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3A Teeth and eating Pet Fat Camp How Old is my Mummy? Money-munching Termites	3B Helping plants grow Can science prevent famine? Colourful Cauliflowers Fatal Flowering Happy Trees	3C Characteristics of materials Ricky's Shelter Ban the Bag Cycling to the South Pole Build a robot


3D Rocks and soils Jurassic Coast Rise of the Dinosaurs Pesky Potholes Queen of Diamonds Stonehenge Rocks!	3E Magnets and springs All Change Magna-Robot Magic or magnetic?	3F Light and shadows British Bluebells Price of Rice Ready Sunny Go! Summer Sun


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


4D Solids and liquids Ash Cloud Chaos Chocolate Factory	4E Friction Sports Day Superstar Flying through Space Speedy Snow Travel Skating and skiing Free Spirit	4F Circuits and conductors Knee Power


5A Keeping healthy Miss Perfect Scott of the Antarctic Fuelling the Olympics Bushtucker Challenge Heart restarts Health News Kids Behaving Badly SOS Save Our Sweets	5B Life cycles Vanishing bees Flour Power Seed Bank Martian Masterchef Farmer's Friend Can cloning save species?	5C Gases around us Man in a Box Mystery plane disaster Deathzone Beat the Heat Where's the Water? Fuelling the Flight


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


6A Interdependence and adaptation Harlequin Ladybird -Invader and Settler Dirty Work Living Forever Ida - The Missing Link? Moose on the Loose Who Did It? Where's Wally? Evolution accolade Darwin 200	6B Micro-organisms Recycle it! Schmallenberg Virus War of the Worlds Bluetongue Blight Spreading Swine Flu	6C Dissolving Grow Your Own Snowman A Sticky Problem Happy Birthday DNA fingerprinting Sorting Out the Oil Spill


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

6G Changing circuits Blowing in the Wind Christmas Lights 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