Simple Tasks Great Concepts

100 Life Science expts which a child can do without any laboratory help.

Though the urge to design experiments and the urge to write something related to this started in 1991, yet the real serious work on putting it on paper started during early 2009. Today as I look at the book the enormous amount of collective energy by my entire team reflects with zeal and I am confident that this “Simple tasks, Great concepts” would be put to great use by the schools in its real perspective. The writing of this book, not only made me glad and satisfying as I was fine tuning all the 100 experiments, but gave in me the extreme consolation that somewhere some child in some remote part of my mighty country would be able to do most of these experiments even without a laboratory. I am sure and confident my team also feels the same.

To a large extent this book is structured to have experiments to be conducted from 001 to 100, but as a student of Life Sciences, who believes in Nature, just flip open whichever page you want and enjoy doing the experiment… and indeed learn in the process. Apart from the book and the CD, a set of 20 posters have been created by the participating schools. These posters have been whetted and beautified by the excellent artistic team of the Department of Fine Arts of the Stella Maris College, Chennai, for which I am personally indebted to the Principal Dr Sr Jasintha Quadras, the Head of the Department of Fine Arts, the faculty especially Dr Razia Tony and the great young budding artists Dhai Abinaya, Shruti and Sravanthi of that Department. Last but never the least; I thank God for having given my team and me an opportunity to create this compilation of experiments along with the CD and the posters for you… Come let’s “make life science learning livelier”.

It then occurred to all of us that this team effort and the energy that has gone into it should reach a multitude of children throughout the globe… and here is born a blog that we dream will reach to a multitude of children, parents and teachers…… We will earnestly wait to receive your feedback.

Sultan Ahmed Ismail,

Managing Director, Ecoscience Research Foundation, Chennai