Reception Science
Choose what you want to learn.
Explore Science
Look closely at animals, plants, weather and changes.
Understanding the World
Pick a topic to see its games.
For parents and teachers
Reception Science learning
Pick a topic to find the games available at this level. These activities offer selected practice, not complete curriculum coverage. Use your school’s teaching sequence and your child’s confidence to choose a starting point.
Curriculum connections
Grouped by topic, with the games that offer practice. Each game covers selected examples; use your school’s teaching sequence to choose suitable words and skills.
The Natural World
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants
Practise with:
- Animal or plant? — Is a ladybird an animal or a plant?
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter
Practise with:
- The four seasons — Lambs in spring, conkers in autumn: sort pictures into the four seasons in this free Reception science game.
- Melt or freeze? — Does an ice lolly melt or freeze on a hot day?