Aerospace Engineering + Physics
Make a model wind tunnel and test shapes
Build a small wind tunnel from a fan and straws and compare the drag of different shapes.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- 500–1,000
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Accountancy · Ratio Analysis
Analyse the annual report of a listed company
Compute liquidity, profitability and solvency ratios for a company over five years and explain the trends.
- Intermediate
- 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
Applied Mathematics + Sociology
Model the spread of a rumour
Build a logistic model of how a rumour spreads through a school and test it with a class game.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- Intermediate
- 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
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.
- Intermediate
- 1 day
- Under 250
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
Psychology · Social Psychology
Investigate conformity with a classroom task
Test whether people change an estimate after seeing what others answered, with a full debrief.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Legal and Constitutional Studies · Constitutional Studies
Explain a fundamental right through real cases
Take one right and show how three landmark cases shaped what it means today.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- 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.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Data · Databases
Design a database for a hostel or library
Model a real system as tables, normalise it and answer ten questions with SQL.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Macroeconomics · Growth
Analyse your country's growth over 30 years
Chart GDP growth, sector shares and income per person, and explain three turning points.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
History + Geography
Map a historical event with digital tools
Plot the route of a march, a trade route or a campaign on a map and tell the story stage by stage.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Behavioural and Cognitive Science + Graphic and UI/UX Design
Test the usability of two apps or websites
Give five users the same three tasks on two competing apps and record time, errors and comments.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Environmental Science + Data
Analyse 50 years of your city's temperature data
Download long-term temperature records and test whether your city has warmed, and by how much.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Behavioural and Cognitive Science + Teaching and Learning
Compare study techniques with a memory test
Test whether self-quizzing beats rereading for remembering a passage a week later.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Teaching and Learning · Lesson Experiments
Compare two ways of teaching the same lesson
Teach one topic by lecture to one group and by activity to another, and compare a quiz.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Microeconomics · Elasticity
Measure price elasticity with a classroom survey
Ask how many units people would buy at different prices and calculate elasticity along the curve.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
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