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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.

Field StudyHousehold materialsFull guide

  • 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.

Field StudyHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Under 250

Civil Engineering · Structural Analysis

Compare the strength of beam cross-sections

Fold the same sheet of card into flat, tube, box and I shapes and measure how much each bends.

ExperimentHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Intermediate
  • 2–7 days
  • Under 250

Artificial Intelligence + Statistics and Probability

Predict house prices with linear regression

Use a public housing dataset to predict price from size, rooms and location.

AI/ML ProjectComputer onlyFull guide

  • 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.

Data AnalysisNo equipmentFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Physics · Modern Physics

Measure Planck's constant with LEDs

Find the turn-on voltage of LEDs of different colours and get Planck's constant from the slope.

ExperimentBasic electronicsFull guide

  • Advanced
  • 2–7 days
  • 250–500

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.

ExperimentNo equipmentFull guide

  • 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.

InvestigationHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Beginner
  • 2–7 days
  • 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.

Research ProjectNo equipmentFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Chemistry + Nutrition and Food

Measure the vitamin C in fruit juices

Titrate juices with iodine and starch to compare how much vitamin C each contains.

ExperimentHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Intermediate
  • 1 day
  • Under 250

Pure Mathematics · Trigonometry

Measure heights with trigonometry

Make a clinometer and find the height of your school building, a tree and a tower.

Field StudyHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Easy
  • 1 day
  • Under 250

Cybersecurity + Pure Mathematics

Implement classic ciphers and break them

Write Caesar and substitution ciphers, then crack them with frequency analysis.

Software ProjectComputer onlyFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Statistics and Probability · Probability

Estimate pi by dropping needles

Drop sticks on ruled paper, count how many cross a line and get an estimate of pi.

ExperimentHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Easy
  • 1–3 hours
  • Free

Biology + Environmental Science

Map the biodiversity of a school ground

Survey plants and small animals with quadrats and calculate a biodiversity index for different areas.

Field StudyA phoneFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Environmental Science · Climate

Calculate your household's carbon footprint

Collect a month of electricity, fuel, travel and food data and convert it into kilograms of carbon dioxide.

Data AnalysisNo equipmentFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Biology · Botany

Compare the stomata of different leaves

Take nail-polish peels of leaves and count stomata on upper and lower surfaces.

ExperimentLab equipment requiredFull guide

  • Easy
  • 1–3 hours
  • Under 250

Biology · Cell Biology

Observe osmosis in potato strips

Soak potato strips in salt solutions and find the concentration at which they neither gain nor lose mass.

ExperimentHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Easy
  • 1 day
  • Under 250

Applied Mathematics + Finance and Banking

Study compound interest and inflation

Model how savings grow with interest and how inflation changes their real value.

Data AnalysisComputer onlyFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Behavioural Economics + Psychology

Test the anchoring effect on price estimates

Show two groups a high or low number first and compare their estimates of an unrelated price.

ExperimentNo equipmentFull guide

  • Intermediate
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Pure Mathematics · Geometry

Prove the Pythagorean theorem five ways

Build paper dissections and algebraic proofs of the theorem and compare how each convinces.

InvestigationHousehold materialsFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Under 250

Public Health and Epidemiology + History

Map a disease outbreak like John Snow

Recreate the 1854 cholera map from public data and show how it pointed to one water pump.

Data AnalysisComputer onlyFull guide

  • Intermediate
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

Data · Data Analytics

Explore a dataset and tell its story

Pick a public dataset, ask five questions of it and answer each with a chart.

Data AnalysisComputer onlyFull guide

  • Easy
  • 2–7 days
  • Free

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