Staying Alive

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Duration: 15:00 minutes
No Subtitles
Published: 28 04 2006
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Part of the series The Blue Dragon

Summary

The Blue Dragon follows the story of four real animals and a dragon that embark on a journey. Through their adventures together, the animals learn about science in the world.

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The first programme introduces the main characters: Twiggy the bear, Chisel the woodpecker, Red the vixen and Jack the beaver.

The animals find an egg, which hatches into a blue dragon. They call her Cinders, because she blows flames and burns things to cinders. The characters inspect the blue dragon and realise that Cinders needs feeding.

No one knows what blue dragons eat, so they decide to find out. The animals also think about what it means to be alive and what the blue dragon will look like when it grows up.

The programme explores:

Reasons why something is alive or not alive
The stages of animal life cycles from babies to adult
What animals need to stay alive
Dragons in other cultures, including the role of dragons in the Chinese New Year

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