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Showing a colourful cartoon picture of a Galapagos island with a woman and boy and dog on the beach and bird cards arranged like a game of snap.

Darwin's Footsteps

A Darwin game from Rolls-Royce. Lots of fun and facts to support your child's science learning. Ages 6 and up.

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Tripwire of Terror!

Tripwire of Terror!

Simple game about the preying and mating habits of the ladybird spider. Very good memory exercise too. Ages 5 and up. From Planet ARKive.

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Day And Night Garden Explorer

Day And Night Garden Explorer

Simple and engaging exploring activity to help children of 5 and over spot and identify hidden garden creatures. From Hantsweb Museums and Archives.

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Super Bugs

Super Bugs

If your child is studying minibeasts at school, support their learning with this simple 'build a bug' activity. For ages 5 and over though non-readers will need help. From My Learning.

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The Fish Olympics

The Fish Olympics

Excellent game on fish and their fishy characteristics from Liverpool Museums. Fun and info-rich. Ages 6 or so and upwards.

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Climbers and Creepers

Climbers and Creepers

Fun games and stories about plants, habitats, insects and more to explore with your child, up to about age 8. From Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

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Design A Garden

Design A Garden

Garden design without muddy wellies. Based on gardens through history. For ages 6 and up. From the Geffrye Museum Kids' Zone.

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Where's Monty?

Where's Monty?

Very simple nature game - great for introducing mouse skills to very young children. From Leicester Museums.

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Our Global Garden

Our Global Garden

Explore the planet with Gordon Gnome in this game from Show Me and Eureka! The Museum For Children .

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Thames Tales

Thames Tales

Toot the Tugboat needs your help in this crazy game from London's Transport Museum.

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Snail Survey 2009

Snail Survey 2009

Evolution MegaLab want you to find snails.

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Live animals at the Horniman's new Nature Base Gallery

Live animals at the Horniman's new Nature Base Gallery

Bees, bugs and some very cute little harvest mice - and they're all in the Horniman Museum's new Nature Base Gallery.

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Aah! New rare goats arrives at Wimpole Home Farm

Aah! New rare goats arrive at Wimpole Home Farm

This is a Bagot goat and there aren't many left in Britain. But the National Trust is trying to change that.

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Can You Tell One Bee From Another?

Can You Tell One Bee From Another?

Here's a great interactive from the Natural History Museum website where you can tell one bee from the other.

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Wonderful Worms Poetry Competition

Wonderful Worms Poetry Competition

Wriggling worms - it's a worm poetry competition from Buglife.

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Once Upon a Website

Be a winner with Once upon a website

Here's a cool website we like where you can write your own stories and even win a prize.

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Save Our Bees!

Save Our Bees!

Did you know that billions of bees are dying out? Here's how you can help to save them.

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How Do You Wash A Stuffed Dog?

How Do You Wash A Stuffed Dog?

Staff at Tring's Natural History Museum are about to begin work cleaning a collection of stuffed dogs.

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Beach Artists Needed: Can YOU Make Art From Seaside Stones?

Beach Artists Needed: Can YOU Make Art From Seaside Stones?

Get down to the seaside and get artistic to take part in the V&A Museum's World Beach project.

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Meerkat Makes Movie? New Wildlife Website Launches

Meerkat Makes Movie? New Wildlife Website Launches

A brand new website about wildlife filmmaking goes live this week.

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Museum Beehive Creates A Buzz About Bees

Museum Beehive Creates A Buzz About Bees

A 'bee tree' which give you a bees'-eye view of a honeybee hive has been set up to raise awareness about falling numbers of honeybees.

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Is Our History Crumbling Away?

Is Our History Crumbling Away?

Did you know that over 12,000 photos, taken from the air, are being used to record the changes happening on the British coastline?

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Clown Anemone Fish

Looking For Nemo At The New Horniman Aquarium

Show Me reporters Alex, Benjamin and Joseph went on the trail of a famous fish at the Horniman Museum in London.

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Volcano Erupting! Find Out More About Merapi

Mount Merapi volcano: our kids' guide to volcanoes

The Merapi volcano in Indonesia is erupting, find out more about volcanoes here.

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Fish With Fingers Goes On Display At Science Museum

Fish With Fingers Goes On Display At Science Museum

An amazing new fossil of a fish with fingers went on display in London this week.

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Giant Squid Arrives At The Natural History Museum

Giant Squid Arrives At The Natural History Museum

A massive monster from the deep has found a home at the Natural History Museum in London.

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Noah's Ark Goes Online At Planet ARKive

Noah's Ark Online At Planet ARKive

Find out about this Noah's Ark for the twenty-first century, full of weird and wonderful creatures.

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Watch Out, Hedwig – World's Biggest Owl Found Breeding In England

A pair of rare eagle owls have been breeding for the past few years at a secret location on the North York Moors.

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Bone-Eating Snot-Flower And Other Animal Discoveries

Bone-Eating Snot-Flower And Other Animal Discoveries

Bees that solve puzzles, singing mice, rare spiders and strange worms that eat bones - whatever next?

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Cow Farts: Global Warmers Or A Load Of Hot Air?

Cow Farts: Global Warmers Or A Load Of Hot Air?

As cows and sheep happily burp and fart in fields around the world, scientists are divided over just how harmful their emissions really are...

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Seabird chicks eaten by massive mice

Seabird Chicks Eaten By Massive Mice

Mice attacking birds 250 times bigger than them? Click on the pic to find out what's going on...

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Seriously Snowy Pictures: Scott & Shackleton Online

Seriously Snowy Pictures: Scott & Shackleton On The Web

As snow sweeps Britain, Show Me looks back at the Golden Age of Polar exploration...

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Top Tips On Munching Mini-Beasts

Top Tips On Munching Mini-Beasts

As an exhibition all about eating insects opens in Birmingham, we give you the lowdown on munching bugs.

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Spiders, Skulls, Dino Eggs And More In New Museum

Spiders, Skulls, Dino Eggs And More In New Museum

The Cole Museum of Zoology in Reading re-opens.

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New Look For Global Garden

New Look For Global Garden

Good news for screenreader users...

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Amazing Metallic Magpie Nest Goes On Show

An unusual magpie nest goes on display at The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.

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Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dogs' Tails

The Darwin Centre is full to the brim with weird and wonderful pickled creatures.

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Penguins Waddle Into The News

Snowdrop the penguin chick and his Falkland Islands cousins are in the news this week.

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Dolly, Scotland's Most Famous Sheep, Goes On Show

Dolly, the famous cloned sheep, is soon to go on display at Royal Museum, Edinburgh.

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Otters Slink Back From The Brink

Otters are swimming into Britain's towns and cities after years away.

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Bones!

Simple site on bones - perfect homework helper for kids covering the skeleton from Hampshire Museums.

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All About Animals

Database of info and images on animals and habitats. Great homework helper, for ages 4 and up. From Northumberland Grid for Learning.

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Animal Magic

Inspiring animal stories.

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Precycling - Put Pester Power To Good Use

Encourage eco-friendly kids.

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Island Adventure

Exploring, survival and nature's bounty all rolled into one children's classic.

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Coming Soon

More fun stuff on the way soon.

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