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/).

How Do You Drink Yours?

How Do You Drink Yours? Organiser’s Card About the activity This activity is designed to get children thinking about traditions and preferences around tea. Tea is a large part of many cultures in the world, including Britain, Russia, China and Japan. Can the children investigate the tea drinking culture in the UK and see if there are any patterns? Through this activity you will support your group to: • Learn about different tea drinking traditions from around the world. • Carry out a survey to find the most popular way of drinking tea. • Make decisions about how to present the information they gather. Kit list • Copies of the questionnaire from the ACTIVITY CARD or their own version of it • Clipboards • Pens and paper What to do 1. Introduce the activity using the stories about tea from around the world 2. Give out activity cards and equipment to the children. 3. Explain that they will be carrying out a survey to find out about how different people drink their tea. 4. Encourage them to add, delete or change questions from the questionnaire. 5. Help children list a wide range of people that they could ask. 6. Help them to think how they will gather the responses from the questionnaires into a tally chart and record their answers. 7. Support the children to carry out their survey 8. Ask the children to present their findings to the rest of the group, they can be as creative in their presentation as they want. Children will end up with a lot of data. They may need to produce tables, tick lists, tally charts or even spreadsheets to collect the results. They may be able to do some of this electronically. Alternatively, they can draw simple charts and tables of the data.

Things to think about Try to help children to look for patterns in their data, such as the difference between the preferences of young and old people, males and females etc. Keywords • Tea • Culture • Patterns • Trends • Data • Surveys. Watch out! It is important that children talk to an adult about the people they are going to interview. British Science Association Registered Charity No. 212479 and SC039236