Children love learning outdoors and the positive effects on their mental and physical wellbeing have been well documented. This collection takes your children’s learning outdoors with a focus on living things.

Why not try to germinate some seeds from fruit or vegetables, or get outside to look for flowers and plants. This collection of activities about plants is ideal to do at home with your little explorers.

This collection is all about habitats. Watch together and look closely – describe the different habitats you can see and look at how different living things interact within their habitat.

This collection is all about Earth, seasons and time. The movement of the earth around the sun gives us our seasons.

This collection is all about light. We see things because light is reflected from them. Shadows form because light cannot pass through something.

Everything is made of stuff and scientists call that stuff material which we can use in different ways in our everyday lives. Use these actvity ideas at home, to learn about the properties of materials.

Evolution takes place over millennia. We can see how living things are adapted to their environments which shows how evolution has taken place over a very long time. This collection of activities about fossils and evolution is ideal to do at home.

This collection is all about forces. To make something move you need a force. Watch the three videos in the collection to explore more about forces while learning at home.

This collection is all about changing materials. Everything is made of stuff – scientists call that stuff material – and we can use it in different ways in our everyday lives. We can make new materials that are useful to us.

This collection is all about the human body. All living things have basic needs for life. Food provides us with energy to live. Our homes provide us with shelter – to keep us warm in winter and provide shade in summer.

This collection of activities all about birds is ideal to do at home with your little explorers.

This collection is all about classification. Grouping living things helps us understand more about them. Use these activity suggestions to spark a conversation about classification.

This collection is all about sound. Sounds are made when something vibrates. We hear sounds because the vibrations travel to our ears.

Whether it's a school homework activity, expanding on a general interest, or part of a homeschool curriculum, both Science Sparks and Explorify are bursting with resources to spark curiosity and inspire a love of science and learning.