Staying Safe!
These Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are important to wear to protect our eyes during a lab.
What are safety goggles?
This piece of lab equipment is used to hold liquids. It has a wide base and wide mouth.
What is a beaker?
Just because you're hungry, doesn't mean you should do this in the lab.
This should be done to long hair when working with an open flame.
What is tie hair back?
Student B is wearing safety goggles while working with acids and bases during a lab.
What is good behavior?
This piece of lab equipment is used to hold small amounts. It has a round bottom and needs a holder.
What is a test tube?
What you should do after a lab especially if working with chemicals or biological specimens.
Wash your hands.
This Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn to protect our hands.
What are gloves?
Student C is wearing goggles and an apron while reaching across a hot plate to unplug it.
What is bad behavior? (no reaching across the burner)
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure volume of liquids during a lab.
What is a graduated cylinder?
What is play with the gas taps?
This type of shoe should not be worn on lab days.
What are opened-toed shoes?
Student E sits down at the lab table and immediately begins to mix unknown chemicals together.
What is bad behavior? (no sitting, not following directions,etc. )
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure mass.
What is a triple beam balance? or scale?
These should be stored away from the lab benches.
What is jackets and backpacks?
It's a bad habit outside science, but you don't want this in your pocket while in science.
What is a vape pen or lighter?
This piece of safety equipment is used to vent fumes out of the classroom.
This piece of lab equipment is used to observe, usually in biology. It has a clear bottom and a clear lid.
What is a Petri Dish?
This behaviour (running, chasing, or otherwise goofing around and being silly) in the lab will not be tolerated.
What is roughhousing or horseplay?