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/).

Drifting Dandelions Help

Drifting Dandelions Help our Ravenous Rabbits! We had lots of dandelions around our school but Mr Cleanup, the caretaker has dug them all up! Now we don’t have any dandelions to give to our pet rabbits. Mrs Teachem, our headteacher, said that dandelions always come back. Do you think she’s right? Class 6 Activity Card Your challenge Help Class 6 to find out how dandelions spread their seeds and how they might help dandelions to come back to their school. Discuss Look closely at dandelion seed heads using magnifying glasses. Where are the seeds? What are they attached to? People sometimes call them parachutes. Why do you think that is? How far do you think the seeds from one flower can spread? How will you find out?

Getting started Find all the places where dandelions are growing nearby. Do they grow everywhere? How do seeds help them to spread? How do the seeds travel from one place to another? How far do they go? How will you record where they travel? You could try blowing at a dandelion head or holding it in the wind. Test your ideas Start investigating dandelions. Were your answers to the questions right? Share your ideas You could share photographs of dandelion investigations. Can you make a big model of a dandelion seed? Write a letter to Class 6 explaining how dandelions might come back. Extra things to do Find out why they are called dandelions. Find out about other ways that dandelions spread. Find out if people use dandelions for anything. Find out how other plants spread their seeds. British Science Association Registered Charity No. 212479 and SC039236