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Interview with Sarah Boden - Primary Schools Programme Manager

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BS: Does it ever bother you that children might go away thinking that something is magic rather than understanding?

SB: yes, yes. That's, that's, if that's what we've made them think then we've - that's I don't - I'm not happy about that.

BS: Why not?

SB: Because that's - the nature of science is that we're looking to explain things. We can - I think it's fair to say "Oh wow that's interesting, I wonder why that happened" and just leave it at that but not to - for them to think we've used a magic trick. And young children can think that about science and - it's something that we try to be quite careful about. It's hard isn't it because some of the effects that we're using with PowerPoint and everything you know, we're not explaining how we're doing all of that so - um - no I I don't like that. ((laughs))