Under 11s

Recources, articles and activities for Key Stage 2
Grow a cress head!

Grow a cress head!

Experiment with your food
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Make a kite!

Make a kite!

How high can you fly a kite?
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Make a homemade hearing aid

Make a homemade hearing aid

How do we hear?
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Catch the pigeon!

Catch the pigeon!

Robot falcons on patrol...
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Invention Suspension

Invention Suspension

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

Crafty camouflage

Can you spot the animals (and people)?
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Meat-eating plants

Meat-eating plants

What’s green, lives on the ground and eats meat?
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Penguins - extreme divers

Penguins - extreme divers

Can you hold your breath for as long as a penguin can?
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Team WILD needs your help!

Team WILD needs your help!

Join an elite squadron of science superheroes on an exciting mission...
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Bacteria, burps and smelly feet

Bacteria, burps and smelly feet

3 disgusting things – EXPLAINED!
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Cosmic Comics - the final chapter!

Cosmic Comics - the final chapter!

The final episode of our astronomy adventure has arrived!
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What does an astronaut wear?

What does an astronaut wear?

Try on a spacesuit!
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What do you know about...Mars?

What do you know about...Mars?

Anyone out there?
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Star Wars Science - Episode I

Star Wars Science - Episode I

Meet the real-life androids that might be a match for C3PO
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Nature's fireworks display!

Nature's fireworks display!

Sun storms and bright lights
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Why does the Sun look small?

Why does the Sun look small?

We answer your questions!
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Make a Triceratops!
Create your very own dinosaur

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Make your own light show
A kaleidoscope is a light show in a tube. You can make your own!

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Make a code wheel
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Helicopter

A man goes into a shop.
Man: I'd like a packet of helicopter flavour crisps please.
Shopkeeper: Sorry, I've only got plain

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