Knowledge and Understanding of the World
This area of children's development covers:
- Finding out about the natural world and how it works;
- Finding out about the made world and how it works;
- Learning how to choose - and use - the right tool for a task;
- Learning about computers, how to use them and what they can help us to do;
- Starting to put together ideas about past and present and the links between them;
- Beginning to learn about their locality and its special features; and
- Learning about their own and other cultures.





