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3A Teeth and eating Pet Fat Camp How Old is my Mummy?	3B Helping plants grow Can science prevent famine? Fatal Flowering Colourful Cauliflowers	3C Characteristics of materials Build a robot Ban the Bag


3D Rocks and soils Jurassic Coast Stonehenge Rocks! Pesky Potholes	3E Magnets and springs Magic or magnetic? Magna-Robot	3F Light and shadows Summer Sun Sorting Out the Oil Spill British Bluebells Ready Sunny Go!


4A Moving and growing Mister Big Fabulous fossil find Favourite Colours Dead as a dodo: new evidence from bones Speedy Dino	4B Habitats Thames Whale: Countdown to Catastrophe Help the Hedgehog Roboroach Stop the Superweed Butterfly Blues	4C Keeping warm Egg Cosy Minus 30 Celsius


4D Solids and liquids Ash Cloud Chaos Chocolate Factory	4E Friction Sports Day Superstar Paper planes: a perfect performer Free Spirit Skating and skiing	4F Circuits and conductors Knee Power Taser!


5A Keeping healthy Kids Behaving Badly Miss Perfect Health News Scott of the Antarctic Bushtucker Challenge Heart restarts SOS Save our sweets	5B Life cycles Martian Masterchef Flour Power The Farmer's Friend Vanishing bees Seed Bank Can cloning save species?	5C Gases around us The Deathzone Mystery plane disaster Fuelling the flight


5D Changing state Iceberg Ahead! Levels Rising kettle car	5E Earth, Sun and Moon Track-it Jacket Great Wall of China Space Shuttle The Time Traveller What happened to Pluto? New Earth	5F Changing sounds What's that buzzing noise? Snorers - what's all that noise? Alarming Clock Sounds Under the Sea


6A Interdependence and adaptation Living Forever Where's Wally? Evolution accolade Dirty Work Ida - The Missing Link? Moose on the Loose	6B Micro-organisms War of the Worlds Spreading Swine Flu Recycle it! Bluetongue Blight	6C Dissolving Grow Your Own Snowman A Sticky Problem Happy Birthday DNA fingerprinting


6D Reversible & irreversible changes Pukka Puddings Clever Cooker Chocolate changes Disappearing ink	6E Forces in action Cosmic Clown Life's Ups and Downs Plimsoll Line Juicy adventure Celebs in space Awesome Airbus	6F How we see things Now you see me?

6G Changing circuits Blowing in the Wind Get Ratty!

3A Teeth and eating

3B Helping plants grow

3C Characteristics of materials

3D Rocks and soils

3E Magnets and springs

3F Light and shadows

4A Moving and growing

4B Habitats

4C Keeping warm

4D Solids and liquids

4E Friction

4F Circuits and conductors

5A Keeping healthy

5B Life cycles

5C Gases around us

5D Changing state

5E Earth, Sun and Moon

5F Changing sounds

6A Interdependence and adaptation

6B Micro-organisms

6C Dissolving

6D Reversible & irreversible changes

6E Forces in action

6F How we see things

6G Changing circuits