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/).

Discus Dilemma Activity

Discus Dilemma Activity Card Mr Cleanup, Startown Primary School’s caretaker, is very excited. He thinks that a tiny UFO has landed on the playground. Local detective, Miss Terry, has come to investigate. “It’s not a spaceship,” she tells an embarrassed Mr Cleanup, “it’s a discus!” Now the children want a discus-throwing competition, but they’ve only one discus. Can you help? Your challenge Design and make a discus to be used in the competition. Discuss Have you seen a discus before? Why do you think it’s shaped like that? What might make a good discus?

Getting started 2/2 Think about the shape of a discus. How can you use the materials to make a discus? You can make more than one discus to try out different designs. Test your ideas How will you decide which is the best discus? What is the best way to throw your discus? What makes a difference to how the discus flies? You could record your results in a table like this one: Distance travelled Discus #1 Discus #2 Discus #3 Share your ideas You can create a labelled design for your discus or write a report for the Star Town News about what happened during your discus-throwing competition. Extra things to do Find out what materials are used to make a real discus. What is the furthest an athlete has thrown a discus? How long ago was the first discus-throwing competition? British Science Association Registered Charity No. 212479 and SC039236