Resources by CREST Awards
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Bronze award: How strong is the sun’s UV radiation?
A student sheet suggesting an investigation into the relationship between UV strength and temperature.
Bronze award: Introduce a ‘waste-free’ lunch programme
The idea of this project is for students to introduce a school lunch programme to their school or college and encourage pupils to use recycled or re-usable packaging for their lunches. Students produce a leaflet or poster presentation explaining why it’s important to cut down on waste and suggest types of reusable...
Bronze award: machine learning
This CREST Bronze level resource pack focuses on Machine Learning, with a variety of project ideas enabling students to investigate machine learning in a real-life context, exploring innovative ideas and solutions for the future, such as:
- Digital technologies supporting healthcare
- Artificial...
Bronze award: protection and prevention
This resource consists of three projects:
- Research: mosquitos and disease
Students think about which diseases are spread by mosquitos, how they are spread, what can be done to control the spread, and what treatments are available for people who contract the diseases....
Bronze award: quality control
Students imagine they work in the quality control department of a company that manufactures pre-packaged consumer products. Their job is to sample packages to check that they contain the right mass or volume of product. If not, the filling machines need adjusting. They will need to c...
Bronze Award: Squeaky Clean
These materials look at three possible projects that relate to household cleaning products:
* Communications project - students gather information about cleaning products, compare them and explain how they are suitable for different cleaning problems.
* Practical project - students investigate how...
Bronze award: the perfect cup of tea
In this project, students carry out some experiments to work out how to make their perfect cup of tea. Then they write a standard procedure so that other people can make tea...
Bronze Award: Triathlon
These materials look at three possible projects that relate to a wet suit used in open water swimming during a triathlon:
* Communications project - students gather information about the materials wetsuits are made from and explain what features make them suitable for athletes.
* Practical project -...
Bronze award: which material is the strongest?
In this project, students test the strength of samples from different items of clothing to find out which material is the strongest. One way to see which material is strongest would be to hang weights from it until it breaks, with the one that holds the most weight being the strongest.