Pacific oceans and can reach a maximum length of 75 cm. In the food industry, their hard scales are typically discarded as waste. This waste presents a sustainable opportunity to use the fish scales as biosorbents for managing heavy metal waste in school, university, or industrial chemistry laboratories. White snapper was selected for this activity because its relatively larger scales made it easier for students to insert them into the teabags. Students simply dipped the fish scale-filled 240 teabags into the heavy metal solutions. We used commercially available teabags as containers for the dried fish scales. In this experiment, minimal modifications were made to the fish scales, simplifying the pretreatment process.