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Primary 4 / Year 4 Science Curriculum

Alpha Brain teaches Primary 4 (Year 4) science through 16 dojos and 47 short narrated levels, for children aged 8–9.

Coverage spans Living Things, Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space and Our Environment.

Every level is matched to both the Nigerian NERDC primary curriculum and the British Key Stage 2, and plays in a browser or the installed app.

Class (Nigeria)
Primary 4
Year group (UK)
Year 4
Stage (UK)
Key Stage 2
Age
8–9
Dojos
16
Levels
47
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Primary 4 Science topics

Living Things

  • Animal Kingdom

    Groups & habitats

    2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Sort these animals into their groups.”

  • Healthy Eating

    Food groups & diet

    3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “At home, Ada says yam is a healthy food. Is she right?”
    • “At home, Ada says tomato is a healthy food. Is she right?”
    • “Ngozi is shopping at the market. Which one is the healthy choice?”

  • Inside My Body Dojo

    Teeth, bones, heart & lungs

    4 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Aisha chews rice with the flat teeth at the back of the mouth. What job do molars do?”
    • “Chidi needs to tear a piece of roasted chicken. Which teeth do this job?”
    • “Ngozi puts on a helmet before riding a bicycle. Which bone protects Ngozi's brain?”

  • Life Cycle Dojo

    Seeds, animals & growing up

    3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Musa looks through a family photo album. Put these stages of growing up in order, starting with the baby.”
    • “Emeka learns about a crocodile. Does a crocodile lay eggs, or give birth to live young?”
    • “Ada's family photo shows a person at the teenager stage of life. What comes right after this stage?”

  • Food Chain Dojo

    Who eats what

    2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Chidi is building a food chain. Put these three living things in order, starting with the one that makes its own food.”
    • “Ngozi learns about a pig. Is a pig a herbivore, a carnivore, or an omnivore?”

Materials & Their Properties

  • Solid, Liquid, Gas

    States of matter

    2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Three of these are the same state. Which one is not a liquid?”
    • “Sort these into solid, liquid, and gas.”

Forces & Energy

  • Force Dojo

    Push, pull & gravity

    2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “True or false? A pull moves a thing away from you.”
    • “Sort these into pushes and pulls.”

  • Light Dojo

    Light & shadows

    2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Sort these into light sources and things that are not.”
    • “Emeka stands behind a wide tree trunk. Can his sister see him without a mirror?”

  • Sound Dojo

    How sound is made

    3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “A petrol generator rattles outside the house. Is the sound high or low?”
    • “A mosquito buzzes near your ear. Is the sound high or low?”
    • “Ada hears this: a pestle pounds yam in the mortar. She says it is a loud sound. Is she right?”

  • Spark Dojo

    Circuits & conductors

    4 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Can this give us electricity?”
    • “Which one can give us electricity?”
    • “Look at this circuit. Will the bulb light up?”

  • Magnet Dojo

    Magnetic & poles

    3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “At the market, Musa says a magnet will stick to a glass cup. Is he right?”
    • “Three of these are magnetic. Which one is not magnetic?”
    • “Three of these are not magnetic. Which one is magnetic?”

  • Machine Dojo

    Levers, ramps & pulleys

    4 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Musa needs to open a bottle of soft drink quickly. Which tool helps him do this?”
    • “Chidi pushes a door shut. Is this a push, a pull, or a turn?”
    • “Chidi must move a box of yams up onto a truck. Should he lift it straight up, or roll it up a ramp?”

Earth & Space

  • Sky Dojo

    Day, night & sky

    3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Chidi says the Earth spins round and round all by itself. Is he right?”
    • “Three of these we see at night. Which one do we see in the day?”
    • “Sort these into what we see in the day and at night.”

  • Water Cycle Dojo

    Evaporation to rain

    4 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Which stage of the water cycle is shining here?”
    • “Wet clothes on the line become dry when the sun shines on them. Which stage is this?”
    • “Which stage is it when the water falls from the clouds as rain?”

  • Space Dojo

    Sun, moon & planets

    4 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Does a twinkling star in the night sky give out its own light?”
    • “Do we see Mercury because it makes its own light?”
    • “Bayo asks the teacher why we have day and night. What is the reason?”

Our Environment

  • Our Earth Dojo

    Keeping our environment healthy

    2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 4

    Questions at this level look like:

    • “Why should Musa not throw the sweet wrapper into the stream?”
    • “Why should Emeka not dump rubbish by the roadside?”

What a level is like

Every level is 10 questions long and takes a few minutes. Questions are read aloud in recorded narration rather than robotic text-to-speech, and answers are tapped, dragged or typed on a number pad rather than written, so a child who is still learning to read can play unaided.

Most dojos open with a short lesson before the questions start. Get one wrong and the level teaches the step you missed before showing the answer, and you can play the level again — the questions vary on each replay, so it is practice rather than memorising a fixed sheet. Levels are scored out of three stars.

Primary 4 Science questions parents ask

What does Alpha Brain cover in Primary 4 Science?
Alpha Brain teaches Primary 4 (Year 4) science through 16 dojos and 47 short narrated levels, for children aged 8–9. The topics are Animal Kingdom, Healthy Eating, Solid, Liquid, Gas, Force and 12 more, grouped under Living Things, Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space and Our Environment.
What is Primary 4 in the British system?
Primary 4 in Nigeria matches Year 4 in the UK, which sits in Key Stage 2, for children aged 8–9. Alpha Brain teaches both from the same science levels, so a family moving between the two systems keeps its progress.
Is the Primary 4 Science content aligned to the NERDC curriculum?
Yes. Every science dojo is tagged to a NERDC strand — at Primary 4 that is Living Things, Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space and Our Environment — and the same levels are matched to the British Key Stage 2 programme of study.
How many Science levels are there for Primary 4?
47 levels across 16 dojos at Primary 4 / Year 4, at 10 questions a level — about 470 questions. A level takes a few minutes, so it fits a school night.
How much does Alpha Brain cost?
Alpha Brain is free to play online — every dojo, every level, with narration. Ninja Pass is ₦1,500 a month, or ₦15,000 a year (two months free), and adds offline play, the parent progress report and up to three children. That covers all three subjects — Maths, English and Science — from Nursery 1 to Primary 6, not just Science.

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