Thorny Devil | Deadly Top 10

Thorny Devil | Deadly Top 10

Animal adaptations | CBBC | 2012 | 2'14''

Steve documents a scorching desert dwelling devil and how it adapts to its dry and hot surroundings.

05: The World’s Weather | Landmarks

05: The World’s Weather | Landmarks

Animal adaptations | CBBC | 1994 | 19'03''

A look at the huge variety of climates in the world and the methods that animals, plants and people use to survive in these extremes.

05: Astronaut Training! | Maddie, Space and You

05: Astronaut Training! | Maddie, Space and You

Earth and Space | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'10''

Join Maddie as she finds out about the exciting things people do to train to become an astronaut. Maddie tries on a real spac...

04: Space Robots | Maddie, Space and You

04: Space Robots | Maddie, Space and You

Earth and Space | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'11''

Join Maddie as she finds out how the robots astronauts use in space have helped us to create robots we use here on Earth. Maddie vis...

03: International Space Station | Maddie, Space and You

03: International Space Station | Maddie, Space and You

Earth and Space | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'06''

Join Maddie as she discovers that astronauts live in space on a spacecraft called the International Space Station. Th...

02: Solar System | Maddie, Space and You

02: Solar System | Maddie, Space and You

Earth and Space | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'09''

Maddie takes us on a journey into space to explore planets, astronauts and rockets.

01: Rockets | Maddie, Space and You

01: Rockets | Maddie, Space and You

Earth and Space | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'07''

Join Maddie as she finds out how space rockets work and how they take astronauts into space. We discover how thrust and rocket fuel work ...

Don’t Panic About Puberty | Operation Ouch!

Don’t Panic About Puberty | Operation Ouch!

Animals Including Humans | CBBC | 2016 | 28'10''

In this special episode, Dr Chris and Dr Xand take a look at what happens to your body, and why, when you reach puberty.

Living with the cold: competition for land | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Living with the cold: competition for land | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Cold environments | BBC Two | 2011 | 5'50''

How humans and wildlife vie for limited habitable space in icy environments.

Life In The Snow

Life In The Snow

Biodiversity and human impact | BBC One | 2016 | 57'46''

Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature's winter wonderlands, from the polar bear mother helping her cubs to the owl searching for food.

15: Forces and Motion Special | Horrible Science

15: Forces and Motion Special | Horrible Science

Forces | CBBC | 2025 | 25'20''

A weird and wonderful look at how gravity, magnetism and friction impact everything. With Fred Sirieix.

14: Working Scientifically Special | Horrible Science

14: Working Scientifically Special | Horrible Science

Primary Science | CBBC | 2025 | 25'50''

A special guide to working scientifically, whether that involves drinking black vomit, measuring people's farts, or fir...

13: Earth and Space Special | Horrible Science

13: Earth and Space Special | Horrible Science

Primary Science | CBBC | 2025 | 25'06''

Rapping science teacher Matt Green becomes the first human being ever to visit Quark when he joins Pipette on her home planet ...

12: Sizzling Monks, Algorithms and Weather Frogs | Horrible Science

12: Sizzling Monks, Algorithms and Weather Frogs | Horrible Science

Electricity primary | CBBC | 2025 | 25'53''

Dr Big Brain has an electrical short circuit, Marie Curie is wowed by a rocket man, some of the great wom...

11: Dragon’s Blood, Rude Flowers and Wibbly Wobbly Gravity | Horrible Science

11: Dragon’s Blood, Rude Flowers and Wibbly Wobbly Gravity | Horrible Science

Primary Science | CBBC | 2025 | 25'36''

Big Brain has a chemical catastrophe, Sir Isaac Newton rides a coaster again, with shocki...

10: Real Mutants, Volcanoes and Drinking Vomit | Horrible Science

10: Real Mutants, Volcanoes and Drinking Vomit | Horrible Science

Primary Science | CBBC | 2025 | 25'28''

The Real Mutants assemble, people are drinking vomit and electrocuting themselves for science, and the eart...

09: Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken | Horrible Science

09: Space Vomit, Pet Mushrooms and Death by Chicken | Horrible Science

Primary Science | CBBC | 2025 | 25'34''

Revolting space travel, evolving cows, pet mushrooms, and Einstein watches a car on a trampoline.

08: A Meteor for the Dinosaurs, Binary Bangers and Perilous Plants | Horrible Science

08: A Meteor for the Dinosaurs, Binary Bangers and Perilous Plants | Horrible Science

Primary Science | CBBC | 2025 | 25'02''

Fred Sirieix stars in Scientific First Dates, Marie Curie reacts to space, and the dino...

07: Fartenheimer, the Water Cycle and 206 Bones | Horrible Science

07: Fartenheimer, the Water Cycle and 206 Bones | Horrible Science

Animals Including Humans | CBBC | 2025 | 25'40''

Science goes too far in Fartenheimer, music goes too far in Heads, Shoulders, Knees, Toes and All the othe...

06: Dinosaur Traitors, a Grumpy Moon and a Big Bang | Horrible Science

06: Dinosaur Traitors, a Grumpy Moon and a Big Bang | Horrible Science

Primary Science | CBBC | 2025 | 25'40''

An episode featuring everything from the creation of the number zero to the beginnings of the whole un...

05: The Force Force, Lever Man and the Goldilocks Zone | Horrible Science

05: The Force Force, Lever Man and the Goldilocks Zone | Horrible Science

Forces | CBBC | 2025 | 25'29''

Meet superheroes the Force Force, and some of the 17th century’s greatest minds star in Friends par...

04: Manky Materials and Shifty States Special | Horrible Science

04: Manky Materials and Shifty States Special | Horrible Science

Materials | CBBC | 2025 | 25'50''

Guy Mowbray narrates Elemental Gladiators, Judge Rinder has a science beef, and someone tries to steal the e...

03: Mary Ploppins, Magnets and Sorting Your Bits Out | Horrible Science

03: Mary Ploppins, Magnets and Sorting Your Bits Out | Horrible Science

Animals Including Humans | CBBC | 2025 | 25'26''

Mary Ploppins soothes those digestive ills, Dr Big Brain tries banana power, and Einstein reacts to T...

02: Light, Sound and Electricity Special | Horrible Science

02: Light, Sound and Electricity Special | Horrible Science

Light | CBBC | 2025 | 25'43''

Big Danny and Big Manny find science shocking, Da Vinci does a sound experiment, Newton rides again, Queen Vic sh...

01: Gravity the Musical, a T-rex and Vampires on Holiday | Horrible Science

01: Gravity the Musical, a T-rex and Vampires on Holiday | Horrible Science

Forces | CBBC | 2025 | 25'03''

A totally wicked song about gravity, a T-rex going to see a doctor, vampires on holiday, and Sir ...

Seasons | Get Set Galactic

Seasons | Get Set Galactic

Earth and Space | CBeebies | 2024 | 1'29''

Learn about the seasons with a helpful graphic of the earths tilt and its orbit and hemispheres.

00: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!

00: Goes Back in Time | Operation Ouch!

Animals Including Humans | CBBC | 2014 | 28'31''

Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner wh...

S01E05: The Trees | Maddie, the Plants and You

S01E05: The Trees | Maddie, the Plants and You

Plants | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'16''

Join Maddie on an adventure around the world of trees to see how we can help look after them and our planet. Discover how tree...

S01E04: The Plants We Eat | Maddie, the Plants and You

S01E04: The Plants We Eat | Maddie, the Plants and You

Plants | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'16''

Join Maddie as she finds out how many plants give us food we can eat and how we can help to look after them and our pl...

S01E03: The Plants We Use | Maddie, the Plants and You

S01E03: The Plants We Use | Maddie, the Plants and You

Plants | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'03''

Join Maddie to discover the plants that we use in our everyday lives and how we can help to look after them and our pl...

S01E02: The Plants Around the World | Maddie, the Plants and You

S01E02: The Plants Around the World | Maddie, the Plants and You

Plants | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'12''

Join Maddie on a journey of discovery to find out about plants around the world. Find out how we can help to...

S01E01: The Flowers | Maddie, the Plants and You

S01E01: The Flowers | Maddie, the Plants and You

Plants | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'08''

Join Maddie on an adventure around the world of flowers to see how we can help to look after them and our planet.

S02E03: Ice | Fierce Earth

S02E03: Ice | Fierce Earth

Primary Geography | CBBC | 2014 | 28'17''

Clare, Dougal, Leo and Mike discover the secrets of ice. On a bobsleigh track in the Swiss Alps, Leo learns about the slippery properties of this ...

National Poetry Day 2022 | BBC Teach Live Lessons

National Poetry Day 2022 | BBC Teach Live Lessons

Poetry | CBBC | 2022 | 28'02''

Katie Thistleton joins new children's laureate Joseph Coelho live from Newstead Abbey for a fantastic Live Lesson to celebr...

Flying spiders | Life in the Undergrowth

Flying spiders | Life in the Undergrowth

Biodiversity and human impact | BBC One | 2005 | 2'20''

David Attenborough looks at gossamer threads made by baby money spiders. The spiderlings use this gossamer to travel by 'ballooning'.

Baby ibex chased by fox | Planet Earth II

Baby ibex chased by fox | Planet Earth II

Biology | BBC One | 2016 | 1'12''

Vertiginous slopes keep ibex families safe from predators but they need to descend to flat ground to drink and this brings them in ...

Bear Whiteout | Incredible Animal Journeys

Bear Whiteout | Incredible Animal Journeys

Animal migration | BBC One | 2010 | 28''

This sort of weather's uncomfortable for us humans, but it would have to get much, much worse to bother the bears. They can handle...

Caribou resilience | Incredible Animal Journeys

Caribou resilience | Incredible Animal Journeys

Animal migration | BBC One | 2014 | 32''

It's -40 degrees, but caribou are built to withstand these extremes. They have compact bodies, insulating hollow fur and they...

S01E20: You Try to Catch a Falling Star? | Hey You, What If?

S01E20: You Try to Catch a Falling Star? | Hey You, What If?

Earth and Space | CBBC | 2020 | 5'00''

What happens if you try to catch a falling star? Spoiler alert - probably best not to try!

S01E21: You Woke Up as a Lizard Superhero? | Hey You, What If?

S01E21: You Woke Up as a Lizard Superhero? | Hey You, What If?

Animal adaptations | CBBC | 2020 | 4'59''

Why waking up with lizard powers would make you useless on earth but a superhero in space!

S01E02: You Could Dig Through the Earth? | Hey You, What If?

S01E02: You Could Dig Through the Earth? | Hey You, What If?

Earth and Space | CBBC | 2020 | 5'00''

The deepest hole humankind ever dug only got one thousandth of the way through the earth. But what would happen ...

S01E22: You Could Build a Gingerbread House? | Hey You, What If?

S01E22: You Could Build a Gingerbread House? | Hey You, What If?

Materials | CBBC | 2020 | 4'58''

It's the ultimate baking challenge: making a gingerbread house you could actually live in.

S01E23: You Could Teleport? | Hey You, What If?

S01E23: You Could Teleport? | Hey You, What If?

Primary Science | CBBC | 2020 | 5'00''

Is it really possible to teleport? Spoiler alert: it could end in disaster!

S01E25: You Could Switch Off the Sun? | Hey You, What If?

S01E25: You Could Switch Off the Sun? | Hey You, What If?

Earth and Space | CBBC | 2020 | 4'59''

See what would happen if you really could switch off the sun.

S01E26: You Could Fly Like a Bird? | Hey You, What If?

S01E26: You Could Fly Like a Bird? | Hey You, What If?

Animal adaptations | CBBC | 2020 | 5'00''

Anyone can fly like a bird - you just have to travel across the solar system to do it!

S01E03: You Could Take a Lift to Space? | Hey You, What If?

S01E03: You Could Take a Lift to Space? | Hey You, What If?

Earth and Space | CBBC | 2020 | 5'00''

What would happen if there really was a lift that took you all the way up to space?

S01E05: You Could Go on Holiday to Mars? | Hey You, What If?

S01E05: You Could Go on Holiday to Mars? | Hey You, What If?

Earth and Space | CBBC | 2020 | 5'00''

Experience the ultimate in long-distance travel - a holiday on Mars!

S01E04: You Could Turn Into a Giant? | Hey You, What If?

S01E04: You Could Turn Into a Giant? | Hey You, What If?

Animals Including Humans | CBBC | 2020 | 5'01''

Find out why turning into a huge giant would be no fairy tale.