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/).

Goodbye Old Tree

Goodbye Old Tree Organiser’s Card About the activity This activity is designed to get children thinking about trees, and the different materials we can get from trees. The Treedwell local government want some ideas on what to do with in old tree once it dies. Can the children come up with any good ideas? Through this activity you will support your group to: • Research the possible uses of different parts of a tree and decide which they think are the most appropriate and interesting. • Create a story about the life of the tree. • Record and share their research and ideas. Kit list Access to the following will be helpful: • Paper • Pencils • Access to the internet What to do 1. Introduce the activity using the story. 2. Give out activity cards to the children. Encourage the children to think about all the things they know that are made from trees e.g. paper, wood, leaves, etc. 3. Support children to conduct their investigation and make their own records of their results. Encourage the children to do their own research using the internet or by reading books. Let them talk together about what they have found out. If children need help you could get them to look at how wood is used to help wild animals (e.g. bee, bird and bat boxes), or point them towards wooden items that could be used in the town (e.g. benches and sculptures made from wood) 4. Ask the children to present their findings to the rest of the group, they can be as creative in their presentation as they want. They could create a collage using the different tree parts or take bark or leaf rubbings.

Things to think about There is no right or wrong answer for this challenge Keywords • Trees • Nature • Recycling • Wood Find out more Show them art work made from leaves etc. Examples can be found at www.opalexplorenature.org/crest Help them find out more about how letting the wood rot supports biodiversity (e.g. the range of animals and plants that live in log piles). British Science Association Registered Charity No. 212479 and SC039236