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Teaching Quantum - overview document

This document accompanies a set of resources designed to help teach quantum physics to post-16 students. There are three groups of experiments that make up the full suite:

A set of 50 kits were developed by STEM Learning and funded by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology to be distributed to schools via the Stimulating Physics Network. For schools who have not received a kit, the guide describes a kit list which could be purchased through scientific suppliers to enable the kit to be replicated. 

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