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World Ocean Day: CREST Resources
Celebrate World Ocean Day with your students on the 8th of June with sensational STEM projects from CREST!
Encourage your children to think about the importance of water, sustainability, sanitation, health and our planet by downloading free CREST activities. Your learners can work like real scientists, researchers, engineers and designers to investigate and explore their own ideas (ages 5-19).
CREST Awards Resources
Star Challenges (5-7)
Useless Umbrella – Water resistance
Brilliant Bubbles – Liquids, gases & bubbles
Plant Detectives – Where plants grow
Sniffly Sneezes – Absorbency of materials
Muddy Mess – Washing materials
Accredited Projects:
Plastic Oceans
Superstar Challenges (7-11)
Crafty Rafts – making a raft that floats
Colorado Brain Stain – discussing the use of fluoride in drinking water
A Hole in my Bucket – materials, liquids & testing methods
DNA / World Around You Challenge Pack (7-11)
Contamination Detectives – thinking about how microbes spread
Accredited Projects:
Plastic Oceans
Discovery Awards (10-14)
Stop the Spread
Sustainable Solutions
Discovery Awards are typically completed by 10-14 year olds, students work collaboratively on a five hour project or challenge in self-managed groups.
Accredited Projects:
Practical Action
Bronze Awards
Grand Challenges
Bath Bombs
Monitoring Acid Rain
Quality Control
Treatments for Dehydration
Worldwide Washing
Accredited Resources:
Canal & River Trust – Canal & River Maintenance (Guidance)
Practical Action
Global Action Plan UK – Water Explorer Challenges
Royal Society of Chemistry – Water: Global Experiment with Hydrogels
Silver Awards
Grand Challenges
Clean Growth
Climate Science
Monitoring Water Pollution
Re-hydration Therapies
Worldwide Washing
Accredited Resources:
Practical Action
Gold Awards
Grand Challenges
Worldwide Washing
Accredited Resources:
Practical Action
Practical Action Resources
The materials below are based around Practical Action’s work and are strongly linked to the Global Goals and/or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Practical Action project ideas can be used to gain CREST Awards, all are themed around water, sanitation, infectious diseases & hygiene:
Bronze – Dirt Detectives (research), Soap or Nope (practical ), and Clean Communications (communications)
Silver – What a Waste (research), Washing with Plants (practical), and Top Toilets (communications)
Gold – The Sanitation Divide (research), Extraordinary Extractions (practical), and Sanitation for All (communications).
Click here to find out more & download the resources
Practical Action also offers additional CREST activities that focus on water:
Global Project Ideas
NEW: Regreen the Desert
Ditch the Dirt
Stop the Spread
Floating Garden Challenge
Beat the Flood
Visit the CREST Resource Library
World Ocean Day: Official Website
As North West Regional CREST Support Organisation, All About STEM promote CREST Awards across the region and point schools & clubs to the support they need to run this amazing scheme. CREST Awards encourage students to work like scientists, researchers, engineers and designers to investigate and explore their own project ideas.
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