Science

Stargazing

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Eddie, a boy whose favourite thing is space, gets ready to go stargazing in his garden and is joined by his friend Akeel. A guiding voice walks him through each step: choosing a clear spot, setting out chairs, a torch and binoculars, dressing warmly, waiting for dark and turning off lights, then looking up at stars, planets and constellations. Eddie shares facts and is reminded to check whether Akeel has any questions. When it is time to stop, Eddie is reluctant, but Akeel reassures him he can stargaze again, and the episode closes with a recap of the steps.

Library

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A narrator prepares Eddie, a young boy, for a trip to the library, framed around returning his favourite book about the first Mars rover. Together they cover arriving, the library rules, browsing the sections and children's area, and reading with Dad, before Eddie chooses a new book about UFOs and aliens. He uses the self-checkout machine and drops his old book into the book drop for someone else to borrow. The episode ends by recapping each stage of the visit.

Opticians

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A boy named Eddie is guided through what happens at an optician visit, from arriving with Mum and waiting to be called, to a series of eye tests in a special room. A calm narrator explains each step while Eddie tries on glasses, looks into the picture machine and sits through a test in a darkened room. The optician tells him his eyes are perfectly healthy, so he will not need glasses today. Eddie is briefly let down, then delighted when he is given a pair of sunglasses to wear.

Fig Finds A Shadow

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Fig, a young blue fox, finds a flashlight and notices a shadow he does not understand. With a hedgehog friend he heads into a dark cave to explore, shining the light to make shadows grow, shrink, and change shape. They pass glowing crystals and try making different shadow figures along the way. By the end, Fig works out that the mysterious shape is simply his own shadow.

Springy Surprise

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Fig, a small blue fox, lives in a colourful forest world of tall mossy trees and a beached blue ship. After finding a coiled spring in his finding tree, he spends the episode discovering how it bounces and stretches through playful experiments. He then uses what he learns to help his friends gather and carry their harvest of fruits and vegetables. The episode ends with a cheerful celebration among the forest friends.

The Meteor Shower

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On a night on Puffin Rock, young puffin Una and her family and friends set out to watch the August meteor shower together. Along the way they gather hedgehogs, owls and others heading for the sand dunes, while a narrator explains how shooting stars are made. When Una learns her friend Silky is too worried to come, she leaves the show to reassure her and offers to stay by her side. Silky joins them, the friends welcome her with a berry, and the whole island watches the meteor shower together.

Starry, Starry Night

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Doc offers to fix her friend Henry's new telescope so he can watch a meteor shower, and inside her toy clinic it appears as Aurora, a toy telescope who cannot see clearly. Doc runs an eye exam, diagnoses 'blurry star-itis' and works out that an eyepiece is missing. The toys search the dark yard, find the missing piece, and fit it back so Aurora can see. Everyone returns in time to watch the meteor shower together through the repaired telescope.

The Rolie Polie

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Sid wants to know how his tiny pet roly-polies move, so he brings them to school to investigate with his friends. Teacher Susie introduces the magnifying glass as a science tool, and the class uses it to look closely at skin, crayons, and the bugs themselves. Sid discovers that roly-polies walk on fourteen little legs and records his findings in a journal. He reports back to his dad during a backyard bug hunt and ends the day imagining a hat full of magnifying glasses.

Project Radish-A-Pult

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In Doozer Creek, a gust of wind knocks a heavy branch onto the only bridge, blocking the delivery of radishes needed to keep building a wind turbine. The Pod Squad, Spike, Molly, Daisy Wheel and Flex, ask Professor Gimbal and Doozer Dad for advice and decide to build a machine that flings radishes across the ravine. Their first launch sends the radishes too far, so they set up a large pillow on the other side to catch them. With the radishes delivered, construction continues and the squad recaps how they solved it before the closing song.

Silky and the Octopus

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On a calm Irish island, a young puffin named Una and her seal friend Silky explore an underwater lagoon and follow a pod of dolphins. When Silky is startled by a strange eight-armed creature that vanishes in a black cloud, they visit the older seal Bernie, who explains that it was an octopus. Reassured that the octopus was more scared than she was, Silky returns with Una to see it properly. The octopus gives them a little wave, and the narrator notes that every day is an adventure on Puffin Rock.

Too Much Junk Food

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Papa Bear decides to enter the Bear Country Run but quickly discovers he is out of shape, so Brother and Sister join him to train as a team. When they keep running out of breath, Dr. Grizzly explains that too much junk food is the wrong fuel for the body and teaches them about the four food groups. The family swaps cola and sweets for healthier meals and keeps practising until they can complete the run together. It ends at home, with the bears choosing to celebrate with carrot sticks, nuts and raisins.

Owl School

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On the coastal island of Puffin Rock, young puffin Oona and her baby brother Baba stumble onto the owls' flying school run by Otto. They try each owl lesson in turn, hunting, silent flying, night vision and the head swivel, and discover puffins simply cannot do what owls do. When a puffling drifts toward the water, Oona swoops in to help. The episode ends with the owls wanting to learn puffin skills instead, and the narrator noting that puffins and owls are each incredible in their own way.

Count Their Blessings

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Sister and Brother Bear come home from friends' houses wishing they had as many dolls and video games as Lizzie and Cousin Fred. When a thunderstorm knocks out the power, the family gathers by the fire with cocoa while Mama and Papa help the cubs name the things they are thankful for, from a safe house to a loving family. Papa also shows them how to tell how far away the storm is by counting between lightning and thunder. At bedtime Sister happily counts her blessings, and the parents catch themselves wishing for new furniture before deciding to do the same.

I Am Marie Curie

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Xavier, Yadina and Brad use their secret museum to travel back to Poland in 1884 and meet Marie Curie as a young girl. Yadina is sad she is too young for the Butterfly Club, and Marie learns she cannot attend the university because she is a girl. The friends visit a secret Flying University for girls, and Marie later builds her own lab and discovers a new glowing material. Back home Yadina starts her own junior butterfly club open to everyone, and a short hide-and-seek scene in the dinosaur exhibit closes the file.

Paleontologist Paloma

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A paleontologist named Paloma comes to the Helpsters workshop because her new dinosaur fossil, a Herrerasaurus, arrived in many pieces. Cody and his team of monsters make a plan with three jobs: figure out what the fossil looks like, put it together, and display it. They travel to a real natural history museum, use a dinosaur book to guide them, and assemble the skeleton piece by piece. When it will not fit in the elevator, they take it apart, sing a song to remember each part, and rebuild it upstairs just as a school group arrives.

Try This Club On for Size

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Pinecone, a boastful young warrior, and her pony visit their friend Hawthorne's WizKids magic class, sure that spellwork is easier than warrior training. When Pinecone rushes the potion steps she overflows her cauldron and destroys Hawthorne's carefully made rainbow, and he asks her to leave. Realizing how much magic means to him, she returns that night, apologizes, and lets him teach her the real steps. Together they conjure an even bigger rainbow, and Pinecone invites Hawthorne to try her warrior class next.

Super Science Tools

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Sid is a young boy who collects science tools and cannot decide which is his favorite: his magnifying glass, estimation jar, chart or ruler. He brings the magnifying glass to school, where teacher Susie and his friends explore each tool through hands-on investigations, from magnifying tiny bugs to estimating balls in a jar and measuring the classroom with their bodies. Real children appear in short clips trying the same activities themselves. By bedtime Sid decides he likes all of his science tools equally.

The Gecko Effect

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Chris and Martin Kratt set out to discover how a gecko climbs on smooth surfaces. After a failed suction-cup experiment, they miniaturise themselves to study a Tokay gecko's toe pads up close and learn about microscopic electrostatic hairs. Meanwhile, the villain Zach Varmitech steals their miniaturiser and traps the team, who escape by using their new gecko powers to climb out. The episode ends with the inventions reclaimed and the brothers naming the gecko 'Okay'.

Iceland: A Land of Ice and Fire

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Jessi, the host, welcomes back Squeaks, a robot rat, who shares photos from his trip to Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland. Together they figure out where he went and explore why this 'land of ice and fire' has both fiery volcanoes and freezing glaciers, using maps, diagrams and real photographs. They learn how volcanoes and glaciers form, how tectonic plates shape the land, and which plants and animals live there, such as moss and harbor seals. The episode ends with Jessi thanking Squeaks for sharing and inviting viewers to think about whether they would explore a volcano, a glacier, or both.

All Dried Up

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Ms. Frizzle's class builds a desert diorama and Phoebe becomes convinced the desert animals need rescuing from heat, hunger and thirst. The magic school bus flies them into a real desert, where they watch a lizard, jackrabbit, tortoise and other animals cope with the harsh conditions on their own. A sudden rainstorm floods the land and, by morning, the desert blooms, showing how everything there is adapted to survive. The episode closes with a phone call in which a caller quizzes the bus about desert facts and asks after Phoebe.

In the Haunted House

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Carlos has invented an instrument for a school concert, but it makes only a 'loopy' sound and he cannot fix it in time. When the magic school bus overheats, Ms. Frizzle's class ends up spending the night in what turns out to be the Sound Museum, a spooky old house where they chase mysterious noises and learn that sound is made by vibration. Guided by their questions and a living descendant of the museum's founder, Carlos works out that his instrument needs to vibrate freely, strips it down, and finally produces the sound he imagined. The episode closes with a phone call to the show's producer that reviews how sound and hearing work.

Itchy Head Lice

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Host Jessi and her robot rat Squeaks explain head lice from a bright studio set, using close-up footage and simple diagrams. Jessi describes what lice are, how they spread through shared hats and brushes, their life cycle from egg to adult, and how to treat them with a fine-tooth comb and special shampoo. She reassures children that anyone can get lice and it is nothing to worry about. The episode ends with her advice to tell an adult whenever something feels unusual.

Bot at the Museum

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Doug, a curious robot, wants to know why humans visit museums to learn, so his friend Emma and Uncle Forkrick take him to the Mega City Museum. They explore an early-machines room and try a pulley, walk through an immersive prehistoric jungle, and reach the dinosaur hall, where Uncle Forkrick worries the roaring T-Rex is dangerous. When it turns out to be a skeleton, everyone counts its 60 teeth, feels fossils and learns how dinosaurs looked and lived. Doug ends the trip understanding that museums let you touch, feel, see and hear things to learn about them.