State Goal Content
Apply safety procedures in the laboratory and in field studies. Recognize and avoid potential hazards. Safely manipulate materials and equipment needed for scientific investigations. Predict safety concerns for particular experiments. Relate biological concepts to safety applications such as: disease transmission, animal care. Personal Safety Equipment (PPE’s)
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Activities
Lab Safety This activity is an alternative to the standard lecture on lab safety. It also introduces group work and creativity in the opening days of school.
1. To Take or Not to Take a Wiff
1. Give 1 student a tray with 3 beakers on it. Tell him not to touch any of them.
2. Give a student with three test tubes with water in them.
3. Tell student 1 that one of the beakers is at room temperature, one of the beakers has been sitting on a hotplate and 1 has been in the freezer. Ask him if he can tell which one is hot.
4. Discuss that looks can be deceiving…just because something appears to be safe, does not mean that it is.
5. Tell student number 2 that one test tube has water in it, one has vinegar, and one has acid in it. Ask him if he would like to take a big wiff of any of the test tubes. Again, reiterate, that just because something looks safe, doesn’t mean that it is.
6. Talk about students who have walked into the classroom where there appeared to be a beaker of water with a dropper in it. The students squirted the dropper on another student to find out that it was bleach. Bleach is dangerous enough, but it could have been more dangerous.
7. Always assume that everything is unsafe until you know definitely that it is safe.1
2. My Teacher is Trying to Kill Me!!!
1. Class should already be set up with many unsafe things around.
2. Group students in pairs and have them wander around the room for 10 minutes, locating all of the unsafe things in the room and listing them
3. Call on individual students for the next 10 minutes to report what they found in the room that was unsafe and what should be done to make what they found safe.2
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Essential Questions
“Why are lab safety rules important?”
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