When it comes to gathering water data, the “employee of the month” may look a little on the “green and cubical” side. Alongside Yorkshire rivers, there are multiple green boxes working hard to gather data on river quality that should, in a couple years, be available for river users and potential swimmers to access through an app that tracks pollution.
Though there are currently apps that show pollution data, that information is old and outdated. This upcoming app is special, because it will use live data from an on-site sensor to provide real-time pollution levels in the water. It’s not meant to tell people “safe” or “not safe” or “swim” or “don’t swim,” but it can give people what they need to make an informed decision... mostly.
The green boxes have a big shortcoming: they’re unable to detect some really nasty bacteria like E.coli, which can only be measured in a lab. But don’t worry, old-school scientists are on the case, manually taking samples to send away for analysis. These findings will be used to build a data set that will be combined with green box data, and AI learning will infer when E.coli (and other bugs) are present in the river.
So, today, we celebrate a beautiful marriage — one of traditional testing, new technology, and AI. It may not be the pairing you’re rooting for on Love Island, but it shows great promise for water safety!
The new 4×4 Rubik's Cube has more layers than the classic 3×3, which makes it harder to solve. A 22-year-old student named Matt Pidden decided to build a robot that could solve one — and he designed, built, and programmed the whole thing in just 15 weeks as a school project. He named it "the Revenger."
The robot is a box with four mechanical "hands" that reach in from the sides to grip the cube. Two cameras scan the cube so the Revenger knows where every colored square is. Then a program Matt wrote figures out the fastest way to solve it, and the robot twists each side until the cube is solved.
The Revenger solved the cube in 55 seconds, breaking the old robot record of 1 minute and 18 seconds, set back in 2015. That's impressive — but it's still way behind the human world record of 15.71 seconds. So no need to worry about robots taking over the world just yet.
If humans have the Olympics, robots have their own ultimate showdown: the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China. It’s a high-energy mix of sport and science where humanoid robots sprint, box, and compete in athletic challenges designed to test just how “human-like” they really are.
But this isn’t just for fun (though it definitely looks fun to watch). Engineers use the competition to push their robots to the limit — testing speed, balance, coordination, and decision-making. Every stumble or success helps them figure out how to build smarter, stronger machines for the future. There’s prize money and recognition on the line too, which helps fuel a fast-growing robotics industry already backed by billions of dollars.
And no, this doesn’t mean robot athletes are about to take over your school sports day. Experts say humanoid robots are still mostly heading toward factories and specialized jobs — not everyday life. So for now, the biggest robot “athlete” you’ll probably meet is still your vacuum cleaner doing laps around the living room.
Muhammad Ali, from his rise as a boxing champion to his inspiring comeback and lasting global influence. Students will follow Ali’s journey through triumph, controversy, and perseverance as he fought to regain the heavyweight title and became one of the most recognized athletes in history.
This Kahoot examines key moments in Ali’s story, including the court case that temporarily cost him his boxing license and championship, his dramatic return to the ring, and the determination that defined his later years after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Students will build listening skills, vocabulary, and historical awareness while exploring how Ali’s courage, confidence, and resilience inspired millions around the world.
Watch the related BBC videos, Cassius Clay Becomes Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Ali's Comeback, then invite your Grade 6–12 students to test their knowledge and discover why Muhammad Ali remains a global symbol of strength, perseverance, and conviction.
In JoJo and Gran Gran Go Birding, it’s springtime and JoJo and her grandmother are excited to see the baby birds that waddle, quack, and cheep. A real-life girl and her family make a bird box for their backyard. This video is excerpted from BBC’s JoJo & Gran Gran, a children's animated television series following JoJo, an inquisitive and cheerful 4-and-a-half-year-old girl and her loving Gran Gran, who always has something new to teach her.
Trace the path and write the things O can see on his way to bed (a fox in a box! a dog on a log!). When you're done, tuck O and his ted into bed.
Watch full episodes of Alphablocks on their official YouTube channel!
Meet the Icons of the 20th Century. From brilliant scientists and inspiring activists to legendary athletes and artists, these remarkable individuals changed the world in powerful ways. In this video playlist of clips from BBC's Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, meet Muhammad Ali, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Pablo Picasso, Jane Goodall, Pelé, Billie Holiday and others — each a trailblazer who shaped history through courage, creativity, and conviction. A perfect playlist to inspire young minds to think big and act boldly!
Adding the same number together is called doubling. Try these doubling puzzles. Check the box next to the correct Numberblock.
Double One is...
Double Two is...
Double Three is...
Double Four is...
Double Five is...
Doubles are handy to know for adding up quickly. Can you find any doubles around your home, e.g. eggs in their boxes or coins?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
As students explore each dinosaur and dig site combo, they can record their findings in this Paleontologist Field Journal. For each site, students will fill in:
- Dig Site Observations: Answer questions about the Visit the Dig video.
- Fact File: Using information from the Meet the Dinosaur video and your own research, fill in all the boxes.
- Coloring page: Color the detailed scientific drawing of the dinosaur.
It's all part of our Walking With Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip!
You'll need to print this double-sided. Select the option to flip on the long edge. To assemble the journals, students will stack the double-sided pages together, fold in half, and staple along the short edge.
Teamwork makes the swing work! Mum and Dad are putting together a brand-new swing seat. Can you sort out the stages it’s built in... with no squabbling? First, cut out the pictures and then paste them in the right order (use the words in the boxes to help you!).
Inspired by Season 2, Episode 24 "Flatpack": With Mum and Dad assembling the flatpack furniture, the kids improvise games with the discarded wrapping materials. As the flatpack swing-seat takes shape, so does Bluey and Bingo’s mini-world.
Help Doctor Bluey through the maze to her patient, collecting her doctor thingymajigs along the way!
Top Tip: Recycle some old boxes and decorate them to make a doctor surgery for your teddies. Use the bits and bobs from your doctor set too!
Inspired by Season 1 Episode 18 "The Doctor": Honey is stuck in the waiting room with receptionist Bluey as Dr. Bingo prioritises patients with more exciting injuries, until Honey demonstrates how her tail can wag her body.
How ya goin'? This page is for making your very own Bluey. Read a fruit-batty story, color in a keepy-uppy ballon, and drop Bluey off at school. All you need is a cereal box, paint, glue, and this Make Your Own Bluey template. Did you know that Bluey is a 6-year-old blue heeler? She has three spots on her back. Her bedding has bone pics on it and her bed has a big B!
When it comes to gathering water data, the “employee of the month” may look a little on the “green and cubical” side. Alongside Yorkshire rivers, there are multiple green boxes working hard to gather data on river quality that should, in a couple years, be available for river users and potential swimmers to access through an app that tracks pollution.
Though there are currently apps that show pollution data, that information is old and outdated. This upcoming app is special, because it will use live data from an on-site sensor to provide real-time pollution levels in the water. It’s not meant to tell people “safe” or “not safe” or “swim” or “don’t swim,” but it can give people what they need to make an informed decision... mostly.
The green boxes have a big shortcoming: they’re unable to detect some really nasty bacteria like E.coli, which can only be measured in a lab. But don’t worry, old-school scientists are on the case, manually taking samples to send away for analysis. These findings will be used to build a data set that will be combined with green box data, and AI learning will infer when E.coli (and other bugs) are present in the river.
So, today, we celebrate a beautiful marriage — one of traditional testing, new technology, and AI. It may not be the pairing you’re rooting for on Love Island, but it shows great promise for water safety!
The new 4×4 Rubik's Cube has more layers than the classic 3×3, which makes it harder to solve. A 22-year-old student named Matt Pidden decided to build a robot that could solve one — and he designed, built, and programmed the whole thing in just 15 weeks as a school project. He named it "the Revenger."
The robot is a box with four mechanical "hands" that reach in from the sides to grip the cube. Two cameras scan the cube so the Revenger knows where every colored square is. Then a program Matt wrote figures out the fastest way to solve it, and the robot twists each side until the cube is solved.
The Revenger solved the cube in 55 seconds, breaking the old robot record of 1 minute and 18 seconds, set back in 2015. That's impressive — but it's still way behind the human world record of 15.71 seconds. So no need to worry about robots taking over the world just yet.
If humans have the Olympics, robots have their own ultimate showdown: the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China. It’s a high-energy mix of sport and science where humanoid robots sprint, box, and compete in athletic challenges designed to test just how “human-like” they really are.
But this isn’t just for fun (though it definitely looks fun to watch). Engineers use the competition to push their robots to the limit — testing speed, balance, coordination, and decision-making. Every stumble or success helps them figure out how to build smarter, stronger machines for the future. There’s prize money and recognition on the line too, which helps fuel a fast-growing robotics industry already backed by billions of dollars.
And no, this doesn’t mean robot athletes are about to take over your school sports day. Experts say humanoid robots are still mostly heading toward factories and specialized jobs — not everyday life. So for now, the biggest robot “athlete” you’ll probably meet is still your vacuum cleaner doing laps around the living room.
Muhammad Ali, from his rise as a boxing champion to his inspiring comeback and lasting global influence. Students will follow Ali’s journey through triumph, controversy, and perseverance as he fought to regain the heavyweight title and became one of the most recognized athletes in history.
This Kahoot examines key moments in Ali’s story, including the court case that temporarily cost him his boxing license and championship, his dramatic return to the ring, and the determination that defined his later years after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Students will build listening skills, vocabulary, and historical awareness while exploring how Ali’s courage, confidence, and resilience inspired millions around the world.
Watch the related BBC videos, Cassius Clay Becomes Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Ali's Comeback, then invite your Grade 6–12 students to test their knowledge and discover why Muhammad Ali remains a global symbol of strength, perseverance, and conviction.
In JoJo and Gran Gran Go Birding, it’s springtime and JoJo and her grandmother are excited to see the baby birds that waddle, quack, and cheep. A real-life girl and her family make a bird box for their backyard. This video is excerpted from BBC’s JoJo & Gran Gran, a children's animated television series following JoJo, an inquisitive and cheerful 4-and-a-half-year-old girl and her loving Gran Gran, who always has something new to teach her.
Trace the path and write the things O can see on his way to bed (a fox in a box! a dog on a log!). When you're done, tuck O and his ted into bed.
Watch full episodes of Alphablocks on their official YouTube channel!
Meet the Icons of the 20th Century. From brilliant scientists and inspiring activists to legendary athletes and artists, these remarkable individuals changed the world in powerful ways. In this video playlist of clips from BBC's Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, meet Muhammad Ali, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Pablo Picasso, Jane Goodall, Pelé, Billie Holiday and others — each a trailblazer who shaped history through courage, creativity, and conviction. A perfect playlist to inspire young minds to think big and act boldly!
Adding the same number together is called doubling. Try these doubling puzzles. Check the box next to the correct Numberblock.
Double One is...
Double Two is...
Double Three is...
Double Four is...
Double Five is...
Doubles are handy to know for adding up quickly. Can you find any doubles around your home, e.g. eggs in their boxes or coins?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
As students explore each dinosaur and dig site combo, they can record their findings in this Paleontologist Field Journal. For each site, students will fill in:
- Dig Site Observations: Answer questions about the Visit the Dig video.
- Fact File: Using information from the Meet the Dinosaur video and your own research, fill in all the boxes.
- Coloring page: Color the detailed scientific drawing of the dinosaur.
It's all part of our Walking With Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip!
You'll need to print this double-sided. Select the option to flip on the long edge. To assemble the journals, students will stack the double-sided pages together, fold in half, and staple along the short edge.
Teamwork makes the swing work! Mum and Dad are putting together a brand-new swing seat. Can you sort out the stages it’s built in... with no squabbling? First, cut out the pictures and then paste them in the right order (use the words in the boxes to help you!).
Inspired by Season 2, Episode 24 "Flatpack": With Mum and Dad assembling the flatpack furniture, the kids improvise games with the discarded wrapping materials. As the flatpack swing-seat takes shape, so does Bluey and Bingo’s mini-world.
Help Doctor Bluey through the maze to her patient, collecting her doctor thingymajigs along the way!
Top Tip: Recycle some old boxes and decorate them to make a doctor surgery for your teddies. Use the bits and bobs from your doctor set too!
Inspired by Season 1 Episode 18 "The Doctor": Honey is stuck in the waiting room with receptionist Bluey as Dr. Bingo prioritises patients with more exciting injuries, until Honey demonstrates how her tail can wag her body.
How ya goin'? This page is for making your very own Bluey. Read a fruit-batty story, color in a keepy-uppy ballon, and drop Bluey off at school. All you need is a cereal box, paint, glue, and this Make Your Own Bluey template. Did you know that Bluey is a 6-year-old blue heeler? She has three spots on her back. Her bedding has bone pics on it and her bed has a big B!