Season 4

Live Lessons teams up with Dr Chris, Dr Xand and Dr Ronx for a special Operation Ouch! Science Live Lesson to learn all about the heart and how to keep it healthy.

BBC Teach joins forces with Winterwatch in this action-packed Live Lesson for 7-11-year-olds, to learn about birds, beak adaptations, food chains and food webs. Naomi Wilkinson joins Winterwatch host Chris Packham live at Wild Ken Hill in Norfolk and asks him questions sent in by schools. Rory Crawford and Shanequa Paris are live from a primary school, leading exciting activities with pupils to explain what food chains and food webs are. They also find out out how important birdwatching data is, and how to interpret it.

Blue Peter’s Mwaksy Mudenda and YouTuber Joe Tasker head to the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield for a gaming-themed Safer Internet Day Live Lesson. With help from a team of aspiring young video game developers, Mwaksy and Joe explore all things digital and develop their very own video game about internet safety. While working on their game, they find out about the worries young people have about online life, hear top tips on how to respond to common digital dilemmas and learn about the importance of security settings. As they complete each phase of their game development, they unlock internet safety advice videos from special guests.

Ben Shires and Konnie Huq are live from Batley Library in Yorkshire, for a fantastic World Book Day Live Lesson celebrating all things books and reading. Ben and Konnie explore different types of books. We also learn about genres, characters, settings and storylines from some amazing authors along the way, including Michael Rosen. Plus some famous faces fill us in on their favourite books! Throughout the programme, Ben, Konnie and a team of young helpers retell a famous story with an added twist.

Rhys Stephenson and Maddie Moate take over the Science Museum in London, with an out of this world forces Live Lesson for British Science Week! Our very own Live Lesson astronaut Frankie is stuck out in space after completing a mission to the moon, and needs the help of 7-11 year-olds everywhere to come back down to Earth. With help from a team of mission controllers, Rhys, Maddie and pupils watching need to use their knowledge of forces and explore gravity, friction and air resistance to design a landing module to bring our intrepid explorer safely back home. Along the way, we hear from real-life astronauts including Dr Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut in space and American astronaut Bob Hines who has recently returned from a NASA space mission.

BBC Teach has joined forces with the Eurovision Song Contest in this dazzling Live Lesson for 7- to 11-year-olds to learn how to express themselves through songwriting. Mobo winner YolanDa Brown will help children create their own Eurovision song, with the help of Tyler West and Lauren Layfield. From the historic stage of St George’s Hall in Liverpool, they will welcome the world to the host city, while getting songwriting tips from Eurovision legends such as Mae Muller, Alexander Rybak and Subwoolfer.