I am so excited to talk about this product that I am shaking with enthusiasm. The Fish School is a super cool science fair project kit that is designed to help kids train fish for their science fair project. This is a very affordable kit that has multiple project possibilities.
The premise of this kit is to have kids use positive reinforcement to train basic, and inexpensive, aquarium fish to do tricks. These tricks include swimming through a hoop, being fed by hand and traveling through a tube, just to name a few tricks. Once your kids have mastered these basic tricks they can develop their own tricks to teach their fish.
To turn the Fish School into a science fair project your kids will need to develop a hypothesis that predicts a behavior or relationship. For example, they may hypothesize that gold fish will not be able to learn as fast as beta fish. They can also hypothesize that more aggressive fish will be less willing to do tricks than more docile fish.
After a hypothesis has been formed your students will need to set up their experiment. If you only have one aquarium then you may need to purchase a tank divider, These acrylic dividers are inexpensive and can be found at most pet stores that carry fish or aquarium supplies. The experiment will need to focus on manipulating the independent variable and measuring the dependent variable. If your students do not know what their variables are have them read posts on variables in this blog. It will help them out a lot. If you have any questions about this product or about science fair projects in general, feel free to email me through this site.
This is so fun! Training fish? I never thought they could be trained! Let alone kids doing it. I wish I did this project.