In this term's issue we provide some tasty ideas for teaching food and nutrition, including how to grow your own crops while still encouraging wildlife.There is a new engaging activity for teaching indicators, and for the more adventurous, a 'how to guide' to run a space mission in your own playground.

This term we showcase an investigation making models of pond skaters and take a closer look at the amazing woodlouse. We also examine the new National Curriculum for Design and Technology with food in the Primary Curriculum, as well as a first look at the new edition of ASE - Be Safe.

This practical activity describes how children can extract iron from breakfast cereal using a neodymium magnet.

In this terms issue we outline some experiments to find out which bird food mixtures are best for hungry birds, review good practice for rearing chicks in light of bird flu and look at safe ways to introduce primary pupils to microorganisms. There is also an introduction to resources from the FSA that could could be an interesting way to introduce the topic of food allergies.