Did You Know?
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A snail can sleep up to 3 years!!
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Turtles the size of small cars roamed Earth 60 million years ago.
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Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
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Butterflies taste with their feet!
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Joke
Q: Why is a fish easy to weigh?
A: Because it has it's own scales!
Did You Know?
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In 1969 the first man walked on the moon
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The sun is so big you could fit 1 million Earths inside of it!
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Comets are balls of ice and dust that orbit the sun
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Esteroids are made up of metals and rocky material
Life In Space
The International Space Station travels around the Earth at 17,000mph, so astronauts on board see 16 sunrises and sunsets in just one day!
Water doesn’t flow in space. To clean, astronauts wipe their body using a wet towel soaked with body shampoo.
Did You Know?
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Recycle whatever we can: plastic, paper, glass, gin
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Reuse items instead of buying new each time such as shopping bags or drinks bottles
70% of the earth is covered in water
Save The Planet
Here are ways we can all reduce waste to help protect our planet from pollution
Did You Know?
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Hearing We can listen to sounds with our ears
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Smell We sniff with our nose
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Vision We see through our eyes
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Taste Our mouths are full of tastebuds
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Touch Our skin can feel if a surface is rough, smooth or sticky
The average heart beats 100,000 times a day
Your nose & ears continue growing throughout your entire life
If you hold your fists with your thumbs touching, that's the size of your brain
Our Senses
Animal Kingdom
Scientists have made a way to group, or classify, animals so they are easier to study and talk about. This depends on things they share in common such as their habitat, body type, how they reproduce and how they breathe. Learn about the 6 common different animal groups and then take our quiz to see if you can sort more creatures into their group.
Out Of This World
Our solar system is made up of the below eight planets, as well as other objects including comets, asteroids and dwarf planets such as Pluto. Everything in the solar system orbits around the sun.
This solar system is in a galaxy called the Milky Way along with over a billion stars, all held together by the force of gravity. We cannot be sure how many galaxies are in the whole unniverse but some estimate it to be at least 200 billion some of which are as old as 13.2 billion years old.
This is the order of planets from the sun, if you need help remembering here is a rhyme:
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming.
Earth
There are two types of trees: Evergreen trees which keep their leaves or needles all year around. Deciduous trees lose their leaves in autumn after they change colour. Every tree has leaves that are different shapes and sizes. Next time you are in the garden or out for a walk see how many of these you can find.
Body
The adult body is made up of 100 trillion cells, 206 bones, 600 muscles, and 22 internal organs. Every organ plays a vital role from our breathing to digestion of food and the cleaning and pumping of our blood around our body.
Amphibians
Reptiles
Fish
Birds
Mammals
Insects
Activity Ideas
Build a bug hotel in your garden.
Design your own creepy crawly.
Activity Ideas
Plan your trip to the moon. Design your ship and list what you need.
Make a telescope & go star gazing.
Activities
Leaf Rubbings
Put a leaf on your page and colour on top with crayon
Litter Picking
On your next walk take gloves and a bag
Activities
Blindfolded Feeling test: Hand each other objects to identify
