Enjoy indoor and outdoor science experiments and activities with our awesome autumn bundle of three Whizz Pop Bang back issues – ideal for simple hands-on activities and family fun, whatever the weather!
Issue 26 – SUPER SEEDS: Cracking open the secrets of how plants spread
In this issue, we’re looking at seed dispersal – imagine being fired away from your parents in a green slimy liquid! Yes, seeds have all sorts of weird and wonderful ways of getting away from their parent plants. Inside this magazine, you can try modelling dandelion seeds, making your own pinecone bird feeders and experimenting with a sycamore seed heli-spinner. Find out about the history of the invention of Velcro, which was inspired by nature's own burs and take a peek inside a top-secret seed bank buried deep inside an arctic mountain.
Issue 75 – TREMENDOUS TREES - A forest full of fun
Yay! It’s the tree-mendous 75th edition of Whizz Pop Bang! There’s a forest full of fun inside this issue – find out how trees communicate with each other, craft a springy woodpecker toy, make a twisty family tree ornament using leftover brown paper and cut out a handy pocket tree guide! Discover all sorts of weird and wonderful trees with thorny trunks, rainbow-hued bark, exploding fruit and more! Meet Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement, and read an interview with an arborist who uses expert tree knowledge to maintain and preserve trees. You can also find out how cherry pickers work, make a pinecone weather station and learn about awesome orangutans!
Issue 88 - STARRY SKIES - Gaze into outer space
Inside this issue you’ll find out why stargazing is a glance into the past, why stars twinkle and how they form. You’ll get to peek inside a telescope to discover how they help us to see distant objects, meet the ground-breaking astronomer Edwin Hubble and find out how Katie Bouman helped capture the first ever image of a black hole! You can get busy making model constellations, cutting out a star map to go on a stargazing adventure and baking some constellation cookies! Solve intergalactic space puzzles, meet brilliant badgers, discover ten out-of-this-world wonders and make a constellation torch. You can even recycle materials to create light-up decorations that would be perfect for Halloween!
Tagged in: Outdoor experiments, Space, Stars and Planets, Colour & Light, Plants, Environment
