Science: Year 6

Science: Year 6

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Science: Year 6
  • It's Your Planet Too - Ep4: Fuel from Trash

    What Happens to Your Garbage? Making, fuel From Trash Using Hyper-Speed and Composting. You probably know that we humans make a lot of garbage. We use stuff and we throw it away, everyday. You may also know that we use a lot of fuel, especially fossil fuels like coal to create electricity for our...

  • It's Your Planet Too - Ep3: Solar Culture

    Solar Culture - Think Outside the Box
    About Solar
    You might already know that a solar farm is a piece of land where we set up a huge number of solar panels to generate electricity from the Sun’s energy.
    You may have seen these farms in pictures or videos, or maybe you have
    some near where you liv...

  • It's Your Planet Too - Ep2: Solar Batteries

    Solar Batteries for Kids - Next Generation. You may be used to seeing solar panels on the roofs of building and houses. And maybe you’ve seen some solar farms near where you live. The technology behind solar panels has been available since before you were born. But what you may not know is that t...

  • Australian Penguins

    A small colony of 'Little Penguins' live on Penguin Island off the coast Perth, Western Australia.
    The island has a Discovery Centre which treats and houses penguins that have been injured, orphaned or abandoned, usually as chicks

  • The Evolution of Madagascar

    Explores the island's remarkable ecosystems, how they came to be and how they are today. The forest may have all but disappeared, but the will to save what is left grows stronger by the day

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 01

    Alex learns to scuba dive as she embarks on her Borneo Ocean Diaries

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 02

    Alex does her first open water dive. Exploring the coral reefs of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park she encounters an endangered sea turtle and one of world’s most venomous snakes

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 03

    Alex travels to Mantani Island for a convention on sea turtles - there she meets up with Reef Check Malaysia and they discuss the importance of maintaining the environment in which the mammals live

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 04

    Alex spends the day on shrimp trawl boat and learns of the importance of sustainable fishing for local communities

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 05

    Alex visits Selingan, also know as Turtle Island.
    She witnesses the full life cycle of the mother sea turtle - from laying eggs on a beach at night to the emergence of the hatchlings and their race for survival to the open seas

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 06

    Alex returns to Mantanani Island and reconnects with the team from Reef Check Malaysia to see how plastic pollution is threatening the marine environment. She also finds out what the island community is doing to tackle the pollution

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 07

    Alex and scientist KC take a walk around the fish market in Sandakan where they come across baby sharks and stingrays for sale.
    KC explains the importance of sharks to a healthy marine ecosystem and how her research could improve the sustainability of the fishing industry and save sharks and rays.

  • Borneo Ocean Diaries - episode 08

    Alex and the MRF team dive below the waves to collect debris and marvel at the incredible marine life that lives in the reefs

  • Borneo Jungle Diaries - series 2, episode 07

    Alex joins scientists Miriam Kunde and Wong Siew Te as they perform a health check on one of Borneo's least studied animals - the Sun Bear

  • Borneo Jungle Diaries - series 2, episode 06

    Alex joins zoologist Syasya Jee as she sets out to find and research the feeding habits of Borneo's largest animal - the elephant

  • Borneo Jungle Diaries - series 2, episode 05

    Alex joins the DGFC team on a mission to capture and collar one of the world's rarest cats - Borneo's Sunda clouded leopard

  • Borneo Jungle Diaries - series 2, episode 04

    Alex helps Koko install a new home for some hornbills, Borneo's most recognisable birds, high up in the forest canopy

  • Borneo Jungle Diaries - series 2, episode 03

    Alex joins pangolin expert Elisa Panjang to see first hand the importance of scientific research and education in the fight to protect the worlds most trafficked animal - the pangolin

  • Borneo Jungle Diaries - series 2, episode 02

    Alex accompanies expert primatologist Danica Stark on a night search for one of Borneo's oddest creatures - the Tarsier

  • Borneo Jungle Diaries - series 2, episode 01

    Alex joins primatologist Maz on a mission to spot one of the world's strangest looking primates - the famous proboscis monkey