Secondary project briefs (ages 11+)

Bronze Awards are typically completed by students aged 11+. They complete a ten-hour project which is a perfect introduction to STEM project work. Over the course of the project, teams of students design their own investigation, record their findings, and reflect on their learnings. This process gives students a taste of what it is like to be a scientist or engineer in the real-world.

Silver Awards are typically completed by students aged 14+ over thirty hours. Project work at Silver level is designed to stretch your students and enrich their STEM studies. Students direct the project, determining the project’s aim and how they will achieve it. They carry out the project, record and analyse their results and reflect on the project and their learnings. All Silver projects are assessed by CREST assessors via our online platform.

Gold Awards are typically completed by students aged 16+ over seventy hours. Students’ projects are self-directed, longer term and immerse them in real research. At this level, we recommend students work with a mentor from their chosen STEM field of study. All Gold projects are assessed by CREST assessors via our online platform. There are more CREST approved resources that have been developed by our partners and providers specific to your region.

There are more CREST approved resources that have been developed by our partners and providers specific to your region.

Find out how to build practical CREST projects into secondary science lessons using our free teacher guidance pack. Supporting this guidance are easy-to-use, free-to-download mapping workbooks, which match individual Bronze, Silver and Gold CREST Award projects with each area of the secondary science curricula for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You can download and save your own copy of the relevant mapping workbook via the following links:

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All SuperStar challenges

The activities in this pack have been selected from our library of CREST SuperStar challenges. Children need to complete eight challenges to achieve a CREST SuperStar Award. If you want, you can mix and match challenges from different packs, as long as children complete eight SuperStar challenges. This resource is published under an Attribution - non-commercial - no derivatives 4.0 International creative commons licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Outdoor Gym R GYM

Outdoor Gym R GYM Activity Card You’ve been sent a letter: Dear Investigators, Not enough people are keeping fit in our towns, so we would like your help to do something about it. We need you to think of great ways for people of all ages to exercise outdoors. For example, they could do leg lifts sitting on a park bench. We bet you have lots more ideas! You could make a guide called ‘Outdoors and Active’ to help them. Looking forward to seeing your ideas. B. Fitt B Fitt Your challenge Come up with some great exercise ideas using parts of your local area to create an outdoor gym.

Discuss You could find out: What kind of exercises do people like to do? Which muscles are used in different activities? What things can you do to improve your stamina? Go outside and explore your local area. What do you see? What could be used to do exercises? Don’t forget that lots of the things we do every day are great exercise. Make a list of all the different activities you can do outside. OUTDOOR GYM How can you make sure they are done safely? Try out some of your ideas OUTDOOR GYM Getting started Some of your fellow investigators have come up with a few ideas to get you started: You’ll need: Camera to record ideas for your outdoor gym Pencils and paper to write down ideas Computer and books for researching ideas Why not record your thoughts and findings in a grid like this? What we can use in our outdoor gym Type of exercise we can do How it helps to keep us fit You could also start with a survey like this one: Ask people what they think about your ideas for an outdoor gym. Here are some questions to help you. Which ideas for an outdoor gym look most interesting? Which exercises do you think could be improved? Can you think of any more things we could use as part of our outdoor gym? What other questions can you ask? Some fellow investigators have had a few ideas to help you along We could sit on a bench to do leg lifts. We could use a step for doing step-ups. We could use the outside edge of the play area as a running track. We could use the lines on the paving stones for doing long strides. We could get someone to paint hop-scotch and other jumping and hopping games on the playground We could try digging in the garden. What do you think?