Ages 8–10
Iron Age for Kids: Tools, Hillforts and Tribes
The Iron Age is the last part of prehistory. It is when iron took the place of bronze for tools and weapons.…
Bronze Age for Kids: Metal, Trade and Burials
The Bronze Age is when people first made tools and weapons from metal. Bronze is copper mixed with a little tin, and…
New Stone Age for Kids: Farming, Homes and Tools
The New Stone Age is when people stopped hunting and started farming. Instead of following animals and picking wild plants, they grew…
Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) Facts for Kids
The Middle Stone Age is the short middle part of the Stone Age. In Britain it ran from about 9600 BC to…
Old Stone Age for Kids: Tools, People and Art
The Old Stone Age is the first and longest part of the human story. It began more than three million years ago,…
Bonfire Night Facts for Kids
Bonfire Night facts for kids start with one night: 5 November 1605. Around midnight, Guy Fawkes was caught guarding 36 barrels of…
Day of the Dead Facts for Kids
The Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a festival from Mexico held on 1 and 2 November. Families…
How to Make a Stone Age Weapon
To make a Stone Age weapon, people chose stone that breaks cleanly, such as flint. They chipped it into a sharp point,…
Bat Facts for Kids
These bat facts for kids start with the basics. Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight, and their wings are…
Ancient Egypt Facts for Kids
Ancient Egypt was a kingdom along the River Nile in north-east Africa. It lasted about 3,000 years, from around 3100 BC until…
T. rex Facts for Kids
T. rex, short for Tyrannosaurus rex (“tyrant lizard king”), was a giant meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 68 to 66 million years…
Dinosaur Facts for Kids
Dinosaur facts for kids start with one surprise: dinosaurs are not all extinct. They were reptiles that stood with their legs straight…
Why Is the Sky Blue?
The sky is blue because air scatters blue light more than red. Sunlight is a mix of every colour. Blue light travels…
Moon Facts for Kids
These Moon facts for kids start with the basics. The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite, a ball of rock about 3,480…
History of England Timeline for Kids
The history of England runs from the first people here, around 900,000 years ago, to the country you can visit now. England…
Capybara Facts for Kids
The capybara is the largest rodent in the world, weighing up to 79 kg. It lives near rivers, lakes and swamps in…
Saturn Facts for KS2
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the solar system. It is a gas giant made…
Neptune Facts for Kids
Did you know Neptune is the eighth and most distant major planet from the Sun in our solar system? It is one…
Axolotl Facts for Kids
Have you ever seen an animal that looks like it is smiling all the time? Meet the axolotl, one of the strangest…
Life Cycle of a Watermelon Plant: Growth Stages From Seed to Fruit
The watermelon plant life cycle takes about 10 to 16 weeks from seed to ripe fruit. A seed sprouts in warm soil…
