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.
In Bees and Food Production, a group gathers around the breakfast table to enjoy a breakfast made of food that isn’t impacted by bees. But, aside from a pot of tea and some toast, the table is bare. What foods do bees help us enjoy? Everything from fruit to dairy!
In A Leopard Hunts for Food in the Kalahari, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how a one-year-old African leopard in the Kalahari Desert learns how to survive on his own by hunting for food. With limited food sources, the young leopard has to be clever and patient. He misses a few chances to catch food, but he keeps trying. Eventually, he returns to find a meal left high in the trees, but getting to it won't be so easy. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Africa, a study of the landscape and wildlife of the world’s wildest continent, Africa.
Deserts look empty. They are anything but.
From the sun-scorched dunes of the Sahara to the scrubby plains of Australia, desert animals have cracked one of nature's toughest puzzles: how to survive where water is scarce, temperatures are brutal, and food is hard to find. In this playlist, you'll meet the remarkable species that call these landscapes home — from the iconic camel and the lightning-fast hawk to the bounding kangaroo and the armored pangolin.
Each clip, drawn from landmark BBC series including Seven Worlds, One Planet and Planet Earth II, puts you face-to-face with real desert survival in action. Some animals store water and energy for enormous journeys across open terrain. Others hunt by night, move in short bursts, or use camouflage so good they practically disappear. Every strategy is different. Every one is extraordinary.
As you watch, think bigger: How do animals adapt to temperatures that would stop most creatures in their tracks? What physical traits make desert life not just possible, but thriving? And how do these species — predator and prey, reptile and mammal — depend on each other to keep desert ecosystems in balance?
This playlist won't just teach you about deserts. It will make you see them differently.
In Hamsters in the City, narrator Sir David Attenborough highlights European hamsters searching for food in Vienna's parks and cemeteries. Their preferred snacks are flowers, with candle wax for dessert. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In The Game-Changing Invention of Refrigerated Transport, presenter Ruth Goodman visits Greenwich, England, to learn how the first refrigerated ships transported meat from New Zealand to England. Learn how an American inventor solved the problem of keeping food cold as it traveled over land. 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.
In Analyzing Convenience Foods, presenter Ruth Goodman explores the changes in United Kingdom cuisine when ready-made curries became available. Learn how microwave dinners changed the way British people ate, and how companies and home cooks worked together to make these meals delicious and authentic. 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.
Nom-nom-nom! Can you find the foody three-in-a-rows in the grid below? We've got sausages, watermelon slices, prawns, avocadoes, lettuces, mushrooms, cupcakes, strawberries, and more! Look across and down for these three-in-a-rows (psst, we’ve done the bananas for you).
In Pumpkin Pie Surprise, Febo makes an American pumpkin pie. The process involves boiling and pureeing pumpkin, rolling dough into a pie crust, and filling the crust with a yummy pumpkin filling. Will the other kids like his pie? This video is excerpted from BBC's My World Kitchen, where young chefs create special recipes that honor their heritage and celebrate their roots.
In The Crystal Clear Waters of Bonito, explore the many types of fish that swim in the crystal clear waters of Bonito, a region in Brazil. The fish can see the monkeys above, feeding on berries, and wait for them to accidentally drop them into the water. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In Reptiles and Water in the Desert, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how all wildlife makes the most of any opportunity to get water in the desert. The thorny devil sources water from eating ants but it can also dip its toe in puddles and collect moisture by capillary action. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In Cooking the Perfect Pot of Rice, presenter Cherry Healey visits a rice factory and learns that rice is a type of grass. She sees that white rice and brown rice are the same, they are just processed differently. And, she learns the trick to cooking the perfect pot of rice! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in factories that make our favorite products.
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.
In Bees and Food Production, a group gathers around the breakfast table to enjoy a breakfast made of food that isn’t impacted by bees. But, aside from a pot of tea and some toast, the table is bare. What foods do bees help us enjoy? Everything from fruit to dairy!
In A Leopard Hunts for Food in the Kalahari, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how a one-year-old African leopard in the Kalahari Desert learns how to survive on his own by hunting for food. With limited food sources, the young leopard has to be clever and patient. He misses a few chances to catch food, but he keeps trying. Eventually, he returns to find a meal left high in the trees, but getting to it won't be so easy. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Africa, a study of the landscape and wildlife of the world’s wildest continent, Africa.
Deserts look empty. They are anything but.
From the sun-scorched dunes of the Sahara to the scrubby plains of Australia, desert animals have cracked one of nature's toughest puzzles: how to survive where water is scarce, temperatures are brutal, and food is hard to find. In this playlist, you'll meet the remarkable species that call these landscapes home — from the iconic camel and the lightning-fast hawk to the bounding kangaroo and the armored pangolin.
Each clip, drawn from landmark BBC series including Seven Worlds, One Planet and Planet Earth II, puts you face-to-face with real desert survival in action. Some animals store water and energy for enormous journeys across open terrain. Others hunt by night, move in short bursts, or use camouflage so good they practically disappear. Every strategy is different. Every one is extraordinary.
As you watch, think bigger: How do animals adapt to temperatures that would stop most creatures in their tracks? What physical traits make desert life not just possible, but thriving? And how do these species — predator and prey, reptile and mammal — depend on each other to keep desert ecosystems in balance?
This playlist won't just teach you about deserts. It will make you see them differently.
In Hamsters in the City, narrator Sir David Attenborough highlights European hamsters searching for food in Vienna's parks and cemeteries. Their preferred snacks are flowers, with candle wax for dessert. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In The Game-Changing Invention of Refrigerated Transport, presenter Ruth Goodman visits Greenwich, England, to learn how the first refrigerated ships transported meat from New Zealand to England. Learn how an American inventor solved the problem of keeping food cold as it traveled over land. 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.
In Analyzing Convenience Foods, presenter Ruth Goodman explores the changes in United Kingdom cuisine when ready-made curries became available. Learn how microwave dinners changed the way British people ate, and how companies and home cooks worked together to make these meals delicious and authentic. 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.
Nom-nom-nom! Can you find the foody three-in-a-rows in the grid below? We've got sausages, watermelon slices, prawns, avocadoes, lettuces, mushrooms, cupcakes, strawberries, and more! Look across and down for these three-in-a-rows (psst, we’ve done the bananas for you).
In Pumpkin Pie Surprise, Febo makes an American pumpkin pie. The process involves boiling and pureeing pumpkin, rolling dough into a pie crust, and filling the crust with a yummy pumpkin filling. Will the other kids like his pie? This video is excerpted from BBC's My World Kitchen, where young chefs create special recipes that honor their heritage and celebrate their roots.
In The Crystal Clear Waters of Bonito, explore the many types of fish that swim in the crystal clear waters of Bonito, a region in Brazil. The fish can see the monkeys above, feeding on berries, and wait for them to accidentally drop them into the water. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In Reptiles and Water in the Desert, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how all wildlife makes the most of any opportunity to get water in the desert. The thorny devil sources water from eating ants but it can also dip its toe in puddles and collect moisture by capillary action. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In Cooking the Perfect Pot of Rice, presenter Cherry Healey visits a rice factory and learns that rice is a type of grass. She sees that white rice and brown rice are the same, they are just processed differently. And, she learns the trick to cooking the perfect pot of rice! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in factories that make our favorite products.