61 Brilliant Biology Experiments

You will need: q An armless chairq Large blackboardq Classroomq Pen and 2 sheets of paperq Large wooden ruler or yardstickq 5-6 volunteers Find out whether the mind can actually help to achieve greater physical flexibility and dexterity. INSTRUCTIONS                 1. Create 2 groups— ‘With Mental Imagery’ and ‘Without Mental Imagery’.                 2. On 2 […]

You will need: Camera Image-editing software (should be able to cut and flip images) Computer The left side and the right side of your face are not identical. See the difference by following this experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Take close-up photographs of your friend’s face. Be careful that the photographs taken are not looking off to sides.

You will need: 10 glasses of water Sugar Spoon Food colour Timer/stopwatch Pen and paper Volunteers Befool a few friends by tricking their minds. This is not only a fun experiment but a proven scientific study. INSTRUCTIONS Take your friends out to a park where there is enough space to run. Make each one of

You will need: 2 different-sized pipe cleaners Drinking straw Thick rubber bands 50 cotton swabs/ear buds Scissors 1 marble Small pellets (should pass through the straw) Create a life-size model of the cell membrane to understand its functioning. INSTRUCTIONS Take all the ear buds and bunch them together.Tie a rubber band around them to keep

You will need: Air conditioner A small room Thermometer Heater 10-15 volunteers Mental games (Sudoku, multiplication tests, etc.) Pen and paper Stopwatch Why do chilled temperatures affect our mind? Find out with this experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Spread the experiment out over a span of 2 days. On day one, cool a small room down to 17-18degrees

You will need: A bare room, with no clocks, no pictures, wall hangings, etc. A stopwatch Volunteers of different age-groups Pen and paper Does time change when we grow up? Findout how relative time can become with age. INSTRUCTIONS Get volunteers ranging from age6 to age 25, keeping a gap of 5years between each volunteer.

You will need: Transparent tape Table lamp Magnifying glass Inkpad Blank paper Talcum powder Fluffy makeup brush Through this experiment, understand how our fingerprints are transferred everywhere and also how to analyze them. INSTRUCTIONS Take a 1-inch piece of transparent tape. Be careful not to smudge it with your fingers. Place the top one-third of

You will need: 2 large bowls Water Marbles 4-6 volunteers Stopwatch 2 empty vessels Find out why our fingers begin to wrinkle whenkept in water, by following this experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Make half the volunteers you have soak their hands in bowls of water until their fingertips begin to wrinkle. One half of your volunteers have

You will need: A dimly lit room Blindfold 10-15 volunteers (of which 5 have brown eyes, 5 have greenish eyes and if possible 5 have bluish eyes) Various coloured sheets of chart, marble paper/ construction paper Tape Pen and paper We all are born with different eye colours. Does difference in eye colour affect the

You will need: Volunteers/ test subjects 3 different songs (in different genres) Music player Pen and paper Survey sheet How many times has it happened that oneparticular song gets stuck in our head?Conduct this experiment to learn more about the dreaded earworm effect. INSTRUCTIONS Hand your volunteers a survey sheet. The sheet must include timings,

You will need: Metal cake tin/pie pan Metal spoon Salt Ear muffs Try this experiment to know all about vibrations and feeling the sound without actually hearing it. INSTRUCTIONS Firstly put on some really good noise-blocking ear muffs. Next, turn the metal cake tin or pie pan upside down and put a thin layer of

You will need: Ice water Large bowl (enough to submerge both hands) Friends (at least one should be left-handed) Stopwatch Paper and pen Find out with this experiment if your dominant side is more sensitive to touch than the other side. INSTRUCTIONS Place a large bowl of ice water on a table. Ask one of

You will need: A big grassy field 60-80 metres of string Plastic ziplock bag full of flour Small bell Measuring tape Nails A blindfolded friend Try this experiment with your friends to find out who amongst you has a better sense of hearing. INSTRUCTIONS Create a diameter by placing 30 metres of string in a

You will need: Long wooden ruler Projector Movable white screen or large sheet of chart paper Computer Understand persistence of vision through this experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Request your teacher at the school to help assist you with a projector. Place a white screen 8 feet away from the projector. Position your screen in front of a

You will need: Marker 5 paper cups Water Sugar Salt Lime Soya sauce Cold strong black coffee Q-tips Tablespoon INSTRUCTIONS Create your 5 test solutions. The first is asugar solution. Dissolve 2 tablespoonfuls ofsugar in ¼ cup of water in a paper cup (marked ‘Sweet’). For the second paper cup(marked ‘Salty’) mix 2tablespoonfuls of salt