sun look small?

We answer your questions!

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Hydrogen

Two hydrogen atoms are having a drink.
"Cripes!" says the first one, "I've lost an electron"
"Are you sure?" asked the second one,
"Yes I'm positive!"