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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: make your own lipstick
In this project, students make their own lipstick or lip gloss and investigate how lipsticks are coloured, carrying out tests to compare their lipstick to a shop-bought one . They consider the properties they want to test, such as resistance to water and cleaning products, and covering...
Crest silver award: Make and analyse pain relievers
In this project, students make their own aspirin or paracetamol and then test the purity of the pain-reliever and compare it to shop-bought. This covers titrations, chromatography and other analytical techniques.
Silver award: design the ultimate pizza box
Students investigate the best material for a pizza box, with possible tests including:
- Thermal conductivity - Design a test to see which materials keep a pizza the hottest.
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Silver award: design and build a disco light
How do the lights and sound at a nightclub coordinate together? The lights appear to flash in time to the beat, and change colour with the pattern of the sound. How is the signal from a sound source such as a CD player or DJ deck converted into a pattern of lights? In this project,...