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The U.S. Civil Rights Movement was a pivotal period in American history, marked by decades of struggle to end racial segregation, secure equal rights under the law, and demand that the nation live up to its democratic ideals. In honor of Black History Month, this rich collection of learning resources for secondary students explores this era from multiple angles and brings important history to life.
Leveled Articles + BBC Video Clips + Printables + Civil Rights Quiz
Easy, joyful activities for kids ages 4–7 inspired by Bluey and her family.
"Learning isn't just in books. It's everywhere!" Teachers, parents, and kids all over the world love Bluey for its humor, charm, and life lessons. Here are 15 free fun and easy activities (+ amazing, ready-to-go printables) based on freely-available episodes — like "Baby Race" and "Pass the Parcel" — of your favorite children's show. Watch the show together and then do the activities to get kids thinking and feeling!
Gung Hei Fat Choy!
Celebrate Lunar New Year with the BBC Learning Hub’s curated resources for students ages 4-14. Through videos, articles, and printables, students can explore the traditions, symbols, and stories that mark this important holiday. From family gatherings and festive foods to lanterns, lion dances, and the Chinese Zodiac, these resources help students understand how Lunar New Year is celebrated across cultures and communities around the world.
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement was a pivotal period in American history, marked by decades of struggle to end racial segregation, secure equal rights under the law, and demand that the nation live up to its democratic ideals. In honor of Black History Month, this rich collection of learning resources for secondary students explores this era from multiple angles and brings important history to life.
Leveled Articles + BBC Video Clips + Printables + Civil Rights Quiz
Easy, joyful activities for kids ages 4–7 inspired by Bluey and her family.
"Learning isn't just in books. It's everywhere!" Teachers, parents, and kids all over the world love Bluey for its humor, charm, and life lessons. Here are 15 free fun and easy activities (+ amazing, ready-to-go printables) based on freely-available episodes — like "Baby Race" and "Pass the Parcel" — of your favorite children's show. Watch the show together and then do the activities to get kids thinking and feeling!
Gung Hei Fat Choy!
Celebrate Lunar New Year with the BBC Learning Hub’s curated resources for students ages 4-14. Through videos, articles, and printables, students can explore the traditions, symbols, and stories that mark this important holiday. From family gatherings and festive foods to lanterns, lion dances, and the Chinese Zodiac, these resources help students understand how Lunar New Year is celebrated across cultures and communities around the world.
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Winter is a season of frosty magic, silent snowfall, and some truly astonishing animal superpowers. But how much do you really know about the creatures that survive — and even thrive — when the temperature plunges?
From Arctic foxes that change coats like fashion pros to bears mastering the art of long naps, wood frogs that freeze without fear, and woolly bear caterpillars predicting winter’s mood swings, this quiz is packed with wild wonders and icy surprises. Only the sharpest nature buffs and winter-survival whiz kids will claw their way to the top of the leaderboard.
On February 17, 2026, the Lunar New Year begins and the Year of the Horse gallops in! Introduce this holiday — celebrated in East and Southeast Asia and in Asian communities all around the wo — to your primary students with a reading passage that explains Lunar New Year and fun Chinese Zodiac activities.
- Lunar New Year and the Chinese Zodiac (reading passage) invites students to explore the origins of the Chinese Zodiac, learn how the lunar calendar works, and discover the legendary animal race that gave each year its zodiac sign. Along the way, students explore how zodiac animals are believed to connect to personality traits and Lunar New Year traditions.
- Meet Your Chinese Zodiac Animal (student activity) has students to put their learning into action by finding their own zodiac sign, reflecting on its characteristics, drawing their animal, and comparing traits with a classmate. Together, these activities encourage students to read, think, and celebrate the Lunar New Year in a fun and meaningful way.
Use this page to show what you know. Who lives where? Remember Odd Street and Even Street? Who lives on each? Draw lines to show who lives where. Count down from 10 to one for blast off. Press the buttons as you count down. Circle all the green aliens. How many are there?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Take your students on a climb through the mountain ecosystem! From the towering Himalayas to the snowy Rockies, mountain ecosystems change as you climb, starting with green forests down low and ending with bare, windswept summits at the top.
✨ Perfect for Grades 3–8, here’s what you need to bring ecosystems to life:
- Iconic BBC Videos: Share the clips on this page to introduce the location, plants, animals, and climate of the mountains. (Don't miss the grizzlies and snow leopards!) Brought to you by world-class BBC programs like Planet Earth.
- Free Printable: Use the Mountain Brochure Template to help students pull it all together in an ecosystem report with facts they’ve learned (and a little extra research).
It’s everything you need to make ecosystems easy to teach and truly memorable for your students.
Winter is a season of frosty magic, silent snowfall, and some truly astonishing animal superpowers. But how much do you really know about the creatures that survive — and even thrive — when the temperature plunges?
From Arctic foxes that change coats like fashion pros to bears mastering the art of long naps, wood frogs that freeze without fear, and woolly bear caterpillars predicting winter’s mood swings, this quiz is packed with wild wonders and icy surprises. Only the sharpest nature buffs and winter-survival whiz kids will claw their way to the top of the leaderboard.
On February 17, 2026, the Lunar New Year begins and the Year of the Horse gallops in! Introduce this holiday — celebrated in East and Southeast Asia and in Asian communities all around the wo — to your primary students with a reading passage that explains Lunar New Year and fun Chinese Zodiac activities.
- Lunar New Year and the Chinese Zodiac (reading passage) invites students to explore the origins of the Chinese Zodiac, learn how the lunar calendar works, and discover the legendary animal race that gave each year its zodiac sign. Along the way, students explore how zodiac animals are believed to connect to personality traits and Lunar New Year traditions.
- Meet Your Chinese Zodiac Animal (student activity) has students to put their learning into action by finding their own zodiac sign, reflecting on its characteristics, drawing their animal, and comparing traits with a classmate. Together, these activities encourage students to read, think, and celebrate the Lunar New Year in a fun and meaningful way.
Use this page to show what you know. Who lives where? Remember Odd Street and Even Street? Who lives on each? Draw lines to show who lives where. Count down from 10 to one for blast off. Press the buttons as you count down. Circle all the green aliens. How many are there?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Take your students on a climb through the mountain ecosystem! From the towering Himalayas to the snowy Rockies, mountain ecosystems change as you climb, starting with green forests down low and ending with bare, windswept summits at the top.
✨ Perfect for Grades 3–8, here’s what you need to bring ecosystems to life:
- Iconic BBC Videos: Share the clips on this page to introduce the location, plants, animals, and climate of the mountains. (Don't miss the grizzlies and snow leopards!) Brought to you by world-class BBC programs like Planet Earth.
- Free Printable: Use the Mountain Brochure Template to help students pull it all together in an ecosystem report with facts they’ve learned (and a little extra research).
It’s everything you need to make ecosystems easy to teach and truly memorable for your students.
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Meet the Leaders Who Shaped a Nation.
They were visionaries and leaders, but they were also imperfect people shaped by their times. From bold founders and wartime decision-makers to reformers and risk-takers, these U.S. presidents guided the nation through moments of hope, conflict, and change.
In this video playlist, explore BBC clips featuring George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, examining both their achievements and their shortcomings. A thoughtful playlist that encourages students to see history with nuance, question leadership, and understand that progress is often driven by complicated people making difficult choices.
In Why Scary Movies Make Us Jumpy, host Harith Iskander explores why certain sounds in scary movies can make us feel uneasy. The concept of sympathetic resonance explains that objects vibrate in response to specific frequencies, meaning that when two objects with similar resonant frequencies are close, one can absorb the vibration of the other and begin to vibrate back. This effect creates sounds that can feel haunting or unsettling to the human ear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.
In Inside a Rhino Wildlife Sanctuary, naturalist Steve Backshall visits a high-security wildlife sanctuary in South Africa. Here he meets baby rhinos that have lost their mothers. This video is excerpted from BBC's Deadly 60, an award-winning nature and adventure show for kids in which narrator Steve Backshall has one mission: to travel the globe in search of 60 of the world's deadliest animals.
In The Magic of Math on the Soccer Field, host Marcus du Sautoy tries to convince one math reject that math is present everywhere in the soccer game he loves — from quadratic equations on the pitch to the probability of a team winning. Du Sautoy makes the case that the soccer players are intuitive mathematical geniuses. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Horizon: Why Maths Doesn’t Add Up, where Marcus du Sautoy introduces the elegance and wonder of math to a “math reject,” traveling from the classroom to a four-dimensional world.
Meet the Leaders Who Shaped a Nation.
They were visionaries and leaders, but they were also imperfect people shaped by their times. From bold founders and wartime decision-makers to reformers and risk-takers, these U.S. presidents guided the nation through moments of hope, conflict, and change.
In this video playlist, explore BBC clips featuring George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, examining both their achievements and their shortcomings. A thoughtful playlist that encourages students to see history with nuance, question leadership, and understand that progress is often driven by complicated people making difficult choices.
In Why Scary Movies Make Us Jumpy, host Harith Iskander explores why certain sounds in scary movies can make us feel uneasy. The concept of sympathetic resonance explains that objects vibrate in response to specific frequencies, meaning that when two objects with similar resonant frequencies are close, one can absorb the vibration of the other and begin to vibrate back. This effect creates sounds that can feel haunting or unsettling to the human ear. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.
In Inside a Rhino Wildlife Sanctuary, naturalist Steve Backshall visits a high-security wildlife sanctuary in South Africa. Here he meets baby rhinos that have lost their mothers. This video is excerpted from BBC's Deadly 60, an award-winning nature and adventure show for kids in which narrator Steve Backshall has one mission: to travel the globe in search of 60 of the world's deadliest animals.
In The Magic of Math on the Soccer Field, host Marcus du Sautoy tries to convince one math reject that math is present everywhere in the soccer game he loves — from quadratic equations on the pitch to the probability of a team winning. Du Sautoy makes the case that the soccer players are intuitive mathematical geniuses. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Horizon: Why Maths Doesn’t Add Up, where Marcus du Sautoy introduces the elegance and wonder of math to a “math reject,” traveling from the classroom to a four-dimensional world.
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Schools are increasingly restricting or banning smartphones from the classroom. As a result, social skills among students have improved and bullying has decreased, but ultimately students are still spending over four hours a day on their phones at home. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
Historical buildings are often protected by law, but what about older trees? The Woodland Trust is working on a Heritage Trees Bill, planting new trees, and attempting to create a national database to make sure these living legends are also protected by the law. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
A breeding dog volunteer gives a permanent home to female dogs that breed future guide dogs. Volunteers are needed to help and are fully supported by area vets, especially when the dogs are pregnant or have litters. This video is excerpted from BBC News, a high-quality news program that provides impartial, distinctive information to educate and entertain.
To help your students dive deeper into news content, we created this bundle of news story response worksheets. We designed these worksheets to be used with any of our news videos and to keep students focused as they watch and enhance comprehension and retention. (Please note that some worksheet types are better fits for certain content and grade levels). Assign students the same one, mix them up, or let them choose!
Schools are increasingly restricting or banning smartphones from the classroom. As a result, social skills among students have improved and bullying has decreased, but ultimately students are still spending over four hours a day on their phones at home. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
Historical buildings are often protected by law, but what about older trees? The Woodland Trust is working on a Heritage Trees Bill, planting new trees, and attempting to create a national database to make sure these living legends are also protected by the law. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
A breeding dog volunteer gives a permanent home to female dogs that breed future guide dogs. Volunteers are needed to help and are fully supported by area vets, especially when the dogs are pregnant or have litters. This video is excerpted from BBC News, a high-quality news program that provides impartial, distinctive information to educate and entertain.
To help your students dive deeper into news content, we created this bundle of news story response worksheets. We designed these worksheets to be used with any of our news videos and to keep students focused as they watch and enhance comprehension and retention. (Please note that some worksheet types are better fits for certain content and grade levels). Assign students the same one, mix them up, or let them choose!
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The greatest stories of all time are true. On this thrilling Walking With Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip, Grade 3–8 students will meet six iconic dinosaurs emerging from incredible digs. Ready to get started? Send your class directly to the Interactive Map to begin the field trip! Be sure to print and give a copy of the Paleontologist Field Journal to each student. You can also find a full lesson plan and more in our Teacher Guide.
Brave the chill and meet the coolest creatures on Earth! This playlist of 11 frosty video clips from BBC landmark shows like Frozen Planet and Planet Earth explores how animals survive some of the coldest places on the planet. Students will learn about adaptations, seasonal behaviors, and the survival strategies that help bison, foxes, seals, grizzlies, snow monkeys, polar bears, lynx, and more thrive in freezing climates.
They’ll discover how winter weather shapes each animal’s daily life; how they find food, conserve energy, protect themselves from predators; and why these icy habitats play a vital role in Earth’s systems.
Teaching ecosystems helps students see how every living thing is connected. That's why we've created our Ecosystems Collection. We cover six ecosystems (grasslands, desert, coral reef, tropical rainforest, mountain, and polar). After watching videos on each ecosystem, challenge your students to become ecosystem experts by creating their own colorful reports filled with fascinating facts. (They’ll need to dig deeper with extra research, too!) There's a brochure template for each of the six ecosystems. Inside, students will uncover and share:
- Location of the ecosystem on a world map
- Adjectives that describe the ecosystem
- Three animals that live in the ecosystem
- Three plants that grow in the ecosystem
- The climate of the ecosystem
- What makes the ecosystem important
- Their favorite fun facts
Your students will summarize the most important details in their own words while keeping it clear and easy to understand. As they choose what to include, they’ll sharpen their ability to evaluate and combine information from different sources. Best of all, they’ll show off their creativity and communication skills by designing a brochure that’s as fun to read as it is informative!