The HOILDAY SCIENCE bundle is packed full of fun facts, interesting experiments and makes, puzzles, jokes and much more to keep you busy over the summer holidays.
Join us on a virtual MOON mission this issue! Find out all about its craters, ‘seas’, gravity and rocks. Make model Moon craters, build a Moon phase board, meet an astronaut hoping to travel to the Moon and peek inside a lunar rover. There’s even a pullout double-sided Moon map poster for your bedroom wall! Find out about a creature that can survive at -40°C and travel for 12 hours a day – say hello to howling wolves! Puzzle over some ‘cheesy’ Moon myths that people have invented over thousands of years, knot a drinks bottle carrier, discover ten awesomely amazing moons of our solar system and find out about the discoveries made by Galileo Galilei that earned him the nickname, ‘The father of modern science’.
Will the dream of a bedroom-tidying robot become a reality? Join us on a ROBOT revolution to discover how robots are already helping with thousands of jobs all over the world! You can construct a scribbling DoodleBot, create your own robot coding game, engineer a robotic arm and cut out and make a springy-armed version of our favourite robot Y! You can also fill in the blanks to make your own rib-tickling, ridiculous robot tale, find out all about geckos’ extraordinarily sticky feet and how they inspired climbing robots, peek inside a driverless car to discover the incredible robotic tech inside it, find out about Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician whose inventions formed the basis of early computer science, discover ten awesomely amazing robot animals and meet a space robot designer whose work includes a robotic arm for the ISS!
In this mega edition of Whizz Pop Bang, we’re looking at some of the most awesome creatures ever to have set foot on this planet – discover GIGANTIC DINOSAURS that were taller than houses, humungous flying reptiles that ruled the skies and petrifying prehistoric predators that patrolled the seas! There are loads of dino activities for you to try at home – craft a balancing stegosaurus, create your own eco-friendly fossil dig kits and cut out an incredible T. rex optical illusion that seems to be watching your every move! You can also cast a replica dinosaur tooth, cut out and make roar-some paper dinosaurs that walk down slopes and discover the biggest dinosaur ever known. Find out how animatronic dinosaurs work, meet a palaeontologist who solves the mysteries of how dinosaurs lived and read about William Buckland and Mary Morland, who studied the first dinosaur fossils.
Tagged in: Adaptation & Evolution, Fossils, Archaeology and Dinosaurs, Engineering, Indoor experiments, Space, Stars and Planets, Materials, Historical topics
