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/).

Hoodie Hearing Activity

Hoodie Hearing Activity Card Headteacher of Startown Primary School, Mrs Teachem, narrowly avoided a collision with a pupil who stepped into the road in front of her car at the entrance to the school. “He couldn’t hear a thing!” exclaimed Mrs Teachem. “He didn’t even hear the horn with that hoodie over his ears. Perhaps I should ban hoodies.” Your challenge Is Mrs Teachem right? Find out if hoods and other ear coverings make it a lot more difficult to hear. Discuss Have you ever worn a hood? Did it make it difficult to hear? What other things might stop you hearing very well? How will you find out? Getting started You need hoods and/or a collection of things that might cover your ears. You need to think of something to listen to. You need to think of how to measure how well you can hear the sound.

Test your ideas Will you need to make sure that your test is fair? Will the direction and distance the sound travels from make a difference? What about the number of layers? Share your ideas Discuss what happens if you wear something over your ears. Did everybody find the same result? You could do a ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ chart to show your results. How could you use your results to improve road safety? Extra things to do What other senses do you use when you cross the road? Find out how wearing a hoodie might affect these. Find out if wearing music earphones affects your safety. How do people who are deaf keep safe on the roads? British Science Association Registered Charity No. 212479 and SC039236