If you want to broaden your horizons in the classroom, why not try aquaculture? Depending on the amount of space you have available in your lab, you can have a lot of versatility. The main things you need to get started are a tank, an aerification system, a water maintenance schedule, and your fish of choice. A cool program I read about from Trout Unlimited was called "Trout in the Classroom". Through this program students squeezed eggs from female trout and fertilized the eggs with milt from the males at a fish rearing facility. They were then able to take the eggs back to their home school to raise into "fingerlings". Once the fish were big enough, the students would release the trout back into streams to help the local fish population.
This would be a neat program to discuss wildlife management, life cycles, and maintenance of a large fish tank. Or, fish could be produced for consumption and students could learn about marketing their fish for sale, proper fileting, and food safety. A "fish cam" could be installed to watch and monitor the fish as well.
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