Grade 4Science and Technology

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 4 Science and Technology curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Living Things and their EnvironmentPlants, animals and the human body: what is alive, how it is grouped, and what happens to food after it is eaten.3 topics·133 questions

  • Plants

    3 skills

    Sorting plants into groups, the parts of a plant and what each part does, and why some plants are useful.

  • Animals

    3 skills

    Grouping animals by how they feed, move and are built, and what they need to stay alive.

  • Human Digestive System

    3 skills

    The path food takes through the body, the parts it passes, and what each of them does to it.

2MatterWhat things are made of, what happens to what we throw away, and why water is worth saving.3 topics·140 questions

  • Properties of Matter

    3 skills

    Solids, liquids and gases, what tells them apart, and what floats and what sinks.

  • Management of Solid Waste

    4 skills

    What happens to rubbish, sorting it, and what reduce, reuse and recycle look like in a real home.

  • Water Conservation

    4 skills

    Where water comes from, how it is wasted, and practical ways a household saves it.

3Force and EnergyPushes and pulls, light and heat: the three things that make everything else move, show up or warm through.3 topics·127 questions

  • Force and its Effect

    4 skills

    What a push and a pull do, friction, and why some things are easier to move than others.

  • Light

    4 skills

    How light travels, what makes a shadow, and what happens when light meets a mirror.

  • Heat

    4 skills

    How heat moves through a material, which materials carry it and which do not, and how heat is used safely.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 4 Science and Technology curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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400 Grade 4 Science and Technology questions in the bank, covering every topic on this page.