- Encourage children to speculate on the reasons why things happen or how things work.
- In conversation highlight technology in aspects of nature, eg encouraging models of birds showing purposes and functions of wing feathers, body feathers, beaks, feet reflecting differences of different kinds of birds.
- Support children to coordinate actions to use technology, for example, call a telephone number or create a video recording.
- Teach and encourage children to click on different icons to cause things to happen in a computer program.
- Talk to children about their actions, and support children to understand different purposes of different technologies.
- Retrieve content and use to facilitate discussions, allowing children to recall trips/ past events to enable them to connect to their wider community.
- Discuss fiction and non-fiction, real and imaginary.
- Discuss people and places they encounter and whether they are real, pretending/acting or computer-generated.
