Science at Home with Bayer

For more than a year, people all over the world have been navigating our new, often difficult “normal” life, which has been provoking a lot of extra stress – for both, adults and children. But are kids equipped with the right tools to manage these new emotional and mental challenges, and do they even understand how to communicate about what they are feeling? In this edition of Science at Home, we join 11-year-old Austin So as he learns how to identify signs of stress and takes steps to boost and protect his mental health.

Every day your body is exposed to thousands of germs, but you don’t always get sick from them. Why? Because you have a superpower that you might not know about! Inside your body lives a coordinated team of germ fighters called the immune system. To be immune means to be protected, and your immune system works to protect you from invading germs (also known as pathogens) that could cause you harm.