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The Google Science Fair - Kid Inventors of the World

Every year the internet search engine Google holds a competition to find the best research and/or invention by a kid inventor. The winners of the Google Science Fair hav[...]

Carbon Dating - The History of Bones

What can we tell from the study of BONES? According to Tina, we can tell an awful lot about a person by studying their bones - even centuries after they died. This process is [...]

Send a Story Around the World - STORY A - Part One - St Martin's School, UK

To celebrate World Book Day 2014, Jump! Mag is sending a story around the world. In fact, we are sending TWO stories around the world. This is STORY A, and next week STORY [...]

How to Eat Healthily With Food Allergies

Writer and blogger Kate Thompson has four children. Kitty and Archie are eight years old. Along with their older brothers (aged 12 and 16) they suffer from food allergies, in t[...]

Online Resources - History for Kids

After the popularity of our Science Resources for Kids List, we've been asked to make a list of recommendations for history for kids. We will update this list in the coming m[...]

Jump! Into SCIENCE - Dry Ice Bubble Experiment

Do you like blowing bubbles? Well, how would you feel if you could blow foggy bubbles that bounce? Pretty awesome, huh? Check out this fun dry ice bubble experi[...]

Health Matters - How to Get Rid of Head Lice

In the first of a new series of articles on health, pharmacist and writer Asha Fowells gives advice on how to get rid of head lice. Around one in three children in th[...]

Cool Bedroom Ideas for Kids

We've scoured the internet to find some fab rooms - not boys' rooms and girls' rooms, just really cool bedrooms ideas for kids. Maybe you've grown out of your princess[...]

What is The Point in Learning ... History

Have you ever sat in a Maths class wondering if you will ever have to do long division without a calculator once you leave school? Or silently cursed your Geogr[...]

Green and Growing: The Life of a Seed

As you know, there is a vast number of different kinds of plants growing all over the world, from snowy slopes to Amazon rain forests to dusty deserts: plant li[...]

Is Our Fate Really Out of Our Control? - Written By You

Nelson Mandela once said “I am the master of my Fate and the captain of my destiny." People say that your fate is out of your control and that things are meant to be but [...]

Interview with Skeleton Athlete Jor'dan McIntosh

Jor'dan McIntosh is one very special athlete. Currently studying at Loughborough University, the Derby born 23 year old is specialising in one of the most gruelling yet e[...]

The British Skeleton Team - Sliding to Victory

How would you like to slide down a very steep and winding track of ice on something very similar to a tea tray at around 140km per hour? Yes, no, maybe. Well, there are people out [...]

Move Over Girls, and Make Space for Ballet for Boys

DANCE is for EVERYONE! When did people begin to dance? No one knows for sure, but dancing has been around for as long as there have been people! Dancing provides people with[...]

Interview with Great British Bake Off Finalists 2013 - Ruby Tandoh and Kimberley Wilson

We were lucky enough to catch up with Great British Bake Off finalists 2013 - Ruby Tandoh and Kimberley Wilson - at the fantastic 'Be Remarkable' event sponsore[...]