Discovery challenges (ages 10-14)


Typically completed by 10-14 year olds, students work collaboratively on a five hour project or challenge in self-managed groups. During the project, they use a CREST Discovery passport to record and reflect on their work. Afterwards, students communicate their findings as a group presentation.

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Enrich my Classroom Student Pack

  • Text
  • Magnetism
  • Coding
  • Enrich
  • Logic
  • Investigate
  • Seating
  • Magnetic
  • Materials
  • Workshop
  • Classroom
  • Apps
  • Electricity
  • Nanotechnology
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Seating risk assessment

Seating risk assessment Name Assessed by Date Average time seated (hours per day) Question Is the desk at a satisfactory height? For example, can you sit comfortably and write? Yes / No Comments Is there adequate leg room under the desk to sit comfortably? Is your chair fully adjustable (seat height, back height and back tilt)? Further comments 14

Research workshop: Magnetism Instructions Information can be stored by adding a magnetic property to a material. For example, credit cards store information on a magnetic strip and hard drives work by adding a magnetic property to a metal disc. This magnetism allows us to store information as a 1 or 0. A string of eight 1s and 0s can then be used to represent letters, numbers and other characters. This is known as binary code. Using this, you can write ‘a’ as 01100001 and ‘A’ as 01000001. Through this use of magnetism, miniaturisation of computer hard drives has been made possible. This has meant the development of technologies such as phones, tablets and cloud storage, where your data is stored remotely and accessible on multiple devices. Working in pairs, the aim of this workshop is to investigate how magnetic force is used to store information and how it has affected the development of technology. Part 1: Magnetic storage 1. Using the table provided write your first name in binary, using the metal object to represent a 1 and the plastic object to represent a 0. 2. Choose another word to write in binary, but keep it secret from your partner. 3. Fix the items to the table so that they don’t move. You can use Blu Tack or something similar for this. Cover your word using the card provided. 4. Swap with your partner and ‘read’ their word using a magnet. 5. Our devices store large amounts of information. If a book containing 500,000 characters is to be stored on a device, how many 1s and 0s are needed in total? How much physical space would you need to lay out the 500,000-character book on grids as you have just done for your name? Part 2: Magnetic memory 1. Using the internet, research the different devices that use a hard drive. Make a list based on what you find. Looking back 10, 20 or 30 years, were any of these devices originally bigger? If they have become smaller, has this changed the way they have been used? 2. What is cloud computing? Is this used in your school? Are there ways in which this could enrich the classroom? 15

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