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- GAME - Create a game on a topic with instructions, game pieces and board. Test it on friends.
- STRUCTURE - Make a 5 foot tall structure using 7 or more materials.
- SCHOOL or TOWN VIDEO PROJECT - make a video on your school or town's history or present
- HOW-TO VIDEO PROJECT - create a how-to video to teach how to do something you know how to do well
- ANIMAL PROJECT - Write a 5 page report on an animal, a model and a poster
- MAGIC CARDS - Make up Magic the Gathering cards - 20-30 professionally done and teach someone to play who doesn't know how
- INVENTION - Make and build an invention that improves something
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENT - Create a new musical instrument and me up a song using it.
- ROBOT - Build a robot that helps around the house
- BLUE PRINTS - Design blue prints and build a model for a future house or other building.
- PUPPETS - Make puppets and do a show for the class with them.
- TOY - Design a new toy. Test it and write up the results.
- SPORT - Design and new sport. Test it, write up the results.
- COOKING - Make a new food recipe. Taste test it with a group of people Write up results.
- MAP - Draw a map of what you think the US will look like in 2250. Draw a large scale map of the US in present and also present and future maps of your state.
- PLANET - Pretend you discovered a new planet and its inhabitants. Do a one page news report about it, a model of the planet, model of the aliens, and/or schematics of the planet in space and topographical map of the planet.
- ORIGAMI - Make 20 very well done different origami figures and make a directions poster for one of the more complex ones using photos or real life models for each step.
- COMPUTER - Create a computer game or program with directions and a picture.
- TV SHOW - Make your own TV show or short film.
- PET TRAINING - Train a pet to do a new, interesting trick or set of tricks. Show a before, during, and after video of the training process.
- MUSIC VIDEO - Create a music video using another musician's music or your own.
- ORIGINAL SONGS - Write and record your own original songs (at least 2 or one 5 minutes or more.)
- MUSICAL PARODIES - Write new lyrics to 3 or 4 well-known songs.
- PLAY - Write a live play/skit and invite other students to perform in it. You direct it and present it.
- DRINK INVENTOR - Make up 8 or more of your own drink creations (non-alcoholic). Present the recipes in book form and on overhead sheets along with samples and a create a graph of taste test results done with at least 20 people.
- CHAPTER BOOK - Write a chapter book of 10 or more chapters.
- MAGIC SHOW - Do a magic show using at least 5 tricks. (Costume required.) Present to at least 3 classes.
- D.A.R.E. - Make your own DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program and videotape it.
- POETRY - Write a book of 20+ poems you have written with pictures to go with each.
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Write an autobiography and include pictures. This must have at least 10 major events.
- BIOGRAPHY - Interview someone living and with their cooperation create a biography of them with pictures.
- TEACHER BIOGRAPHY BOOK - Do a mini biography book of all the teachers at your school and type it up. Get every teacher's permission to use anything they tell you. Put together a copy of the book or each teacher in it.
- VIDEO COMMERCIAL - Make 3 different videotaped commercials for something you design or think up.
- ENDANGERED SPECIES MOVIE - Make a movie about endangered species in general or one type of endangered or extinct animal.
- TRANSPORTATION - Design a new form of transportation and build a model of it.
- SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS - Do something specific to improve the school. First get permission from the principal and PTA if necessary. Examples: Plant a flower garden, organize a group of students to do regular weekly trash pick up from the grounds outside.
- WALL MURAL - Come up with a plan of what picture you want to do and a location and get permission from the principal before beginning anything physical. Draw the outline on the wall (Use an overhead projector to project a sketch or cartoon characters, etc.) and paint it. Make sure this project is supervised.
- TOOTHPICK STRUCTURE - Build a structure from toothpicks that can hold 10 lbs. or more. You may not use super-glue or wood glue to hold it together.
- ELECTRIC GENERATOR - Build an electric generator and be able to describe how it works.
- SOLAR - Build a solar powered radio or anything else that runs by solar energy.
- FIRE PROTECTION - Design new types of fire protection - including better fire resistant clothing, a new fire alarm, etc.
- IMAGINARY ANIMAL REPORT - Create an imaginary animal and write a 5 page report about it as if it was real. Make a model and poster of it. Do a classification chart of it and a food chain chart of where it fits.
- VEHICLE - Create a new vehicle or device to help the handicapped.
- COMICS - Write a 10 page comic book or series of 10 or more cartoons from scratch.
- COMIC REWRITE - Draw or design a comic book to retell a novel or famous short story.
- COMMUNICATION - Make a new kind of or method of communication (e.g., telephone, sign language)
- LANGUAGE - Create a new language and teach it to the class. If it is just a written language, write a mini translation dictionary for it. If only oral, teach at least 30 words and the alphabet. Or do some combination of both.
- VACATION SPOT - Design a new vacation spot - maps, pamphlets, model.
- POETRY MUSIC - Write a poem and put it to music.
- PEN PALS - Get a pen pal from a different country and exchange 5 letters with them or get 5 pen pals from different states or countries and exchange 1 letter with each of them. (Modify amt if using emails.)
- COOKBOOK - Write a cookbook. Demonstrate 5 or more of the recipes.
- SPACE TRAVEL - Design ways to make space travel more safe and more fun.
- FUN BOOK - Make a 30-50 page fun book with word searches, scramble puzzles and crosswords.
- SIGN LANGUAGE - Learn 50 or more signs and teach to a class or to several friends.
- OM BOOK - Make a book of spontaneous OM problems and test some of them on an OM team. Set this up with their coach.
- SURVEYS - Do several surveys in grades 1-5 or 6-8 and graphs of all the results.
- DANCE SHOW - Make up some dances and perform to several grades.
- NEW SONG - Learn to play a new song on an instrument.