A good example of original research that can be done in the area of fragmentation/cracking of material, such as glass slides, can be found here. Interesting variations can be done on this in numerous ways. FOr instance, looking at what cracks when there's more than 2 layers of slides could be done. Having the landing object land on different locations of the slide can be done. Hitting on an edge rather than the flat face of the slide could be done. Different sized and shaped slides could be used (circular rather than rectangular, for instance - what happens as boundary conditions are changed? Check out the paper and see if this type of research interests you! It is good experience to have in effectively 'counting' experiments, where one does as many cracked examples as possible, and then categorizes each one by a type or class of cracking - basically one looks to 'measure' the probabilities for each type of cracking pattern to form. Or you can try other materials in a similar manner.
Get some other ideas for these types of experiments with this article.
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