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!

We added this episode of Suzy's World especially for Allergy NZ and all our friends with allergies. Everything we can do to make a friend's life easier has to be a good thing, so even if you don't have an allergy yourself it's a good idea to watch and learn so you can look out for your friends.

What time is your dentist appointment? Two thirty (tooth hurty!). Head to https://suzy.co.nz/sw-factsheets/ for the factsheet that accompanies this episode.

It’s time for a heart-to-heart talk about blood and circulation with Bill Nye the Science Guy.

In this show, you can Bone up on Muscles.

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.

Suzy risks putting her foot in her mouth as she investigates what causes cavities in our teeth.

You can’t see them, but they’re everywhere even inside Bill Nye. This is not science fiction, it’s the science of cells.

Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsRxzK0_D8

In “Saffron’s Skeleton”, osteologist George demonstrates to ten-year-old Bruno the processes he uses to clean and preserve the bones of Saffron, a recently deceased chicken. The whole experience, including George’s enthusiastic and knowledgeable approach to his work, provides Bruno with a sense of wonder and curiosity and a greater understanding of skeletons and evolutional relationships.

Have you noticed that exercising a lot can make you feel tired or sore? Sometimes when we exercise very hard, our muscles use oxygen faster than our body can supply it. This is called muscle fatigue. Moana and Oscar carry out a simple investigation to discover more about muscle fatigue.

Scientific evidence suggests that sitting for long periods of time can cause health problems and that standing and moving around is better for us. But as with any scientific evidence, we need to ask questions about the evidence to determine if it can be trusted.

Sarah Cook is a busy year 10 student living with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that can affect your day-to-day life. Find out what Sarah does to manage her diabetes and make sure it doesn’t prevent her full and active lifestyle.

Take time to digest this show.

Link for video: https://www.schooltube.com/media/bill-nye-digestion/1_8cp9b8or

My, what big teeth you have… Find out how the physical features of dinosaurs and other animals help them meet their basic survival needs. Use this new understanding to design a defence against a dinosaur attack!

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

Ears are great! You can hook your glasses over them; you can hang earrings from them, and they can stop your hat sliding down over your eyes! But, how do your ears work?

Join Suzy as she finds out what humans need for fuel.

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.

A low pulse rate and fast recovery time after exercise can be indicators of good physical fitness. This investigation encourages students to develop their investigative skills by thinking carefully about the quality of the data they collect.

Bill Nye’s a regular gene machine in the “Genes” episode.

Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80srGMzydQo

Covering the structure and function of DNA and its role in inheritance, Dr. Michelle Dickinson will carry out a hands-on experiment and talk about genetics and cancer research with Dr Melanie McConnell from the Victoria University of Wellington.