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Beat Winter Illness: Science-Backed Tips to Stay Healthy
The article "Beat Winter Illness: Science-Backed Tips to Stay Healthy" from BBC Science Focus covers evidence-based remedies like taking zinc and vitamin C, washing hands regularly, and getting a flu vaccine to stay healthy during winter.
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Practice Addition to Seven With the Numberblocks and the Friendly Fluffies

Lots of funny furballs have arrived in Numberland... and they won't stop tickling. Sevens are not ticklish! How lucky is that! Make 7 to help the Numberblocks escape the tickles. Tee-hee! 

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Meet Friendly Alphablock F!

Trace over four f letters and help F have fun flying with her ffff sound. Scribble on fur to make a fab friend for F! What do you think fur feels like — fluffy or spiky?

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Build Number Sense With This Great Numberblocks Bundle of 16 Printables

Bring the delightful Numberblocks characters into your math classroom with this engaging number sense printable bundle, perfect for PreK–Grade 2 learners! Packed with colorful worksheets, this bundle includes important number sense concepts like the number line, place value in tens, comparing numbers, simple addition and more! Here's some of what's included:

  • Blockzee Puzzles: Trace to finish the greater than and less than sums.
  • Friendly Fluffies: Add to make 7 and help the Numberblocks escape the tickles
  • Hello, Twenty: Count to 20 in lots of different ways!

Want more? We have tons on the site. Just search "Numberblocks"!

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Amazing Pets Playlist

Get ready to meet some of the fluffiest, funniest, and most fascinating pets around! In this special collection from My Pet and Me, hosts Ferne Corrigan and Rory Crawford introduce us to animals with big personalities and even bigger hearts, from talkative Siamese cats and stylish poodles to gentle donkeys and deaf dogs who don’t let anything hold them back.

Each episode celebrates the joy of having a pet while teaching kids how to care for animals with kindness, patience, and curiosity. Whether you're learning how to groom a pony or discovering how a station cat spends her day, this collection highlights the many ways pets enrich our lives and how we can return the favor.

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Sarah and Duck Bake a Cake

In Sarah and Duck Bake a Cake, Sarah and Duck are baking a special cake for Duck’s birthday! They mix flour, milk, and baking powder to make it big and fluffy — but oops! The batter spills! Luckily, the cake starts talking and helps them fix it. When the cake comes out of the oven, Sarah realizes it’s now the cake’s birthday, too! So Sarah, Duck, and the talking cake go to the park to celebrate with songs and fruit loaf. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Sarah & Duck, a kids' show about the adventures between seven-year-old Sarah and her quacky, flappy best friend, Duck.

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The Emperor Penguin Playlist: Survival, Chicks, and Chilly Adventures

Waddle into the wild with one of nature’s most beloved birds: the penguin! This BBC Learning Hub playlist follows the lives of these flightless wonders as they brave the cold, dive through icy waters, and care for their fluffy chicks.

Meet the determined emperor penguins of Antarctica and discover how they adapt to harsh environments, work together in colonies, and avoid danger from predators like leopard seals. With narration from Blue Planet and other BBC favorites, this collection offers a closer look at the strength, smarts, and sheer adorableness of penguins in the wild.

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Why Whale Watching Matters

In Why Whale Watching Matters, whale watchers discuss how seeing a whale makes them feel. In the past, whales were hunted for their oil, baleen, flesh, and bones; an estimated 3 million of them were killed. Now that this has stopped, numbers of humpback whales are increasing. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Natural World: Humpback Whales — A Detective Story, a documentary about our relationship with whales and their future alongside us.

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Humpback Whale Anatomy 

In Humpback Whale Anatomy, people discuss their close encounters with whales. Professor Joy Reidenberg discusses what she has learned from dissecting dead whales. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Natural World: Humpback Whales — A Detective Story, a documentary about our relationship with whales and their future alongside us.

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Butterfly Tales

In Butterfly Tales, learn how butterflies bring joy and beauty to the world as they flutter into gardens and woods each spring. Dr. Bullman, a butterfly expert, shows how tracking butterflies helps scientists understand if the environment is healthy or not. She explains how to tell butterflies and moths apart — like how butterflies rest with their wings up, while moths rest with their wings flat. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Countryfile, which explores rural life and traditions of the countryside.

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Inside a Glacier

In Inside a Glacier, geologist Iain Stewart describes how scientists work inside an ice cave carved deep in a glacier in Norway. They learn how ice, a brittle substance, can be powerful, strong, and fluid at the same time. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Earth: The Power of the Planet, a documentary series in which Dr. Iain Stewart discovers how Earth's forces can shape nature, species, and even the climate.

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Sewage Treatment, A Dirty Job

In Sewage Treatment, A Dirty Job, presenter Cherry Healey visits the sewer pipes and a wastewater treatment plant in Brighton to learn exactly what happens after we flush the toilet. Learn various techniques, from egg-shaped pipes to bacteria turning sewage into water that can be returned to the environment. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.