Information For Parents and Teachers

Doctor Dot is part of a collection of Welsh language websites for children aged 5-7. Other resources for Key Stage 1 include:

Enjoy three fun science games with Doctor Dot. The games teach you about forces, materials and habitats in an exciting and entertaining way.

Click on the book to release Doctor Dot who will introduce each game with a story, a poem or a song. Click on the arrow to skip the introduction.

There are three games:

Syrcas Chwain (Flea Circus)
These are games about forces. Help the fleas by choosing the right amount of force that is needed for them to complete their tricks successfully.

Gwylwyr Natur (Nature Rangers)
These are activities that teach you about the habitats of plants and animals. Discover which creatures and plants live in different habitats.

Y Twtiaid (The Tooters)
These games are about the properties of materials. Travel to Planet Twt to show the poor Twtiaid which materials they need to complete various tasks.

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Syrcas Chwain

These are games that teach you about forces. Help the fleas complete their tricks involving cannons, custard pies, trapezes and trampolines successfully! Your task is to choose the correct amount of force needed to propel them each time.

These games show how varying the strength of a force (pushing) can change the speed and direction of a moving object.

You are allowed to experiment and make mistakes but you must succeed three times and win three fleas in order to complete a game.

As the difficulty level increases, you are asked to control an increasing number of variables in the game.

Y Tŵr Chwain Anhygoel (The Amazing Flea Tower)

Help the flea land on the target.

The first flea will jump from the platform and land on the see saw to propel the other flea towards the target or flea stack.

Chwifio'r Chwannen Chwareus (The Fabulous Flying Flea)

Help the flea hit the target when it's fired from a cannon.

Y Chwyrligwgan Cwstard (The Custard Pie Carousel)

Help the flea hit the targets with its custard pies!

Y Trapîs Chwain (The Flea Trapeze)

Help the fleas do their tricks on the flying trapeze.

Y Ffinalé Mawreddog (The Grand Finale)

This a chance to watch all the fleas' tricks again.

Drag the coloured stars you have won to the spaces on the film strip. Click on the camera icon to watch a film that is a collection of clips from all the games.

> Play Syrcas Chwain

Gwylwyr Natur

These activities teach you about habitats. Discover which creatures and plants live where as the seasons change. Watch video clips, play the habitat game and create a mask of your favourite animal.

Map activity
Click on the areas on the map to see the creatures and plants that live there in the spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Watch a short video about a creature or plant by clicking on it.

Select a season by clicking on the cloud icon at the bottom of the screen - the creatures and plants change from season to season.

Click on the question mark icon to get help from Fflwff, the owl.

Habitat game
Click on the paw icon to play.

The game challenges you to choose the ideal habitat for the animal you selected.

You must consider a number of factors that affect the habitat that an animal selects.
• where it lives
• the type of home it makes
• the food it eats
• the type of animal which would live near them.

Answers can change according to the season.

There are three levels.

Make mask
After completing a game, click on the bear mask icon that appears at the top of the screen.

Click on the different parts and drag them to the screen to create a mask.

You can print your mask.

> Play Gwylwyr Natur

Y Twtiaid

This game teaches you about materials and their properties. Help the Twtiaid who have forgotten what are the characteristics of the materials on their planet. Choose the correct materials for the different tasks - or trick the Twtiaid into using the wrong ones to see their funny response!

As the game increases in difficulty, you will be given more options to choose from, and the differences between materials will become less obvious.

If your answer is incorrect, the Twtiaid will tell you why you shouldn't have chosen that material for that particular task.

There are two types of games:

Challenge game (Gêm sialens)
Decide if you are going to be good (da) and give correct answers or naughty (powld) and give incorrect answers.

Use the red and blue arrows to place the star where you want it on the line. Your challenge is to aim for the score you have chosen by giving the right number of correct and incorrect answers. As you play the game, the naughty/good indicator moves to the left when you answer incorrectly and moves to the right when you answer correctly.

The material you choose in each part of the game will be added to your collection which can be seen at the top of the screen.

Explore game (Gêm chwilota)
In this type of game, the good/naughty indicator starts in the middle and moves as you give correct or incorrect answers to the puzzles.

There are three levels in both types of game.

Easy (Hawdd)
Choose between two materials in each puzzle. There are six puzzles to solve and six materials to collect.

Medium (Canolig)
Choose between three materials in each puzzle. There are eight puzzles to solve and eight materials to collect.

Hard (Anodd)
Choose between four similar materials in each puzzle. There are eight puzzles to solve and eight materials to collect.

Colouring activity
After completing a level choose a picture and use the materials you have collected to colour it in.

> Play Y Twtiaid