Lol, telescopes.

Why not try growing fungus on different pH mediums?

*bonus* use a UV light to irradiate and select for special survivors.

if you discover the next penicillin, sign Dave’s name on the patent.

You ever hear about the story of Alex Flemming’s education?

the one with Churchill? It’s false.

Damn fake emails!

You’ll kill them lol. Why don’t you try testing them for pavlovian behavior? Like maybe put a flashing light in the tank when you feed them.

To save the fish we need to find this guy a project. Put on thinking caps.

Ok, I got one for you. Determine the affects of electromagnetism on fish. Place a electromagnet in the center of the tank, and observe the reaction of the fish. Just be sure to not to use greasy dirty stuff to stick in the tank, afterall we do not want to kill the fish.
Perhaps in addition you can make the same observation with just a plain magnet.
Also consider this. I have taken it from
http://www.apa.org/science/anguide.html

Justification of the Research

A. Research should be undertaken with a clear scientific purpose. There should be a reasonable expectation that the research will

a) increase knowledge of the processes underlying the evolution, development, maintenance, alteration, control, or biological significance of behavior

b) determine the replicability and generality of prior research

c) increase understanding of the species under study; or

d) provide results that benefit the health or welfare of humans or other animals.

We also learned a similar set of guidelines in my ethics course

one should also consider replacing higher animals with lower animals and also whether the study is redundant(duplicates previous research).

Fish seem to have the ability to perform feats of Navigation. How are they able to do this? One thing for sure is that the planet is one big magnet. Do the fish somehow sense this? I know sharks have a strong sensor for electromagnetism, the ampullae lorenzini. It was just a thought. Good question though. Maybe someone else has other ideas for a project. What is your timeline?

Try varying the field strength, that would help you confirm/disconfirm your hypothesis.

In order to vary field strength as Mith says, you would need a electro-magnet.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/electromagnet.htm

As far a regular magnets. Neodymium magnets, also called rare earth magnets are the bomb. Maybe too expensive though, about 2-5 bucks. They can be found at electronic surplus stores. Maybe your teacher can help locate a source in your area for you. Here is one source for ordering online.
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/uses.asp
I would really like to hear how this works out for you. Good luck.

Before you set yourself on the course of this project, you should consider a couple of things.

How are you going to measure quantitatively change in behavior? Specifically what type of changes are you measuring? In this case you might want to observe initially if there’s any sort of response before deciding on a unit of measurement.

What if there is no change in behavior? More often than not, this would be the norm. Be prepared to answer why this is the case and what other experiments you might need to test your hypothesis.

For example, in birds only some species such as pigeons can do this, but can all fishes? What if you used a different species of fish that also exhibits homing behavior such as salmon? You can also take a similar line of reasoning for types of magnets, and how you used the magnets.

First off ICO, listen to Mith, He is like Mr. Wizard. Secondly I kinda thought up a test setup for you. In one test, use a fake magnet, the other test you could divide the tank with some sort of median, and put magnet on one side of median with fish on other side. Try exp with both poles of magnet. Then do same on other side of median. I made a little drawing to illustrate.

Just a quick disclaimer: I never tried this experiment, and the results may prove to be less than what might be expected. So before you go to far into this, maybe just run a quick exp with a magnet to see if anything happens. I would feel bad if I gave you bad advice. Like I said, it what just an idea. Scientist often prove their own hypothosis wrong through experiments. That is why the do them 🙂
Does that make sense?

Read my post, it’ll give you something to think about if "nothing" happens. Remember nothing is relative to what you’re measuring. If the fish become more active and you were measuring attraction to the magnet then "nothing" happened according to your recording criteria.

Another thing, remember that magnetic fields decrease with relation to distance(r) with this relationship:

1/r^2