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Electricity Switch On Christmas Lights Get Ratty! Giant's Causeway Blowing in the Wind Knee Power Lights Out!	Physical changes Save Our Snowman Le Whiff Scott of the Antarctic Levels Rising Kettle Car Iceberg Ahead! Living Forever Deathzone Sorting Out the Oil Spill Happy Birthday DNA fingerprinting Chocolate Factory Grow Your Own Snowman Ash Cloud Chaos Pukka Puddings	Humans & animals Fuelling the Olympics Miss Perfect Egg Cosy How Old is my Mummy? Who Did It? Searching for Squirrels Dead as a dodo: new evidence from bones Kids Behaving Badly Roboroach Moose on the Loose 101 Dalmatians? SOS Save Our Sweets War of the Worlds Sheep Pig Pink Milk Schmallenberg Virus Pet Fat Camp Bushtucker Challenge Heart restarts First Class Scientists Mister Big icow Looking for Ladybirds Bluetongue Blight Sweet Dreams Spreading Swine Flu Hungry Caterpillar Health News Left Right Polar Bears Can cloning save species? Miracle Berry Money-munching Termites


Forces and energy Awesome Airbus Odo's Truck Spudnik Speedy Snow Travel Magic or magnetic? Crossing the River Free Spirit Getting Lost Juicy adventure Cosmic Clown Egg Smasher Plimsoll Line Flying through Space Skating and skiing Sports Day Superstar Celebs in space Easter Island Hats Timing the Tsunami Life's Ups and Downs	Material properties Build a robot Ricky's Shelter Magna-Robot Minus 30 Celsius Track-it Jacket All Change Chocolate changes How Green is Your Tree? Mystery plane disaster Floating Ducks Ricky's Backpack Fuelling the Flight A Sticky Problem Cycling to the South Pole Ban the Bag	Plants Flour Power Building Big Price of Rice British Bluebells Can science prevent famine? Stop the Superweed Nature Walk Fatal Flowering Moss Mat Martian Masterchef Happy Trees Colourful Cauliflowers Seed Bank


Sound and Light Snorers - what's all that noise? Now you see me? Seeing Rainbows Sounds Under the Sea Ready Sunny Go! What's that buzzing noise? Summer Sun Vroom Vroom! Favourite Colours Alarming Clock	Chemical changes Disappearing ink Clever Cooker	Variety & classification Ladybird, Ladybird, where is your home? Creepers or Creepy Crawlies?

Earth in Space Time Traveller New Earth Space Shuttle What happened to Pluto?	Earth science Beat the Heat Great Wall of China Rise of the Dinosaurs Jurassic Coast Stonehenge Rocks! Pesky Potholes Fabulous fossil find	Adaption & interdependence Evolution accolade Vanishing bees Help the Hedgehog Ida - The Missing Link? Recycle it! Darwin 200 Speedy Dino Thames Whale: Countdown to Catastrophe Farmer's Friend Where's Wally? Dirty Work

Electricity

Physical changes

Humans & animals

Forces and energy

Material properties

Plants

Sound and Light

Chemical changes

Variety & classification

Earth in Space

Earth science

Adaption & interdependence