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CREST Star Testing Timers - supporting slides

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These supporting slides accompany the Testing Timers Star challenge, providing colourful visuals and key instructions to help you run this activity with your learners. Testing Timers is designed to get children thinking about how sand timers work. Can they create their own sand timer that measures exactly one minute?
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Get children thinking about sand timers and measuring time

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Slides provide key visuals and information to support non-readers