What on Earth! Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine, published in partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the UK’s fastest-growing children’s magazine, helping curious kids fall in love with reading, knowledge and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from space, animals and the natural world, to history, machines and inventions – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from air guitars to… the Slinky!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

Eureka! • The latest astonishing discoveries, inventions and scientific breakthroughs.

How to chat… HORSE • Horses often communicate using their bodies and ears. But they can also be very talkative. If you’re keen to have a chat with a stallion, here are a few phrases that might come in useful.

WORD UP! • THIS MONTH: Codes and ciphers!

INTO THE DEEP • From sun-dappled shallows to pitch-black trenches, the ocean is split into five distinct zones by depth. Each teems with extraordinary habitats and creatures, specially adapted to survive as light fades, pressure rises and temperatures plunge. Dive with us from the sparkling surface to the Mariana Trench, the very bottom of this mysterious underwater world…

MAP IT

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 12-page activity section, you will find quizzes to do, puzzles to solve and fun activities to try. And don’t worry if you get stuck – all the answers are on page 36.

EYE DON'T BELIEVE IT! • Amazing optical illusions that trick your brain…

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY UP CLOSE! • Take a look in and around ‘Lady Liberty’, one of the most iconic symbols of the USA!

WE ARE ALL ANIMALS • Humans are animals, too! Join us as we explore the amazing ways we are just like them.

THINK DIFFERENT! • Original people who changed the world.

KIDS IN NUMBERS…

THE BIG QUESTIONS

Would you like to be a national quiz champion? • Read on to find out how you and your school could star at this year’s What on Earth! National Schools Quiz…

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Jokes & Riddles • Send your name, age and favourite joke to our jokes editor May at jokes@whatonearthmag.com If your joke is featured in a future issue of the magazine, you will WIN a copy of Secret FACTopia!