Microeconomics · Demand and Supply
Track vegetable prices and explain why they change
Record the prices of five vegetables twice a week for a month and explain each rise and fall.
- Easy
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Research projects 226
Projects with a real question, a method and data you collect or analyse yourself.
Sociology · Family
Compare family structures across three generations
Interview grandparents, parents and peers about household size, marriage age and work.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Psychology + Public Health and Epidemiology
Study how sleep relates to mood and concentration
Survey classmates anonymously on sleep hours, mood and focus and look for a relationship.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Political Science · Elections
Analyse election results in your constituency
Use official results from three elections to chart turnout, vote share and margins.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
History · Modern History
Compare how two textbooks tell the same event
Compare the account of one event in two textbooks from different decades or countries.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Languages and Linguistics · Dialects
Document the dialect spoken in your family
Record 100 everyday words in your home dialect and compare them with the standard language.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Environmental Science · Pollution
Measure air quality with sticky cards
Hang petroleum-jelly cards at five locations and compare the particles they collect in a week.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Under 250
Crops, Soil and Horticulture · Soil Studies
Test the soil of three fields or gardens
Compare soil texture, pH, organic matter and drainage at three sites and suggest suitable crops.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Under 250
Public Health and Epidemiology · Health Surveys
Survey the health habits of your class
Collect anonymous data on sleep, breakfast, exercise, water and screen time and report the patterns.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Statistics and Probability
Predict house prices with linear regression
Use a public housing dataset to predict price from size, rooms and location.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Nutrition and Food · Diet Studies
Record and analyse your diet for a week
Keep a food diary for seven days and compare your intake with a balanced plate.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
History · Primary Sources
Analyse a primary source from the freedom movement
Take one speech, letter or newspaper report and analyse who wrote it, for whom and why.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Behavioural Economics · Experiments
Run the ultimatum game with classmates
Let proposers split ten tokens and responders accept or reject, and compare the results with theory.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Pure Mathematics + Biology
Explore the Fibonacci sequence in nature
Count spirals on pine cones, sunflowers and pineapples and test whether they are Fibonacci numbers.
- Beginner
- 2–7 days
- Free
Geography · Human Geography
Survey land use change around your town
Walk a transect from the centre to the edge and map how land use changes, then compare with old maps.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Astronomy and Space · Observational Astronomy
Track the Moon's phases for a month
Sketch the Moon every clear night for a month and explain the pattern with a ball-and-lamp model.
- Beginner
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Biology + Data
Compare a DNA sequence across species with free tools
Download one gene from six species, align the sequences and build an evolutionary tree.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Media and Journalism · Media Analysis
Analyse how two newspapers cover the same story
Compare headlines, sources quoted and language in two papers' coverage of one event over a week.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Pure Mathematics · Trigonometry
Measure heights with trigonometry
Make a clinometer and find the height of your school building, a tree and a tower.
- Easy
- 1 day
- Under 250
Literature and English · Literary Analysis
Write a critical appreciation of a short story
Analyse the plot, character, setting, narration and theme of one short story.
- Easy
- 2–7 days
- Free
Literature and English + Data
Analyse word use in a novel with a computer
Count words and character mentions in a public-domain novel and see what the numbers reveal.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
History · Oral History
Record the oral history of an elder in your family
Interview a grandparent or neighbour about one period of their life and set their story against the wider history.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Teaching and Learning · Classroom Research
Study how homework time relates to marks
Survey anonymous homework hours and grade bands and see whether more time means better marks.
- Easy
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Development and Applied Economics · Econometrics
Test whether education and earnings are related
Use a public survey dataset to estimate how much an extra year of schooling relates to earnings.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
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