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Whizz Pop Bang’s January Sale!

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Looking for a Whizz Pop Bang discount code? We’re kicking off 2025 with an epic deal you can use to save 33% on back issues and three-issue bundles of back issues in the Whizz Pop Bang shop!

Use the code BONANZA25 at the checkout to claim your discount.*

➡️ All back issues just £4 each!
➡️ Three-issue bundles just £10!
Prices include FREE UK p&p!

Discover our treasure trove of back issues! Every edition is crammed with captivating articles, hands-on experiments, and inspiring stories that will spark your child’s curiosity and passion for science.

Whether the children in your life love… 
🦕 dinosaurs
🍰 experimenting in the kitchen
🏗️ building and engineering
🐾 animals or
🧪 anything to do with science
there’s something for everyone in our back catalogue.

Browse 75 Inspiring Back Issues In The Shop

Simply select your child’s current passion or this term’s school topic from the list of three-issue bundles available in our shop…

🦕 Dino Discovery Bundle – giant dinos, flying beasts and the age of extinction!
🧠 Human Body Bundle – terrific teeth, brilliant brains and the wonder of medicine
💥 Explosive Science Bundle – fire, explosions and active Earth
🐥 Animal Antics Bundle – insects, babies and the wildlife-packed jungle
⚙️ History Bundle – the Victorian era, Ancient Greece and the Stone Age
🚀 Space Exploration Bundle – travel into space and investigate the Moon and Mars!
🤖 Engineering Bundle – play park science, historical engineers and rocking robots!

If you’ve wanted to try Whizz Pop Bang for a while, then this is the perfect time. Using the Whizz Pop Bang promo code BONANZA25 means you’ll get three issues for just £10 with FREE UK delivery – that’s just £3.33 per issue!

Browse Three-Issue Bundles In The Shop

* Offer valid until midnight on 31.01.25 on Whizz Pop Bang individual back issues and bundles of three back issues purchased using the coupon code BONANZA25. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer.

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Whizz Pop Bang 114: UNDERGROUND ADVENTURES – Kit List!

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Oops – in all the Christmas rush, we didn’t manage to send this list to our subscribers. We’re so sorry and will do everything we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

You can find Whizz Pop Bang: Underground Adventures in our shop!

Here’s a list of things you’ll need to complete the science activities in this edition. We haven’t included basic items such as scissors, paper etc.

MAKE A CAVE (page 7)
A clean plastic bottle (a 1 litre drinks bottle is ideal)
A piece of aluminium foil
A rubber band
A cocktail stick or small nail
Modelling clay
Some sand (around 750 g)
Caster sugar

GROW YOUR OWN STALACTITES AND STALAGMITES (page 9)
Two glass jam jars
A saucer
Wool or string
Bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, washing soda or Epsom salts

MAKE EGGSHELL GEODES (page 11)
Eggs and an egg box
A paintbrush
Salt (table salt, Epsom salts or alum) or sugar
Food colouring
Newspaper

SEED BOMBS (page 16 & 21)
An egg cup
Wildflower seed mix
Compost
Flour
A plate

SETTLING SOIL (page 23)
Two glass jars with lids
Soil
Two sticky labels

⬇️ Here’s a kit list you can print out ⬇️

WPB114 printable kit listDownload

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Skydiving WITHOUT A Parachute?!

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Here’s a record-breaking journey that needs to be seen to be believed!

In 2016, Luke Aikins set a record for skydiving 7,6000 metres without a parachute! While travelling at 193 km/h, he steered his way to a safe landing on a bouncy net.

Watch Luke’s record-breaking fall here:

Here’s a record you can try and beat at home – find out how to fold the best paper aeroplane in the world here!

Find out more about awesomely amazing record-breaking journeys in Whizz Pop Bang 113: FESTIVE SCIENCE FUN!


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Make a record-breaking paper aeroplane!

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Here’s a record you CAN try to beat at home. The farthest flight by a paper aeroplane made from a single sheet of A4 paper is 88.31 metres! Find out how to make another record-breaking plane here:

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to skydive without a parachute?! Head this way for the answer (and to watch a jaw-dropping video all about it!)

Find out about more amazing record-breaking journeys in Whizz Pop Bang 113: FESTIVE SCIENCE FUN!


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COMPETITION CLOSED – WIN The Science Museum Puzzle Book: Journey Into Space!

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Here’s your chance to win one of ten copies of The Science Museum Puzzle Book: Journey Into Space. Keep reading to tackle some of the intergalactic puzzles featured inside!

Plan a mission, train to be an astronaut, launch a rocket and discover what it’s like to live in space as you tackle the teasers in this brilliant puzzle book!

As well as over 100 space-themed puzzles, this book is stuffed with essential space facts and profiles of significant people and moments linked to space exploration.

Put your brain to the test with these puzzles, taken from Journey Into Space: A Science Museum Puzzle Book. You’ll find the competition below these puzzles.

Click here to find the answer.

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We’ve got ten copies of this book to give away! Simply answer the question in the comments to be in with a chance.

Which person has travelled into space?

A Helen Sharman
B Galileo Galilei
C Arthur C. Clarke

The Science Museum Puzzle Book: Journey Into Space by The Science Museum is published by Seven Dials available in trade paperback and eBook on 7th November 2024. RRP £14.99.

This competition closes at midnight on 30th November 2024 and is open to UK residents only. Whizz Pop Bang competition terms and conditions are here.


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Teaching the Vikings

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Are you looking for inspiring planning resources for teaching about Vikings in upper key stage 2? Here’s how you can use our new downloadable Vikings teaching resources to easily create a memorable lesson…

Where to start?

Before you use the lesson pack, pupils should already know when the Viking period was, and be aware of how they lived. This lesson pack links with history and science, particularly with the topic ‘Properties and changes of materials’.

Pupils will carry out a simple investigation to see what affects how well an oil lamp burns. This lesson involves making an oil lamp, which means using fire! We have checked the primary CLEAPS guidance and have given you some tips for your risk assessment. However, you will need to review it and make any alterations for your class. Pupils will plan their own investigation to answer one of three questions, which are included in the PowerPoint presentation, along with simple instructions to make the oil lamp.

Oil lamp lesson pack

The downloadable pack includes:

  • A differentiated lesson plan
  • A PowerPoint presentation
  • A suggested risk assessment
  • Vikings silly science puzzle
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Quality reading texts related to the Vikings

We have a whole issue dedicated to the Vikings, which is full of fun facts and information suitable for primary-aged children. Our teachers have created two reading resources with questions linked to the National Curriculum and Curriculum for Excellence:

Whizz Pop Bang magazine and teaching resources are brilliant ways to enhance your school’s science teaching:

  • We provide downloadable science lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, hands-on investigations and science reading comprehensions written by primary school teachers.
  • Whizz Pop Bang teaching resources link to the National Curriculum, ensuring correct coverage.
  • All of our resources are year group specific, ensuring progression between the years.
  • We make cross-curricular links to other subjects, such as English, Maths, History, Geography, Art, Design and Technology and PSHE.

Prices from as little as £254.99 per year for a copy of Whizz Pop Bang magazine through the post each month and whole-school access to our ever-growing library of downloadable teaching resources, with unlimited teacher logins.

We’ve also launched a new individual membership option so teachers and home educators can access all of our amazing downloadable resources for just £20 for the whole year. 


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British Science Week FREE resources

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Are you looking for some interesting resources on the theme of ‘Time’ for British Science Week? Whizz Pop Bang has produced a whole magazine called ‘Time Quest’.

Our teachers have created a STEAM-based lesson pack ready for you to use. Download it for FREE!

English curriculum sand timer lesson packDownload

There are also reading resources ready for you to use for FREE!

All other curricula Cuckoo clocks reading resourcesDownload
All other curricula Ten ancient living things reading resourceDownload
English curriculum periodical cicadas reading resourceDownload

We have thousands more resources available on our website.


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Teaching thermal conductivity in year 5

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Are you teaching the topic properties and changes of materials to year 5? One of the objectives is teaching thermal conductivity; continue reading for two great science investigations…

Save the ice cubes!

This lesson pack contains an investigation in which pupils try to stop ice cubes melting by wrapping them in different materials. It’s like giving the ice cubes their own little winter jackets! The PowerPoint presentation explains how items stay warm or cold. Pupils are expected to design their own comparative test, with some guidance given in the PowerPoint presentation. They should decide how to record their results and write their own conclusions.

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Blubber glove

In this lesson, pupils will be able to feel the difference with their hands. This hands-on approach encourages students to actively participate in their learning, transforming them from passive observers to enthusiastic explorers. They will find out how animals stay warm in cold conditions by creating a blubber glove using different materials to see which is the best insulator. They will try to make it a fair test by using a thermometer to make sure the icy water stays a similar temperature during their investigation.

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It can be a tricky topic to teach as pupils often find it hard to understand that an item can stay warm and cold. Issue 102 ‘BRRRRR! The science of keeping warm’ is the perfect companion for your book corner whilst teaching this topic.

How to get more science into your reading sessions

Using science texts in guided reading or whole-class reading sessions is an easy way for children to delve further into the subject matter and acquire more knowledge. Here are the reading resources that link with this topic:

Whizz Pop Bang magazine and teaching resources are brilliant for enhancing your school’s science teaching:

  • We provide downloadable science lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, hands-on investigations and science reading resources written by primary school teachers.
  • Whizz Pop Bang teaching resources link to the National Curriculum, ensuring correct coverage.
  • All of our resources are year group specific, ensuring progression between the years.
  • We make cross-curricular links to other subjects, such as English, Maths, History, Geography, Art, Design and Technology and PSHE.

Prices from as little as £254.99 per year for a copy of Whizz Pop Bang magazine through the post each month and whole-school access to our ever-growing library of downloadable teaching resources, with unlimited teacher logins.

We also have individual membership option so teachers and home educators can access all of our amazing downloadable resources for just £20 for the whole year.


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How does huddling help penguins stay warm?

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Many animals, including walruses, penguins and monkeys, huddle in groups to keep warm. The centre of a huddle of Emperor penguins can reach 24℃ when the air temperature is as low as -40℃!

Watch a video about how huddling works here!


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Exciting news: Dive into dynamic discussions with our new reading resources!

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Fantastic news! We’ve just added a game-changing feature to our reading resources: Discussion questions! Starting from issue 99, our teachers have crafted engaging questions to accompany our non-fiction texts, designed for whole-class or paired discussions in response to the new reading framework.

What’s in it for you?

Imagine your pupils not just reading, but actively discussing high-quality science content. These questions go beyond comprehension – they spark curiosity, encourage collaboration and fuel a passion for science exploration.

Why you’ll love it:

  • Engagement boost: Turn reading into an adventure as students eagerly discuss scientific wonders.
  • Reading miles: Every discussion is a step towards accumulating valuable “reading miles”.

Get access to a world of resources:

Ready to elevate your reading sessions? Customize a school package or subscribe as an individual teacher. Gain access to 1,600+ science resources aligned with the National Curriculum and Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

Don’t miss out – start the adventure today!

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