Book 1, is a complete gamified journey of the human body. Students can explore all their body organs and functions with an interactive augmented reality experience. Includes skeletal, nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory and urinary systems. The book is “hosted” by two friendly animated characters, Sarah and Adam whom interact with the reader to offer engaging insight.
Augmented Reality app included with each book
Grades 2-9
Taking their lead from young people’s questions, Dr Chris and Dr Xand Van Tulleken investigate what alcohol is, why so many people love to drink it, and why it can be dangerous. To reveal the science of what’s going on inside and outside the body when you drink alcohol, Dr Xand has one drink too many while Dr Chris performs a revealing range of medical tests on him. From being unable to drive a car safely, to getting angry and unruly with his twin brother, things are not looking pretty.
From the cruel common cold to shocking smallpox, we cough up the disgusting details of snot, sneezes, and viruses.
Lucy arrives at the studio and really isn’t very well. The show starts but, pretty soon, things are going wrong again! Professor McTaggart takes over from Mark to present the show.
Lovely icky red blood. What is it and why do we need it? How does it transport important things around the body?
Bob the robot just has his first aid badge to get so that he can go to the robot jamboree. The trouble is he hates blood. Mark is stopped just in time by blood expert Charles Drew as he is about to give someone a blood transfusion from a dog!
What happens to our bodies in space? Can we live on other planets? Who invented the telescope and how can we make one at home?
Mark receives a letter from the head of the channel saying that he is going to be sacked if anything else goes wrong on the show! Lucy, Bob, and Professor McTaggart try and make sure that, for once, everything goes smoothly. Everything seems to be going well until legendary astrologer Galileo arrives and is keen to start selling his telescopes… Lucy is outraged and decides to teach him a lesson!
The Doctors head into the lab with the Sphinctermatic 8.0 to deomstrate how two rings of muscle help you control an important bodily function.
In Operation Takeover, the Doctors discover the importance and difficulty of being a hospital hairdresser.
During Ouch & About On Call, Dr. Chris explains why the doctors had to cut open a girl’s broken arm to fix it and how your appendix works, while Dr. Xand explains why your muscles get tired when you’re exercising.
Dr. Chris goes to the park to investigate the many species of mosquitos that live there and see if any of them are carriers of disease.
In Accident & Emergency, one patient needs surgery to repair his broken wrist and another patient has a painful and itchy eye.
The Doctors head into the lab to demonstrate how your cranium and the cerebrospinal fluid in your skull protects your brain.
In Operation Takeover, the Doctors discover the importance and difficulty of being a hospital receptionist.
In the Ouch Patients segment, we have followed four children along their daily lives throughout the season to learn what it’s like to be a regular hospital outpatient. In this episode we check in with Millie as she has her weekly injection that helps ease the pain of her polyarticular arthritis, and then we catch up with Bolu as she shows us how she deals with the pain caused by sickle cell anaemia.
The Doctors show us the proper first aid for someone who is having a serious allergic reaction.
In Accident & Emergency, one patient sprained his leg on a trampoline and another patient stuck a fake diamond up his nose.
The Doctors head into the lab to demonstrate where tears come from and what the different types of tears do.
In Operation Takeover, the Doctors discover the importance and difficulty of being a lifeboat crew member.
During Ouch & About On Call, Dr. Chris explains what a pacemaker is for and what a ureteropelvic stricture is, while Dr. Xand explains why fizzy drinks are bad for you.
The Doctors investigate how a humanoid robot is helping children with autism spectrum disorder learn how to decipher facial expressions.
In Accident & Emergency, one patient has a busted lip and grazed shoulder after a scooter accident and another patient chopped her hand with a craft knife.
Dr. Chris and Dr. Xand show us some of their favourite segments from past episodes.
The Doctors head into the lab with a contortionist and then outside with a crane to show us how flexible and strong our tendons are.
In Operation Takeover, the Doctors discover the importance and difficulty of being a member of an air ambulance team.
In the Ouch Patients segment, we have followed four children along their daily lives throughout the season to learn what it’s like to be a regular hospital outpatient. In this episode we check in for the final time with Maisie, Kaden, Millie, and Bolu to see how their hospital visits have helped them.
The Doctors demonstrate the proper first aid for someone who has been rescued from drowning.
In Accident & Emergency, one patient has been airlifted to the hospital after falling on his neck during a rugby game and another patient with brittle bone disease has a sore hip.
In this special episode of Operation Ouch!, Dr Chris and Dr. Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War, where medics and doctors had to treat things like broken bones, trench foot, and body lice.
The Doctors also look at how maggots were used to treat wounds, meet a paralympian runner who swaps her awesome blade for a WWI-era leather leg, and then set up a massive experiment to show you how soldiers’ bodies had to cope with the intense pressure from huge explosions.