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CREST Awards
CREST Awards: Silver
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 your students through the Crest Award website: http://www.crestawards.org/
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Silver award: monitoring water pollution
Students investigate the effect of industry or agriculture on a water course, by comparing levels of pollution with those in an ‘unspoilt’ body of water. They will need to consider what form any pollution...
Silver award: how do fertilizers affect plant growth?
Despite the high rate of growth in rainforests the soil in these forests is poor in nutrients. The nutrients have been washed out of the soils by heavy rainfall. In this project, students are going to investigate how different kinds of compost and fertiliser affect the rate of growth of plants.
Silver award: make and test ceramic jewellery
For this project, students will use clay as their ceramic. They will design and shape beads and/or pendants to make a necklace or bracelet. They will investigate ways of finishing the clay – in other words, colouring it and protecting it. They will then carry out tests to see how strong their product is.
Silver award: how steady is your hand?
In this independent research project students investigate the properties of materials, electric circuits and electronic devices in order to design, build and test a device to measure the steadiness of someone’s hand ...
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| Subject(s) | Design and technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Science |
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| Age | 14-16 |
| Published | 2010 to 2019 |
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| Direct URL | https://www-dev.stem.org.uk/cxevqu |
