Cross-curricular
Projects
Each project is built around an interest but assessed against real curriculum objectives — perfect evidence for a home-education portfolio.
Picked for Year 8
Animal World
Run a big cat census
Use published survey data to estimate how many snow leopards live in one mountain range, then judge how reliable your estimate is.
Animal World
Rewild a field
Plan how to turn a 4-hectare field back into habitat, with a costed five-year plan.
History Explorer
Curate one museum case
Choose five objects that explain a century of British history and write the labels a visitor actually reads.
History Explorer
Source detective: one disputed event
Take an event historians still argue about and decide what the evidence really supports.
Science Lab
Build and break a bridge
Design, build and load-test three paper bridge shapes, then explain the winner with forces.
Science Lab
Audit your home's energy
Measure where energy goes in one home and propose the three changes with the best payback.
Story Lab
Write a three-story anthology
Three short stories that share one object, each told in a different voice.
Planet Earth
Redesign one street
Survey a real street and propose changes that cut traffic without cutting access.
Tech & Code
Design an app for one real problem
Take a problem in your own week and design the app that would fix it, screen by screen.
Your World
Run a real fundraiser
Plan, cost and pitch a small fundraising event, then report the actual result.
Planet Earth
Report on ocean plastic
Investigate where plastic in the sea comes from, then write the report a local council would act on.
Animal World
Run an animal behaviour study
Watch one animal properly and record what it really does, rather than what you expect.
History Explorer
Was the factory town worth it?
Use real evidence about Victorian industrial towns to reach a judgement on whether life improved.
Tech & Code
Redesign your room to scale
Measure, plan and cost a redesign of one room, working entirely to scale.
Story Lab
Make one podcast episode
Script and record a twelve-minute episode explaining something you know well.
Science Lab
Test a healthy week
Choose one health habit, track it for a week and judge whether it made a difference.
Your World
Brief your councillor
Find one problem where you live and prepare the two-page brief a councillor could use.
Language Café
Build a travel phrasebook
Make a phrasebook you would actually use for a week abroad, then test it out loud.
Tech & Code
Build a data dashboard
Turn one real set of numbers into a page that makes the story obvious.
Story Lab
Edit a poetry anthology
Choose, order and introduce six poems so they build one theme.
More projects
Animal World
Design a wildlife sanctuary
Plan a sanctuary for three species: site, enclosures, budget, feeding, staffing and a public information board.
Animal World
Create an endangered species campaign
Run a persuasive campaign for one endangered species, backed by real data.
Animal World
Design the perfect zoo enclosure
Balance animal welfare, visitor experience and budget for one species.
Animal World
Do animals experience emotions?
An investigation using published evidence, ending in a reasoned position.
Animal World
Track a food web
Map a real habitat's food web and model what happens when one species declines.
Animal World
Create a wildlife magazine
Four pages: feature article, species profile, infographic and an opinion column.
Animal World
Build a wildlife database
Design and populate a species database that can answer real questions.
History Explorer
Design a medieval castle
Design a defensible castle for a real site, then justify every feature historically.
History Explorer
Write a Tudor diary
Two weeks in the life of a Tudor household member, historically grounded.
History Explorer
Investigate the Black Death
Causes, spread, response and consequences — with a map and a timeline.
History Explorer
Compare rich and poor Victorian childhoods
A side-by-side study of two real children's lives in the same city.
History Explorer
Build a British monarchy timeline
An interactive timeline from 1066 to today with turning points marked.
History Explorer
Create a WWII home-front scrapbook
Assemble a family scrapbook using real source types from 1939–45.
History Explorer
Create a Roman newspaper
Front page, report, advert and opinion column from a chosen Roman year.
Science Lab
Kitchen investigation write-up
Run a fair test at home — dissolving rates, insulation or bounce height — and write it up like a scientist.
Story Lab
Three-story mini collection
Write three very short stories that share a setting, then edit them properly.
Planet Earth
Local place fieldwork study
Study one street, park or stretch of river near you and produce a proper geographical report.
Tech & Code
Build a quiz program
Design and code a quiz that keeps score, using a list of questions and a loop.
Your World
Campaign for a local change
Choose something you would change locally and build the case a councillor would have to answer.
Language Café
French day-in-the-life script
Write and perform a two-minute French script about a normal day, in more than one tense.
Design Studio
Design a brand identity
Invent a small business and design its logo, colour palette and packaging.
Animal World
Build a minibeast hotel
Make a home for garden creatures, then count who moves in.
Animal World
Write a pet care guide
A four-page guide teaching someone how to look after one animal properly.
Animal World
Make an animal fact file
Six fact cards about animals that live in the same habitat.
History Explorer
Plan a Roman day
A full timetable for a child living in Roman Britain, using real evidence.
History Explorer
Make a family timeline
A timeline of your family alongside things that happened in Britain.
History Explorer
Make an Ancient Egypt museum box
Five made or drawn objects with real museum labels.
Story Lab
Draw a story map, then write the story
Plan an adventure as a picture map, then write it in five paragraphs.
Planet Earth
Record a weather week
Measure your own weather for seven days and report what you found.
Planet Earth
Map your street
A proper map with a key, compass points and a scale you worked out.
Your World
Run a one-day tuck shop
Buy, price and sell snacks, then work out whether you made money.
Animal World
Bird watch diary
Watch the birds near your home for a week and keep a proper record.
Science Lab
Make a shadow clock
Use a stick and chalk to tell the time from shadows.
History Explorer
Build a castle model
Make a model castle and explain how each part kept people safe.
Your World
Run a fruit shop
Set up a pretend fruit shop and work out the money.
Story Lab
Write a poem about home
Write a short poem using your five senses.
Science Lab
Plant growing race
Find out what beans need to grow best.
Planet Earth
Make a river in a tray
Use sand and water to see how a river shapes the land.
History Explorer
Museum of me
Choose five objects that tell your story and write museum labels.
Your World
Make a kindness plan
Plan one small thing that helps someone every day for a week.
Tech & Code
Code a paper maze
Write step-by-step instructions to get through a maze you draw.