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/).

Fossil Folly

Fossil Folly Organiser’s Card About the activity This activity is designed to get children thinking about dinosaurs. Dina Digg isn’t sure how to put together a dinosaur in the right way. Can the children help to work out the best orientation? Through this activity you will support your group to: • Investigate the strength and stability of dinosaur shapes • Think about why dinosaurs come in different shapes and sizes • Record and present their findings Kit list • Soft modelling clay • Art straws • Pipe cleaners • Cocktail or kebab sticks What to do 1. Introduce the activity using the story of Dina Digg. Ask the children what they know about dinosaurs, what do different dinosaurs look like? 2. Give out activity cards and equipment to the children. 3. Explain that they will be designing and making models of different dinosaur shapes. 4. Support children to design and build their models. Encourage the children to think about size, shape and weight. 5. Support the children to design and carry out tests on their models and to make their own records of their results. 6. Ask the children to present their findings to the rest of the group, they can be as creative in their presentation as they want.

Things to think about Children will explore the effect of changing the shape and size of body parts i.e. head, neck, legs, body, tail. They may just want to build dinosaurs that they know about. It is important that they are open-minded and try out different possible combinations of body shapes for strength and stability. This activity is not about classification, although it should help children to make connections between body shape, size, and lifestyles of dinosaurs. Keywords • Dinosaurs • Bones • Shapes Watch out! Remove the pointed ends of wooden sticks. British Science Association Registered Charity No. 212479 and SC039236