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Though there are currently apps that show pollution data, that information is old and outdated.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.
Turn your classroom into a global exploration hub! This country report template invites students in Grades 3–8 to become curious investigators — uncovering what makes each country unique and sharing their discoveries in creative ways.
Designed with flexibility in mind, the resource includes two approachable formats:
- Snapshot Style: A lively, visual option that’s perfect for quick learning or younger students. Learners can sketch, label, and highlight key features — like flags, landmarks, foods, and traditions — while building confidence with short responses.
- Explorer Style: A more in-depth format for students ready to dig deeper. It guides learners through topics such as geography, wildlife, culture, and history, helping them organize ideas and develop clear, informative writing.
Best of all, this template pairs seamlessly with BBC videos — bringing countries to life through real-world sights, sounds, and stories. Students can watch, wonder, and then weave what they’ve learned into their own reports.
Quick Teacher Tips: Use country studies as a springboard into wider learning across subjects:
- Geography: Map skills, climate zones, landforms, and ecosystems
- Language Arts: Informational writing, summarizing, note-taking, and presenting
- History: Key events, timelines, and how the past shapes the present
- Math: Population comparisons, distances, currency conversions
- Arts & Culture: Traditional patterns, music, celebrations, and food
- Current Events: Tie in informational reading and media literacy by exploring what’s happening in that country today in an age-appropriate way.
This mini biography template is a flexible, engaging tool designed to help students in Grades 3–8 explore the lives of important historical figures. With sections like Best Known For, Important Life Events, Challenges and Obstacles, Memorable Quote, and Legacy and Achievements, students are guided to think beyond basic facts and develop a deeper understanding of a person’s impact.
This template can be used with any historical figure and pairs especially well with video-based research. Encourage students to explore our BBC video library to gather key details, hear stories in context, and build stronger connections to the people they’re studying.
Here are a few ways you can use this template in your classroom:
- Celebrate special months: Have students research and complete biographies for influential figures during observances like Women’s History Month or Black History Month.
- Scientist spotlights: Use the template to profile important scientists, inventors, or innovators throughout history.
- “Living museum” projects: Have students complete the template, then present their figure in a short first-person speech or display as part of a classroom museum exhibit.
This set of Martin Luther King Jr. worksheets contains two versions, so you can use the version that's closest to the grade level you teach or use both based on the individual reading levels of the students in your class. Here's what you'll find:
- Reading Passage: "Martin Luther King Jr.: A Man With a Dream," covering that life and legacy of MLK.
- Version A: Grades 3-5, Lexile Level 700-900L
- Version B: Grades 6-8, Lexile Level 850-1000L
- Glossary: Grade-level appropriate vocabulary and definitions to help students better understand the passage.
- Worksheets: KWL, timeline, and reflection (Version A); important events chart, Venn diagram, "Iconic Influences" response (Version B).
These activities pair with the following videos:
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!
Come along on a prehistoric adventure! When you share this Interactive Map with your students, they'll get kid-friendly directions for how to explore. They can click around the six different dig sites (each featuring one incredible dinosaur), where they'll watch a pair of videos and take a quiz. Make sure you've also printed copies of the Paleontologist Field Journal for them to record their findings. It's all part of our Walking With Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip!
To start, click on the link below. You'll be invited to make a copy of the Google Slides. You can save it to your Google Classroom and then share it with students so they can explore on their own. They'll want to be in Slideshow mode for this!
Get the Interactive Map
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.
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!
Not sure what to play? Let the chatterbox decide. Use this fun Bluey template to make your own. All you need is a pair of scissors and a bit of grown-up help. Once it's done, you start with the chatterbox closed. Ask someone their age. Count to that age out loud. As you say each number, open the chatterbox one way, then the other. Ask your partner to choose a color. Open the flap to see what you've got to do!
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.
Turn your classroom into a global exploration hub! This country report template invites students in Grades 3–8 to become curious investigators — uncovering what makes each country unique and sharing their discoveries in creative ways.
Designed with flexibility in mind, the resource includes two approachable formats:
- Snapshot Style: A lively, visual option that’s perfect for quick learning or younger students. Learners can sketch, label, and highlight key features — like flags, landmarks, foods, and traditions — while building confidence with short responses.
- Explorer Style: A more in-depth format for students ready to dig deeper. It guides learners through topics such as geography, wildlife, culture, and history, helping them organize ideas and develop clear, informative writing.
Best of all, this template pairs seamlessly with BBC videos — bringing countries to life through real-world sights, sounds, and stories. Students can watch, wonder, and then weave what they’ve learned into their own reports.
Quick Teacher Tips: Use country studies as a springboard into wider learning across subjects:
- Geography: Map skills, climate zones, landforms, and ecosystems
- Language Arts: Informational writing, summarizing, note-taking, and presenting
- History: Key events, timelines, and how the past shapes the present
- Math: Population comparisons, distances, currency conversions
- Arts & Culture: Traditional patterns, music, celebrations, and food
- Current Events: Tie in informational reading and media literacy by exploring what’s happening in that country today in an age-appropriate way.
This mini biography template is a flexible, engaging tool designed to help students in Grades 3–8 explore the lives of important historical figures. With sections like Best Known For, Important Life Events, Challenges and Obstacles, Memorable Quote, and Legacy and Achievements, students are guided to think beyond basic facts and develop a deeper understanding of a person’s impact.
This template can be used with any historical figure and pairs especially well with video-based research. Encourage students to explore our BBC video library to gather key details, hear stories in context, and build stronger connections to the people they’re studying.
Here are a few ways you can use this template in your classroom:
- Celebrate special months: Have students research and complete biographies for influential figures during observances like Women’s History Month or Black History Month.
- Scientist spotlights: Use the template to profile important scientists, inventors, or innovators throughout history.
- “Living museum” projects: Have students complete the template, then present their figure in a short first-person speech or display as part of a classroom museum exhibit.
This set of Martin Luther King Jr. worksheets contains two versions, so you can use the version that's closest to the grade level you teach or use both based on the individual reading levels of the students in your class. Here's what you'll find:
- Reading Passage: "Martin Luther King Jr.: A Man With a Dream," covering that life and legacy of MLK.
- Version A: Grades 3-5, Lexile Level 700-900L
- Version B: Grades 6-8, Lexile Level 850-1000L
- Glossary: Grade-level appropriate vocabulary and definitions to help students better understand the passage.
- Worksheets: KWL, timeline, and reflection (Version A); important events chart, Venn diagram, "Iconic Influences" response (Version B).
These activities pair with the following videos:
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!
Come along on a prehistoric adventure! When you share this Interactive Map with your students, they'll get kid-friendly directions for how to explore. They can click around the six different dig sites (each featuring one incredible dinosaur), where they'll watch a pair of videos and take a quiz. Make sure you've also printed copies of the Paleontologist Field Journal for them to record their findings. It's all part of our Walking With Dinosaurs Virtual Field Trip!
To start, click on the link below. You'll be invited to make a copy of the Google Slides. You can save it to your Google Classroom and then share it with students so they can explore on their own. They'll want to be in Slideshow mode for this!
Get the Interactive Map
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.
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!
Not sure what to play? Let the chatterbox decide. Use this fun Bluey template to make your own. All you need is a pair of scissors and a bit of grown-up help. Once it's done, you start with the chatterbox closed. Ask someone their age. Count to that age out loud. As you say each number, open the chatterbox one way, then the other. Ask your partner to choose a color. Open the flap to see what you've got to do!