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Recycle Week 2024: CREST Awards & STEM Activities
October 17th 2024

Recycle Week 2024: CREST Awards & STEM Activities

Celebrate Recycle Week!

Recycle Week 2024 takes place between the 14th and 20th of October 2024. This year’s theme ‘Rescue Me’ focuses on rescuing recyclable items from heading to the rubbish bin.

Recycle Week is a celebration of recycling, organised by WRAP via Recycle Now. The aim of the week is to encourage the public to recycle more, by demonstrating the benefits of recycling items from all around the home.

– Official WRAP Information & Resources

There are many ways to get involved with the campaign, including:

Online Resources

Recycling with BBC Bitesize
BBC Teach: Recycle Week – School Assembly Ideas

Scroll down for more recycling activities & resources for your class, club or community group.

CREST AWARDS

CREST is a STEM enrichment programme for young people that inspires, enables and rewards open-ended project work. CREST has a phenomenal library of FREE resources for all ages along with accredited resources from partnering organisations.

CREST offers an array of environmental projects for both primary & secondary students.

CREST Superstar (Age 7-11)
A Special New Tree (Green Spaces)
Recycle Re-use
Tree Trouble

CREST Bronze Award (Age 11+)
Waste Free Lunch

CREST Discovery Award
Sustainable Solutions
Enrich My Classroom – Design a classroom of the future that promotes recycling!

More Environmental Projects
Climate Science Resource Pack
Clean Growth

Practical Action

Practical Action have a range of Global Project Ideas & environmental activities. Global Project Ideas provide an excellent starting point for pupils wanting to do a project based on Global issues, these can be completed as part of the CREST Awards Scheme.

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Visit our Recycling board on Pinterest!

We’ve gathered together hundreds of projects, ideas and activities along with lesson plans, posters & classroom ideas.

All of our boards are categorised by projects, events & seasons.

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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