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Tool: Map CREST Awards to the Secondary Curriculum
The British Science Association (BSA) offers a free resource that maps practical CREST projects to the science curriculum, helping teachers across the UK to embed interactive STEM learning within lessons.
Entitled Investigative Practical Science in the Curriculum: Making it Happen, this mapping resource is an essential tool for any secondary science teacher looking to rejuvenate their lessons with open-ended, extended investigative STEM projects.
Supporting this guidance are easy-to-use, free-to-download mapping workbooks, which match individual Bronze, Silver and Gold CREST Award projects with each area of the secondary science curricula for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
CREST Awards provide a framework that supports all students, not just future scientists, to leave school with skills and confidence, whatever their career choices. Learners can lead their own project, and develop transferable skills such as observation, problem-solving, teamwork, reasoning and communication.
Find out more and download your mapping resource and workbook here!
CREST Awards
CREST helps young people aged 5-19 to become independent and reflective learners through enquiry-based project work. CREST Awards can be run in schools, clubs or at home and are flexible and cost-effective. With no set timetable, projects can start whenever you want, and take as long as you need.
CREST Bronze Award: 10 hours in total
CREST Silver Award: 30 hours in total
CREST Gold Award: 70 hours in total
CREST Discovery Day: Can be completed in a day (5 hours equivalent)
If you have any questions about secondary-level CREST, or if you are a teacher who can share your experience of running CREST Awards during lesson time, please contact: [email protected].
As North West Regional CREST Support Organisation, All About STEM (All About Futures) 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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