Six is here to let you know what a pattern really is. Can anything be a pattern? Not exactly. You can't just take a bunch of stuff, a random order's not enough. A pattern has a rule that checks with every step what happens next. If every step, the rule's the same, you've found the pattern, that's the game.
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Look closely and color the same pattern that is on the die. Color three party hats to show a three pattern, four balloons to show a four pattern, and five stars to show a five pattern. Then, see if you can figure out the trickier cupcake pattern!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
The Numberblocks have reached Pattern Palance. Use the shape color key to help you finish the picture. What patterns do you notice?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Snip, sort, and stick! Cut out these bright rainbow blocks and arrange them into any design you like. Can you make stripes, zigzags, or even a rainbow mosaic? It’s a hands-on way to explore colors, patterns, and creativity that is perfect for at-home fun or a classroom challenge!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
To reach the golden double six, it will take some special tricks! You'll need to build the paths and so, go, go, domino! Cut out the dominoes and pick the right ones to finish building the paths. Where will you put the golden double six?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
E and Magic E make a sound like EE and EA. Look at what they can do together! Add your E and Magic E tile to make some pals for Eve! Now see if you can read this: Eve can see what is for tea! Bits of tree and a fat green pea!
Watch full episodes of Alphablocks on their official YouTube channel!
The article "How Social Jetlag Is Depriving Teens of Vital Sleep" from BBC's Science Focus explains how sleep needs and patterns change during adolescence, leading to social jetlag. This shift has many consequences, including an association with obesity and depression, but there are also recommendations for managing sleep schedules.
In Wildfires: A Growing Threat, host Radzi Chinyanganya highlights the devastating impact of wildfires around the globe, with a focus on Australia. The segment provides an in-depth look at the causes, local impact, and the global spread of wildfires, highlighting how changes in weather patterns, human activity, and environmental factors are exacerbating this crisis. The episode also covers how the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) contributes to the conditions that make wildfires more likely in regions like Australia. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
In The Heart and Lungs of the World, host Radzi Chinyanganya explains how the Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in regulating the Earth's climate by recycling water from the trees into the atmosphere. The Amazon takes in and pumps out water, which creates moisture that forms clouds and produces rain. With 400 billion trees cycling water, this process significantly influences global weather patterns, including rainfall in regions far from the rainforest itself, such as the United States’ Midwest. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
Feeling stressed? Try reading this out loud!
Researchers have found that reading together can help strengthen bonds and reduce stress. In a recent study, families were asked to read together while wearing a brain monitoring cap that tracks activity over time. The results suggested that moments of shared reading can sync brain patterns between two people, which then suggest that the experience of reading books together helps parents and children connect.
Furthermore, the importance of stories themselves can’t be ignored. Stories are how people explain the world and their lives to one another — the decisions you make and the person you become are partially influenced by the stories you’ve read or heard. The research is very new, but studies of this sort can help us understand why reading together builds empathy, focus, emotional well-being, and might support children’s development and encourage a lifelong love of reading. And not just because a good story might distract two siblings for long enough to stop flicking each other’s ears!
Nanolitho... Nanilitha... Hmm. Ahem. Nanolithography is the process of fabricating, etching, or printing patterns on a material’s surface at the nanometer (one billionth of a meter) scale. It’s OK, we had to look it up, too.
It’s probably not a word you hear in everyday life, but you’re likely familiar with some of the results. You’re probably reading this on one of those results, because it’s a prominent part of building phones and computers — both things that rely on technology that allows manufacturers to pattern incredibly small things. The process is similar to screen printing, where you create a stencil of your design, lay your screen onto your material, pour on the paint, and lift your screen to reveal the design. Nanolithography uses a similar method, but on a much, much, much smaller scale. Way smaller stuff than you’d ever get your pencil sharp enough to sketch!
For example, scientists have created the world’s smallest violin at 13 microns wide and 40 microns tall. To put it in perspective, a micron is 0.000001 m, and one single human hair is between 15 and 120 microns. So you probably can’t play the violin, but it’d be really easy to pack in your bag.
Aside from being cool, learning how to work with material at this teeny tiny scale can open up new possibilities in technology, and is crucial for making improvements.
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.
Six is here to let you know what a pattern really is. Can anything be a pattern? Not exactly. You can't just take a bunch of stuff, a random order's not enough. A pattern has a rule that checks with every step what happens next. If every step, the rule's the same, you've found the pattern, that's the game.
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Look closely and color the same pattern that is on the die. Color three party hats to show a three pattern, four balloons to show a four pattern, and five stars to show a five pattern. Then, see if you can figure out the trickier cupcake pattern!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
The Numberblocks have reached Pattern Palance. Use the shape color key to help you finish the picture. What patterns do you notice?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Snip, sort, and stick! Cut out these bright rainbow blocks and arrange them into any design you like. Can you make stripes, zigzags, or even a rainbow mosaic? It’s a hands-on way to explore colors, patterns, and creativity that is perfect for at-home fun or a classroom challenge!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
To reach the golden double six, it will take some special tricks! You'll need to build the paths and so, go, go, domino! Cut out the dominoes and pick the right ones to finish building the paths. Where will you put the golden double six?
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
E and Magic E make a sound like EE and EA. Look at what they can do together! Add your E and Magic E tile to make some pals for Eve! Now see if you can read this: Eve can see what is for tea! Bits of tree and a fat green pea!
Watch full episodes of Alphablocks on their official YouTube channel!
The article "How Social Jetlag Is Depriving Teens of Vital Sleep" from BBC's Science Focus explains how sleep needs and patterns change during adolescence, leading to social jetlag. This shift has many consequences, including an association with obesity and depression, but there are also recommendations for managing sleep schedules.
In Wildfires: A Growing Threat, host Radzi Chinyanganya highlights the devastating impact of wildfires around the globe, with a focus on Australia. The segment provides an in-depth look at the causes, local impact, and the global spread of wildfires, highlighting how changes in weather patterns, human activity, and environmental factors are exacerbating this crisis. The episode also covers how the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) contributes to the conditions that make wildfires more likely in regions like Australia. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
In The Heart and Lungs of the World, host Radzi Chinyanganya explains how the Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in regulating the Earth's climate by recycling water from the trees into the atmosphere. The Amazon takes in and pumps out water, which creates moisture that forms clouds and produces rain. With 400 billion trees cycling water, this process significantly influences global weather patterns, including rainfall in regions far from the rainforest itself, such as the United States’ Midwest. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
Feeling stressed? Try reading this out loud!
Researchers have found that reading together can help strengthen bonds and reduce stress. In a recent study, families were asked to read together while wearing a brain monitoring cap that tracks activity over time. The results suggested that moments of shared reading can sync brain patterns between two people, which then suggest that the experience of reading books together helps parents and children connect.
Furthermore, the importance of stories themselves can’t be ignored. Stories are how people explain the world and their lives to one another — the decisions you make and the person you become are partially influenced by the stories you’ve read or heard. The research is very new, but studies of this sort can help us understand why reading together builds empathy, focus, emotional well-being, and might support children’s development and encourage a lifelong love of reading. And not just because a good story might distract two siblings for long enough to stop flicking each other’s ears!
Nanolitho... Nanilitha... Hmm. Ahem. Nanolithography is the process of fabricating, etching, or printing patterns on a material’s surface at the nanometer (one billionth of a meter) scale. It’s OK, we had to look it up, too.
It’s probably not a word you hear in everyday life, but you’re likely familiar with some of the results. You’re probably reading this on one of those results, because it’s a prominent part of building phones and computers — both things that rely on technology that allows manufacturers to pattern incredibly small things. The process is similar to screen printing, where you create a stencil of your design, lay your screen onto your material, pour on the paint, and lift your screen to reveal the design. Nanolithography uses a similar method, but on a much, much, much smaller scale. Way smaller stuff than you’d ever get your pencil sharp enough to sketch!
For example, scientists have created the world’s smallest violin at 13 microns wide and 40 microns tall. To put it in perspective, a micron is 0.000001 m, and one single human hair is between 15 and 120 microns. So you probably can’t play the violin, but it’d be really easy to pack in your bag.
Aside from being cool, learning how to work with material at this teeny tiny scale can open up new possibilities in technology, and is crucial for making improvements.
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.