Pre-Lab Safety
This should be done to long hair when working with an open flame or chemicals.
What is tie hair back?
Joe is using a wafting technique to detect the scent of an unknown liquid substance.
What is a good behavior?
This is the first step - based on observations that you have made.
What is QUESTION?
This is what you should do to hoodie strings / ID badges / jewelry.
What is tuck them inside your shirt / take them off?
This is the first person that should be made aware of any mishaps or accidents during a lab.
Who is the teacher?
Bob is wearing safety goggles and an apron while working with chemicals in a lab.
What is good behavior?
This piece of equipment uses methane gas and a flame to heat substances.
What is a Bunsen burner?
This is all of the observations and numbers you collect during an experiment.
What is DATA?
This type of shoe should not be worn on lab days.
What are open-toe shoes?
This blue safety box contains material to treat minor injuries.
What is a first aid kit?
Janet is wearing goggles and an apron while reaching across a Bunsen burner to turn the gas off.
What is bad behavior? (reaching across the burner)
This piece of equipment is used to transfer small amounts of liquids. (Not a dropper!)
What is a pipette?
This is when you predict the outcome of an experiment. It must be an "If...then..." statement.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
This piece of safety equipment is used when you get something in your eyes.
What is an eyewash station?
Dan is wearing goggles and gloves while picking up broken glass from a beaker that was dropped on the floor.
What is bad behavior? (Tell the teacher!)
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure mass (Not a scale!).
What is a balance?
This is where you sum up the experiment and state if your hypothesis was right or wrong.
What is CONCLUSION?
This item can be worn to protect our clothes and skin.
What is an apron?
This is the element that fuels fires and the reason we use a blanket or fire extinguisher.
What is oxygen?
Lisa walks into class, immediately sits down at the lab table, begins to read the lab directions and mix chemicals as indicated by the directions.
What is bad behavior? (The teacher did not tell them to start)
This piece of lab equipment is Mrs. Schomaker's favorite because of its name.
What is a scoopula?
This is the ONE variable that the scientist changes when designing an experiment.
What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?