Circuits animation
Use this animation, to provide context for an investigation into what happens when there is more than one bulb in a circuit.
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Countdown to Christmas with our fun and engaging, curriculum-linked, interactive, science advent calendar featuring a 5-minute science activity and science-themed cracker joke and link to a resource for diving deeper, for each day of advent.
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