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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Research workshop:

Research workshop: Magnetism Binary table 16

Research workshop: Electricity Instructions There are many way that we generate electricity for use in our homes, businesses and schools. We are currently aiming to use fewer sources that produce large amounts of CO2 emissions, such as coal-fired power stations. The sources that have little or no CO2 emissions during operation are nuclear power stations or renewable energies such as wind, solar and hydro-power. It is also useful for electricity to be generated locally to where it is used. In this workshop you will work in pairs to investigate ways of meeting your school electricity needs using local sources. You should make notes as you go through this workshop as you will need to share your findings with your teammates. Part 1: How is electricity produced 1. Write down a list of the different ways you can think of to generate electricity. For each item on your list, add a description of how you think it works. 2. Most forms of electricity generation, except for solar panels, require some kind of movement. Using the materials provided, investigate how moving a magnet near a coil of wire can produce electricity. Part 2: Electricity in school 1. Make a list of the items in your classroom that are used to help you learn. How many of these require electricity? Are there alternatives that would use less electricity? 2. Do you think that in the future there will be more or fewer items in the classroom that will require electricity? 3. How much electricity do you need to run a classroom for a whole school day? You can estimate this using the Power usage fact file and your own internet research. 4. Are there ways you could reduce this? How could you generate energy at school? You can use the Movement fact file to begin your research. 17

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