Resources by CREST Awards
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CREST Bronze Awards engage and inspire a wide range of students, and introduce them to the language and methods of project work. The flexible framework can be adapted for students of different ages and abilities.
Bronze projects:
• Involve a minimum of 10 hours of work on one project area
• Use...
CREST awards aim to encourage primary and secondary school students to undertake projects in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) related areas. Students' achievements can be recognised with awards at bronze, silver and gold levels.
These case studies describe how a range of schools have used...
Crest Gold Awards allow students to conduct real research. They are longer-term projects that require around 70 hours’ work and are typically completed by 16-19-year-olds. At Gold level, your students’ work should contribute something new to the scientific or technological community or to a particular field of...
CREST Awards help school students to undertake projects in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) related areas. Students' achievements can be recognised with awards at bronze, silver and gold levels. The resources in this section contain a series of project ideas that can be used to gain CREST Awards....
Crest Silver Awards stretch students and enrich their studies. They require around 30 hours of project work and are typically completed by 14-to-16-year olds. Your students will develop their own project idea and will gain experience of going through the scientific process.
You will need to register...
CREST Awards: thirty inspirational ideas
30 inspirational ideas for science gathers some of the best STEM ideas from the last 30 years, some of which are CREST projects, some of which are just great ideas. The main themes of the activities are:
- Interacting with researchers
- ...
Crest bronze award: Monitoring acid rain
In this Crest Award accredited project, students monitor levels of atmospheric sulfur dioxide and rainfall acidity in the school grounds. Suggested investigations include:
- Investigate various methods of measuring acidities between pH4 and pH7, to decide which method is most accurate.
- Compare...
Crest gold award: Monitoring lead pollution
In this project students will research ways of detecting low concentrations of lead and apply these to test samples from the environment. The objective is to investigate whether lead from petrol still persists at the roadside in order to determine whether there is a lurking legacy of lead.
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Crest gold award: Quality control of mixtures
This project encourages students to make contact with a business that performs quality control analyses, such as a public analyst who tests samples for the Trading Standards Department. Students will need to carry out both quantitative and qualitative analysis on tablets with a single active ingredient, such as...
CREST in a Day
By the British Science Association, the CREST awards help students to tackle science with an investigative approach. This case study describes how Rickmansworth School used a CREST activity day to engage and enthuse students in STEM subjects.
A total of 34 students participated in three different activities...