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World Ocean Day: CREST Resources
June 06th 2023

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 Awardsall 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 OrganisationAll 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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