This bundle is packed full of incredible facts about animals and their habitat.
JUMPING JUNGLES (Issue 37) - Lace up your hiking boots and get ready to venture through the luscious, leafy pages of Issue 37 to unearth tropical puzzles galore, games to play with friends, a grow-your-own-jungle activity and even a miniature cloud-making experiment, find out about Jane Goodall, who lived amongst chimpanzees in the jungle and showed everyone the importance of protecting animals and their habitats.
INCREDIBLE INSECTS (Issue 72) - learn all about their life cycles and habitats and how we can try to protect these animals so vital to our planet. There are also lots of ideas about how to make insect collectors to investigate the bugs in your own backyard! You can get busy making fluttering paper butterflies, flapping moths and cuddly sock insects. Plus, take our Silly Science quiz to find out if you’re a bee-rilliant bee, a plucky pond skater or something else entirely! You can also meet a dung beetle expert, take a close-up look at ants, discover the science of how simple cogs can control power in an article about how bike gears work, and find out about terrific termite expert Margaret S. Collins.
BOUNCING BABIES (Issue 81) - Crawl into the often weird and wonderful life of babies… from baby animals that are born being able to walk, to babies that spend time developing in eggs inside their dads’ mouths! There are also lots of activities to try: extract the fat from cows’ milk to make butter, craft a bouncing baby bunny, investigate the strength of eggs and build your own bird’s nest!You can also find out how ultrasound scanners allow us to peek at unborn babies, try our Silly Science puzzle of matching youngsters to their animal parents, get hopping with kangaroos and marvel at a spinning optical illusion. You’ll discover some of the strangest pregnancies in the animal kingdom (including a toad that keeps its eggs under its skin!), you can recycle a bottle to make an awesome Easter basket, hang out with Dr Yenny Saraswati and some orphaned orangutans and meet Rosalind Franklin who helped uncover the structure of DNA.
Tagged in: Environment, Outdoor experiments, Adaptation & Evolution, Minibeasts, Human body, Pets
