This relates the project more to students' life experiences. Habitat lab report . Assign different intertidal habitats to groups of students, or have them all do one habitat. Take a field trip at low tide, have students bring two Tupperware containers each. Collect specimens in labeled Tupperware, store containers in teacher's room fridge, have students examine specimens in class the next day.
Students do research and produce an illustrated report on creatures and ecology of the habitat.
Fish stomach lab . Students dissect out contents and describe feeding in these species. A whole member of the fish species being dissected allows a good discussion of adaptations to feeding style. Summer flounder are voracious predators with a diverse diet and make particularly good specimens for this. Be sure to provide air freshener and dissection gloves as this can be an odiferous lab.