Biology Science Fair Projects

There are many life science - biology kits on the market. Not all will give you the means to do a science fair project. The following life science - biology kits have experiments that can help you to do a project for the science fair. Or you can make up your own with the supplies included in the kit.

Primary thru Middle School

Young Scientists Club Set 4 - Bacteria & Fungi, Weight & Volume, Acids & Bases Your Scientists will be fascinated by growing fungi and bacteria of all colors in Petri dishes. Discover how antibiotics can cure disease. Young scientists make and calibrate a scale, learn about density, and test all kinds of substances with pH and litmus paper.

Young Scientists Club Set 5 Water, Capillary Action, Air WHAT DO SUBMARINES, CHROMATOGRAPHY, AND CAPILLARY TUBES ALL HAVE IN COMMON? Use a capillary tube like doctors in a hospital. Observe upward water movement in plants. Watch color dyes crawl up chromatography paper.

Young Scientists Club Set 7 Bones and Muscles, The Senses, Light MOVING JOINTS, MAPPING TASTE BUDS, AND OPTICAL ILLUSIONS WILL DELIGHT ALL YOUNG SCIENTISTS. Study and recreate an X-ray. Map taste buds. Make a hinge and ball-and-socket joint. Make a vocal cord model. Compare spinning glitter to the ear. Find cold and hot receptors.

Young Scientists Club Set 10 Seeds, Fruits, and other Plant Parts, Eggs, Owls HANDS ON EXPERIENCE WITH THE CYCLE OF LIFE to do biology science fair projects!!! Make a terrarium with the enclosed selection of seeds and study plants just like a botanist. Continue this cycle of life by experimenting with eggs and creating a brine shrimp habitat. Your Young Scientists will learn how to take care of their new "pets" to ensure survival of these creatures. Finish the set with the dissection of an owl pellet and assembly of a rodent skeleton with the bones found in the pellet.

Easy, instantly downloadable 24-hour science fair projects for life and biology projects! Undercover Sneeze   Grades K - 5 A Straight Flush         Grades 3 - 8 Grades 3 - 8 Easy, Instantly Downloadable Weekend Science Fair Projects! • EGG-XPERIMENTING! Take the shell off an egg without boiling, and find out if water will go through the membrane. The reviews on these science fair projects are outstanding! "I love the 5 easy, 24 hour projects. Interesting, fun, and best of all, quick!" Susan Young, mother of a 2nd grader

With the help of the 96-page colored experiment book you will be able to conduct over 94 experiments while you make discoveries with the Thames and Kosmos Mind's Eye Optical Illusions and Human Perception. What is a blind spot and how do you find it? Special glasses with help you to detect the errors in a counterfeit bill! Learn first-hand how your eye and brain work together to perceive color, depth, size, light, shape and motion. And much more... Age 10 and up.

Giant Ant Farm Watch the world's tiniest engineers dig tunnels, build roads and erect bridges. Escape proof design with break resistant frame and viewing windows. Watch ants go about their "chores" around the barnyard and farmhouse. View ants up-close as they work "underground". Includes high-impact frame with glass sides, sand, food, complete instructions that will help you with biology science fair projects. See 5 different ant farm biology science fair projects and experiments that you can do for your science fair with ants.

Electrocardiogram Heart Monitor Kit Enjoy learning about the inner workings of the heart. At the same time covering the stage by stage electronics circuit theory used in the kit. The three probe wire pick-ups allow for easy application and experimentation, without an annoying, cumbersome harness. And the literature included with the ECG1 covers everything, from a circuit description of the kit itself to a circuit description of the heart! Get two free heart monitor biology science fair projects here...

Explore the fascinating world of bugs with the EDU7078 The Bug World Science Kit. This kit provides a colorful manual detailing over 25 creeping, crawling activities and experiments. Observe, explore and develop biology science fair projects with this kit. And on top of that... Detective ThinkMore has provided you with 10 science fair project ideas to use with this kit! Just look and see.... Ages 8 and up.

DNA Childrens Forensics Kit from Discovery Channel Explore one of the newest frontiers in science - DNA mapping. From science labs to courtrooms, few discoveries are as exciting as the world of DNA. With this deluxe, first-of-its-kind kit, you can extract, view and map real DNA yourself. Ideal for budding forensic-scientists or secret agents, the working lab and tools are just like the real thing. Plus, you'll have all the supplies needed for six fascinating DNA experiments for biology science fair projects. Extract DNA from vegetables, find out what actually fakes ink colors and even grow crystal stalagmites! Ages 10 and up. Named to Popular Science's Best of What's New List.

Whodunit? Forensics Lab from Discovery Learn how to use science to fight crime! With advances in forensic science, more and more crime work is being solved in the lab. Now you can introduce your child to a fun and fascinating side of science, with this complete at-home forensic lab. You'll face six tough cases - each harder than the last. Use the state-of-the-art lab instruments to analyze handwriting, decipher blood type and examine mysterious fibers in your search for answers. This kit can be used for biology science fair projects or chemistry science fair projects. Ages 8 and up. Winner of the Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award.

Deluxe Triassic Triops Do Biology Science Fair Projects with Triops. Prehistoric Sea Monsters! Triops are crustaceans that look like miniature horseshoe crabs. Smaller members are brine shrimp, fairy shrimp and Daphnia. Triops have a relatively short lifespan of 20 to 90 days and grow quickly ... depends on the amount of light and food it receives. After hatching, Triops often double in size daily! The Deluxe Triassic Triops kit provides you with your very own prehistoric crustaceans. The triops is a 3-eyed creature that grows up to 3 inches in length.

Middle School thru High School AP

Explore genetic engineering with the Phenotype Expression Kit and perform bacterial transformation. There is also a free science fair project for you when you look at this page. Learn more....

You will be able to separate DNA strands with the DNA Electrophoresis Kit that will show you how to use agarose gel and various colored dyes to create DNA isolation. And we have a free biology science fair projects on this page to go along with the kit!

Antibiotic Effects Kit Based on the Bauer-Kirby test, this kit is used to investigate the effectiveness of three antibiotics using disks of penicillin, tetracycline and chloramphenicol on a petri dish. You will be able to measure the clear “zones of inhibition” around each disk to determine which antibiotic was most effective.

Boreal Antibiotic Resistance Lab Since the 1940s, scientists have used antibiotics to combat disease-causing bacteria. This lab features two experiments that let you determine the resistance of bacteria to tetracycline, an antibiotic for biology science fair projects.

Lab-Aids Aspirin Study Kit Aspirin (acetysalicylic acid) is probably the most used and abused of non-prescription drugs. In this lab activity you will be able to determine the percentage of aspirin found in single tablet samples of aspirin that you bring from home as well as that of the included “Brand X”. You will also discover what other substances besides aspirin are in the tablets and calculate the cost per table.

Common Cold Kit 9 out of every 10 Americans catch a cold every year. Are there ways to prevent this? How does sneezing affect the spread of the common cold? What is a virus? You get the hard facts in this kit developed by biology instructors Dr. Alan Gillen and Dr. Heather Mayor. Activities include testing for the presence of a simulated cold virus (yeast solution) on various surfaces, exploring the effect of virus blockers versus hygienic methods as ways to minimize the spread of colds, testing for antibodies and building a model of a rhinovirus. Grades 9-AP.

Boreal The Enzymes of Bacteria You will observe the activities of bacterial enzymes by taking microorganisms from soil and introducing them to different media. As the enzymes digest the substrates, learn how enzymes speed up chemical reactions.

Biology Basic Equipment Set How do you know if potentially harmful bacteria are living in your drinking water? Wouldn't this set create interesting biology science fair projects? This economical package includes the basic hardware needed to conduct a variety of interesting and informative filtration tests. You can study microorganisms by trapping and culturing bacteria on the easy-to-use Millipore filters. You will have the tools you need to learn about and test modern filtration methods.

Fecal Coliform Test Kit With this kit, you will have the ability to test water for fecal pollutants, primarily Escherichia coli. The presence of E. coli is important because it sometimes indicates a larger sewage problem. This test requires an incubator that can be maintained at 24°C for 24 hours and The Basic Equipment Set, which are not included.

AP Biology Lab #5: Cell Respiration All of the components needed to perform the investigation measuring cellular respiration are included in one comprehensive lab activity. This lab also contains WARD’S unique respirometers. These require no assembly and are ready to measure the oxygen consumption of germinating and nongerminating peas. The effect of temperature on the rate of respiration is also studied. A thorough introduction covers the principles of cellular respiration, glycolysis, fermentation, Krebs Cycle, and gas laws, including how they relate to the function of a respirometer, while additional investigations provide you with the opportunity to explore related concepts in depth.

Kemtec Den-Test Kit You don’t have to take a field trip to the dentist to learn about tooth decay and preventive oral hygiene. With this kit, you will gain firsthand knowledge as they culture bacteria taken from their own teeth both before and after brushing. Includes: sterile petri dishes, swabs, agar and complete instructions. Why not do biology science fair projects by testing your fellow students teeth? Make a comparison between what Brand name toothpaste best removes bacteria from your teeth?

Boreal Disinfectant Sensitivity Kit - Live How effective are store-bought disinfectants against bacteria? You will answer this question by testing the relative strengths of five common bacteria killers. For a more extensive biology science fair projects kit look at the Boreal Antiseptics/Disinfectants Lab.

AP Biology Lab #1: Osmosis and Diffusion Premeasured sucrose packs reduce preparation time. You will work with a selectively permeable membrane to learn about osmosis, diffusion, and water potential of cells with one comprehensive lab activity. The kit provides all the basic materials needed to perform the various parts of AP Biology Lab #1. All you need to supply is a potato and an onion. So what is more permeable? Onion? Potato? Test different foods for biology science fair projects. You can also explore more about diffusion and osmosis with the AP Biology Lab #9: Transpiration which integrates skills and information learned in AP Biology Lab #1.

Kemtec How Good Is Your Suntan Lotion ? Premeasured sucrose packs reduce preparation time. Do commercial sunscreens really work? Test them and find out with this kit. It makes an excellent class study but is also a good basis for individual study. This kit is also good to use with group / team biology science fair projects.

Seed Germination and Plant Growth Kit has 30 different chambers so you can observe seed germiniation through the stages of plant growth. Learn more on what is included in this kit so you can experiment with plant development and see our free biology / biology science fair projects.

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