Draw lines to join two letters and lead them to their pair. Find the matching letter tiles and say each sound too. Can you connect C to K?
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Two is shopping for dancing shoes. Let's meet a magical new friend. Two Times Table likes things that come in twos! Color to make pairs. When you count up in pairs, use the Two Times Table!
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
2 x 3 = 6
2 x 4 = 8
2 x 6 = 10
2 x 6 = 12
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In Pollinators and Plants, Nature’s Perfect Pair, narrator Sir David Attenborough explores the fascinating teamwork — and clever defenses — between plants and pollinators! Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed plants for laying eggs and gathering nectar, but the plant defends itself with a sap that challenges the caterpillars. Meanwhile, the Heliconia plant carefully rations nectar to keep the hummingbird returning, as only this bird’s uniquely shaped beak can pollinate it! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
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!
In Sarah and Duck and the Fireworks Dance, Sarah and Duck are playing indoors. When a fireworks display lights up the sky, Duck hides, until Sarah finds him and helps him enjoy the fireworks with a pair of earmuffs. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Sarah & Duck, a kids' show about the adventures of 7-year-old Sarah and her quacky, flappy best friend, Duck.
In Facing Off With a Triceratops, host Andy Day is in the Cretaceous period. He comes across a herd of Triceratops and notices pairs that are fighting. The Triceratops use their horns and crests to intimidate each other and sometimes fight. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy's Dinosaur Adventures, in which Andy Day travels back in time to meet the dinosaurs.
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!
Don’t you hate it when you’re late for work, but you just can’t find your bone and lunch bag of kibble? That may be the case for a group of dogs in Gulu, Northern Uganda, who work as therapy dogs, helping people with tough upbringings navigate their trauma and adjust to a happy life. To support a population that grew up in a war (and the unsafe conditions that came with it), a charity has paired them with dogs.
What’s better? The dogs benefit, too! We’re not talking about an end-of-the-week paycheck or big office parties, but something better: overdue love and affection. All the dogs are former street dogs, so they weren’t properly cared for, and these have helped more than 120 people and dogs find healing bonds with each other.
In Scarlet Macaws in Search of Salt, explore how a pair of scarlet macaws look after their chicks. They need salt, but are far from the ocean, so one of the parents flies to a clay lick and returns with clay to provide the salt for their chicks. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In An Orca Whale Hunt, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows a pair of orca, also known as killer whales, who are working together to attack a sea lion. This video is an excerpt from BBC’s Nature's Great Events, a documentary series that showcases some of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth, exploring how life adapts to natural events that can transform entire landscapes.
In Black Hole Coalescence, narrator Kate Yule details how a pair of black holes warp space and time when they coalesce. Learn how the energy is emitted as gravitational waves rather than light, and how Rainer Weiss was able to detect these waves through his detector 1.3 billion years later. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Competition on the Coral Reef, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how one predator-prey pair interact on the reef. Watch jack fish try to corral silversides who have their own defensive tactic. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Blue Planet, a definitive documentary series diving into the mysterious depths of the sea to discover the natural history of the world’s oceans and the rarely seen marine life that reside there.
Draw lines to join two letters and lead them to their pair. Find the matching letter tiles and say each sound too. Can you connect C to K?
Watch full episodes of Alphablocks on their official YouTube channel!
Two is shopping for dancing shoes. Let's meet a magical new friend. Two Times Table likes things that come in twos! Color to make pairs. When you count up in pairs, use the Two Times Table!
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
2 x 3 = 6
2 x 4 = 8
2 x 6 = 10
2 x 6 = 12
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
In Pollinators and Plants, Nature’s Perfect Pair, narrator Sir David Attenborough explores the fascinating teamwork — and clever defenses — between plants and pollinators! Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed plants for laying eggs and gathering nectar, but the plant defends itself with a sap that challenges the caterpillars. Meanwhile, the Heliconia plant carefully rations nectar to keep the hummingbird returning, as only this bird’s uniquely shaped beak can pollinate it! This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
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!
In Sarah and Duck and the Fireworks Dance, Sarah and Duck are playing indoors. When a fireworks display lights up the sky, Duck hides, until Sarah finds him and helps him enjoy the fireworks with a pair of earmuffs. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Sarah & Duck, a kids' show about the adventures of 7-year-old Sarah and her quacky, flappy best friend, Duck.
In Facing Off With a Triceratops, host Andy Day is in the Cretaceous period. He comes across a herd of Triceratops and notices pairs that are fighting. The Triceratops use their horns and crests to intimidate each other and sometimes fight. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Andy's Dinosaur Adventures, in which Andy Day travels back in time to meet the dinosaurs.
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!
Don’t you hate it when you’re late for work, but you just can’t find your bone and lunch bag of kibble? That may be the case for a group of dogs in Gulu, Northern Uganda, who work as therapy dogs, helping people with tough upbringings navigate their trauma and adjust to a happy life. To support a population that grew up in a war (and the unsafe conditions that came with it), a charity has paired them with dogs.
What’s better? The dogs benefit, too! We’re not talking about an end-of-the-week paycheck or big office parties, but something better: overdue love and affection. All the dogs are former street dogs, so they weren’t properly cared for, and these have helped more than 120 people and dogs find healing bonds with each other.
In Scarlet Macaws in Search of Salt, explore how a pair of scarlet macaws look after their chicks. They need salt, but are far from the ocean, so one of the parents flies to a clay lick and returns with clay to provide the salt for their chicks. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Seven Worlds, One Planet, a series featuring remarkable animal behavior from all seven continents.
In An Orca Whale Hunt, narrator Sir David Attenborough follows a pair of orca, also known as killer whales, who are working together to attack a sea lion. This video is an excerpt from BBC’s Nature's Great Events, a documentary series that showcases some of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth, exploring how life adapts to natural events that can transform entire landscapes.
In Black Hole Coalescence, narrator Kate Yule details how a pair of black holes warp space and time when they coalesce. Learn how the energy is emitted as gravitational waves rather than light, and how Rainer Weiss was able to detect these waves through his detector 1.3 billion years later. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In Competition on the Coral Reef, narrator Sir David Attenborough describes how one predator-prey pair interact on the reef. Watch jack fish try to corral silversides who have their own defensive tactic. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Blue Planet, a definitive documentary series diving into the mysterious depths of the sea to discover the natural history of the world’s oceans and the rarely seen marine life that reside there.