Lab Safety
This should be done to long hair when working with an open flame.
What is tying back one's hair?
This piece of safety equipment is used for someone if their clothing would catch on fire during a lab.
What is a fire blanket?
Student A is using a wafting technique to detect the scent of an unknown liquid substance. Good or Bad Behavior?
What is a good behavior?
This piece of lab equipment is used to accurately measure different volume of liquids during a lab.
What is a graduated cylinder?
The SI unit for mass.
What is a kilogram?
This type of shoe should NOT be worn on lab days.
What are opened-toed shoes, flip flops, or sandals?
This piece of safety equipment is used only by the teacher to put out a fire in the lab.
What is a fire extinguisher?
Student B is wearing safety goggles and an apron while working with baking soda and vinegar during a lab. Good or Bad Behavior?
What is good behavior?
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure mass.
What is a digital balance? (or scale or triple beam balance)
The SI unit for temperature.
What is Kelvin?
These must be worn to protect our eyes.
What are goggles?
This piece of safety equipment contains materials to treat minor injuries.
What is a first aid kit?
Student C reaches across a Bunsen burner to turn it off. Good or Bad Behavior?
What is bad behavior? (reaching across the burner)
This piece of equipment is used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The formula for density.
What is Mass รท Volume?
One should never __________ a chemical.
Taste, eat, or drink
This piece of safety equipment is used when debris or chemicals get in your eyes.
What is an eyewash station?
Student D is picking up broken glass (using their hands) from a beaker that was dropped on the floor. Good or Bad Behavior?
What is bad behavior? (Tell the teacher! They will use a broom and dust pan.)
Students use this to record observations, measurements, and data.
What is a lab notebook or journal?
What two pieces of equipment do we need to find the density of a marble?
What are a balance and a graduated cylinder?
Broken glass should be put into this.
What is a broken glass or sharps container? NOT the trash can.
This is the first person that should be made aware of any mishaps or accidents during a lab.
Who is the teacher?
Student E sits down at the lab table and immediately begins mixing unknown chemicals as without reading the directions. Good or Bad Behavior?
What is bad behavior?
Scientists use this piece of lab equipment to place chemicals in for reactions to occur.
What is a test tube, beaker, or Erlenmeyer flask?
The mass of a gummy bear is 4 grams. The volume of the same gummy bear is 1 mL. The density is _______.
What is 4 g/mL?