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Silver award: how well do sun creams protect against UV radiation?
Students investigate how well different sun creams and sun blocks protect against UV radiation from the sun and research:
- Information about the electromagnetic spectrum and radiation from the sun.
- Why UV radiation is damaging to people’s skin.
- What different sun protection factors (SPFs) mean on sun cream and sun block.
- Different ways of measuring radiation from the sun.
They then need to develop a method to work out how much of the sun’s radiation is blocked by a variety of sun creams and sun blocks.
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