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.