http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Phys_p083.shtml#summary
FWIW, I was amazed that they consider a 1-2 week project "long". I usually spent all summer working on my projects for the next school year.
And my 5th-grade granddaughter spent over six weeks on her award-winning AGW-busting project. (She had a full month of data from her own daily temperature measurements.)