Joe gets your body moving today with some fun activation activities, and then will take you through a short mindfulness exercise - you'll feel great after this!

Using senses such as sight, touch and taste, your brain is capable of making amazing calculations that let us respond to the world around us. Teach students more about this with our fun brain activities and lesson plan.

Suzy challenges her grey matter to investigate what our brains do.

Pseudoscience is something that sounds scientific but isn’t actually based on solid evidence. Advertisments often use pseudoscience, which can be misleading. To be able to tell the difference between real science and pseudoscience, we need to think like scientists.

Dr Melanie Cheung is a neurobiologist. She studies the roro (brain), collecting and analysing data about how it works and what can go wrong. She also studies the use of tikanga (Māori customary practices) in the modern science world.

Does your body have a dominant side? Test yourself with a variety of challenges to find your dominant eye, hand and foot.

Do you like being able to tell the difference between a hot piece of pizza and a cold piece of pizza?

Our eyes are incredible machines, but how do they work? Suzy asks the question while on the grounds of parliament, in NZ. She visits the NZ Film Archive and takes a good look things there!

Look no further… Bill Nye is on the ball – the eyeball.

Have you ever wondered which animal might be the smartest, and how we might measure intelligence? Make this memory game at home and see how your memory compares to your friends!

Mindfulness is such an important skill to learn for children in an increasingly hectic and sometimes stressful world. Joe takes you through some simple exercises you can do to be still in the moment and start your mindfulness practice.

Next time you start staring at yourself in the mirror, try a little science at the same time. Here’s an experiment that shows how your brain works with what you see

Suzy heads out across the harbour to discover that it's not the sea that makes us seasick!

Because light is so easily observable, we can readily investigate its sources and patterns (including reflection and absorption) and consider how we receive and process the sensory information of light and colour.

When we look at people, we look for patterns. We look to see how much someone’s left side looks like his or her right side. How much one side of a pattern or shape is like another side is called symmetry (SIMM-eh-tree).

Think about this: it’s the Brain Episode.

In this episode Dr Michelle Dickinson will cover the basic anatomy and function of the human brain, carry out a hands-on experiment and talk about blackouts and brain injuries with Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains from Brain Research New Zealand.

We need to eyes to be able to use binoculars and to see through both lenses of a pair of glasses, but what's the real reason you have two eyes?

Join Nanogirl as she takes a trip to Auckland Zoo to find out what the smartest animal is.

Games to share with whānau