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Science for Children of All Ages.

Name That Part

Put a bird together from the bones out, and watch it fly away.

How it works

A bird, built from the inside out

Three phases in order — the skeleton, then the organs, then the feathers. Nothing is timed and nothing can be got wrong; every piece goes where it belongs and tells you what it is on the way.

  1. 1Start with the bones

    The bird is a ghost of itself and seventeen bones wait in the tray. Tap one and it flies to where it belongs and lands in colour. You cannot put it in the wrong place.

  2. 2Then what is inside

    Tap an organ and it lights up where it sits. Most of them are nothing like ours: air flows one way through a bird's lungs, there are no teeth, and the voice box is not in the throat.

  3. 3Then the coat goes on

    Twenty-eight tracts of feathers across three drawings — the side, the back and one spread wing — because one view cannot show them all. The rows are the lesson.

  4. 4Each phase opens the next

    The skeleton has to be finished before the organs will open, and the organs before the feathers. Finish all three and the bird flies away.

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