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Celebrate World Ocean Day with CREST!
World Ocean Day takes place on the 8th of June, celebrate with your students with sensational STEM projects from CREST!
You can download free CREST and CREST accredited resources that will encourage your children to think about water, health, the environment and our planet. These activities allow learners to work like scientists, researchers, engineers and designers to investigate and explore their own project ideas.
The activities below are aimed at ages 5-19.
CREST Awards Resources
Star Challenges (Ages 5-7)
Brilliant Bubbles – Liquids, gases & bubbles
Muddy Mess – Washing materials
Plant Detectives – Where plants grow
Sniffly Sneezes – Absorbency of materials
Useless Umbrella – Water resistance
Accredited Projects:
Plastic Oceans
Superstar Challenges (Ages 7-11)
A Hole in my Bucket
Colorado Brain Stain
Crafty Rafts
World Around You Challenges
DNA / World Around You Challenge Pack (Ages 7-11)
Contamination Detectives – thinking about how microbes spread
Accredited Projects:
Artylingua – Water filter challenge, Water slide challenge, Oil Spill Challenge
Plastic Oceans
Discovery Awards (Ages 10-14)
Stop the Spread
Sustainable Solutions
Accredited Projects:
Great Tideaway Challenge
Practical Action
Bronze Awards (Age 11+)
Grand Challenges
Bath Bombs
Monitoring Acid Rain
Quality Control
Treatments for Dehydration
Worldwide Washing
Monitoring Acid Rain
Accredited Resources:
Canal & River Trust – Canal & River Maintenance
Practical Action – Environment & Water projects
Global Action Plan UK – Water Explorer Challenges
Royal Society of Chemistry – Water: Global Experiment with Hydrogels
Silver Awards (Age 14+)
Grand Challenges
Clean Growth
Climate Science
Monitoring Water Pollution
Re-hydration Therapies
Worldwide Washing
Accredited Resources:
Practical Action
Gold Awards (16+)
Worldwide Washing (Water)
Accredited Resources:
Practical Action
Global Project Ideas
Regreen the Desert
Ditch the Dirt
Stop the Spread
Floating Garden Challenge
Beat the Flood
Each project idea comes with a teacher’s pack, student brief and a PowerPoint presentation.
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