Season 3

Maddie learns how skyscrapers are made and visits a bird sanctuary to see how birds fly.

Maddie learns what happens to food in our bodies when we eat it and why it’s important to eat a variety of different foods from different food groups. We find out which foods give us energy to move around, which help our bodies grow and repair, and which foods we get vitamins and minerals from. Then Maddie visits a meringue factory where she discovers how the proteins in egg whites work to make the meringue. She uses her special slow-motion camera to see how the giant whisks mix the egg whites with sugar, so that the mixture turns glossy and thick. And we see how the meringue is cooked to make it crunchy on the outside and gooey in the middle.

Maddie is at the coast! She visits a red and white striped lighthouse and meets the lighthouse keeper right at the top. She goes inside to where the bulb is kept and finds out how all the reflective glass that surrounds it helps make the light stronger. Then she uses a special drone camera that flies out to sea! The drone camera shows us how strong the light bulb is because it needs to warn ships miles out to sea that there's shallow water or rocks nearby. Next, Maddie visits a factory where bath bombs are made to find out about the ingredients that make bath bombs fizz! She discovers why it’s called a chemical reaction. Maddie uses her special underwater camera to show us the fizzy bubbles that are made when the bath bomb is dropped into water.

Today, Maddie is having fun by the beach! She finds out how waves are formed far out to sea when the wind blows and how some of them are made by the tides. She visits a surfing centre and takes to the waves on a surfboard. Maddie attaches her special cameras to the surfboard to learn how the energy underneath the wave can carry us along and how when it reaches the shore the wave slows down and breaks. Next, Maddie visits a dairy farm and finds out how milk from cows is made into ice cream. She uses a special thermometer to show how cold the ice cream mixture is when it comes out of the batch freezer and turns from a liquid to a solid.

In today’s episode, Maddie explores how our body works. She visits a children’s hospital to find out what happens when we have an X-ray. She meets James, who has broken his arm, as well as a radiographer. We see what happens when we have an X-ray and learn how the X-ray machine takes a picture of the bones inside our body before saving the picture on a special machine. Next, Maddie heads to a factory where they make socks in lots of different colours out of yarn. Maddie uses her slow-motion camera to give us a special view when the sock-turning machine sucks in the socks and flips them out the right way around. They look like wiggly snakes!

In this episode, Maddie is in the garden. She finds out how spiders make webs using silk, meets a spider expert and learns that different spiders make different types of webs. Using her slow-motion camera, Maddie shows how a garden spider makes an orb web. We learn that the structure is built in a special way so that it is strong and sticky but light. Next Maddie heads to a factory where watering cans are made. We learn how a watering can starts out as a lot of flat metal shapes. Maddie shows us how they are bent and moulded into all the different parts. She uses her special slow-motion camera to show how electromagnetic paint is sprayed and how it sticks to the metal watering can, making it smooth and shiny.