Planet Science

Under 11s

Recources, articles and activities for Key Stage 2

Experiment with your food

How high can you fly a kite?

How do we hear?

Robot falcons on patrol...

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

Can you spot the animals (and people)?

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

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

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

3 disgusting things – EXPLAINED!

The final episode of our astronomy adventure has arrived!

Try on a spacesuit!

Anyone out there?

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

Sun storms and bright lights

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Shopkeeper: Sorry, I've only got plain