It's the holiday season! Grab a pal and play this fun game. Here's how:
1. This is a game for two players. Snip out the counters and presents. Place your counters at the start. Each player begins with five presents.
2. Take turns to roll a die and move around the board. If you land on a GIVE space, give the other player that many presents.
3. If you land on a GRAB space, the other player must give you that number of presents.
4. The game ends when both players cross the finish line. The winner is the player with the most presents!
In Should Esports Be an Olympic Sport?, some wonder if competitive gaming should join the Olympics, which could give it global recognition. While esports already has huge international competitions, the Olympic Committee isn’t interested in these games yet. But with esports growing fast and players making millions, some say it doesn’t even need the Olympics to succeed! 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.
Snip out these dominoes and grab a mate to play this fun matching game! Grab a grown-up and snip out along the dashed lines only. To play:
- Share the dominoes evenly with your grown-up or a friend. The first player puts any domino down on a table.
- The second player needs to try and put a domino next to it that matches one side of the other player's domino.
- If you don't have a matching domino, miss a turn. The first one to lay down all their dominoes is the winner!
In How Playing Table Tennis Boosts Your Brain Power, host Harith Iskander shows how this fast-paced game gives your brain a major workout. From making quick decisions to coordinating hand movements, table tennis engages different parts of the brain, including the motor cortex, cerebellum, and prefrontal cortex. As players react to the ball, plan their moves, and remember their opponent’s patterns, the hippocampus — the memory center of the brain — gets stronger. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.
In Billie Jean King's Fight for Equality, sports journalist Clare Balding talks to Billie Jean King about her influence on equality for women in sport. King put her career on the line when she accepted an offer to play against one of the world's top male tennis players, Bobby Riggs, and won. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.
In The Magic of Math on the Soccer Field, host Marcus du Sautoy tries to convince one math reject that math is present everywhere in the soccer game he loves — from quadratic equations on the pitch to the probability of a team winning. Du Sautoy makes the case that the soccer players are intuitive mathematical geniuses. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Horizon: Why Maths Doesn’t Add Up, where Marcus du Sautoy introduces the elegance and wonder of math to a “math reject,” traveling from the classroom to a four-dimensional world.
A new play about women’s football is celebrating the resilience of female players and tackling real-life issues in the storyline. The play is also putting on workshops to inspire the next generation of players and help them to consider the sport as a possible career. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
It's the holiday season! Grab a pal and play this fun game. Here's how:
1. This is a game for two players. Snip out the counters and presents. Place your counters at the start. Each player begins with five presents.
2. Take turns to roll a die and move around the board. If you land on a GIVE space, give the other player that many presents.
3. If you land on a GRAB space, the other player must give you that number of presents.
4. The game ends when both players cross the finish line. The winner is the player with the most presents!
In Should Esports Be an Olympic Sport?, some wonder if competitive gaming should join the Olympics, which could give it global recognition. While esports already has huge international competitions, the Olympic Committee isn’t interested in these games yet. But with esports growing fast and players making millions, some say it doesn’t even need the Olympics to succeed! 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.
Snip out these dominoes and grab a mate to play this fun matching game! Grab a grown-up and snip out along the dashed lines only. To play:
- Share the dominoes evenly with your grown-up or a friend. The first player puts any domino down on a table.
- The second player needs to try and put a domino next to it that matches one side of the other player's domino.
- If you don't have a matching domino, miss a turn. The first one to lay down all their dominoes is the winner!
In How Playing Table Tennis Boosts Your Brain Power, host Harith Iskander shows how this fast-paced game gives your brain a major workout. From making quick decisions to coordinating hand movements, table tennis engages different parts of the brain, including the motor cortex, cerebellum, and prefrontal cortex. As players react to the ball, plan their moves, and remember their opponent’s patterns, the hippocampus — the memory center of the brain — gets stronger. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.
In Billie Jean King's Fight for Equality, sports journalist Clare Balding talks to Billie Jean King about her influence on equality for women in sport. King put her career on the line when she accepted an offer to play against one of the world's top male tennis players, Bobby Riggs, and won. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century, a documentary series celebrating the achievements of the most influential figures of the era.
In The Magic of Math on the Soccer Field, host Marcus du Sautoy tries to convince one math reject that math is present everywhere in the soccer game he loves — from quadratic equations on the pitch to the probability of a team winning. Du Sautoy makes the case that the soccer players are intuitive mathematical geniuses. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Horizon: Why Maths Doesn’t Add Up, where Marcus du Sautoy introduces the elegance and wonder of math to a “math reject,” traveling from the classroom to a four-dimensional world.
A new play about women’s football is celebrating the resilience of female players and tackling real-life issues in the storyline. The play is also putting on workshops to inspire the next generation of players and help them to consider the sport as a possible career. This video is excerpted from BBC News.