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CREST Star Useless Umbrella - supporting slides

3+
These supporting slides accompany the Useless Umbrella Star challenge, providing colourful visuals and key instructions to help you run this activity with your learners. Useless Umbrella is designed to get children thinking about materials and their water resistance. Can they help Cosmic and Gem find something suitable to fix Aunt Stella's umbrella?
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Get children thinking about the properties of materials

Relatable everyday context

Slides provide key visuals and information to support non-readers