RECOMMENDED MINIMUM CORE INVENTORY TO SUPPORT STANDARDS-BASED INSTRUCTION HIGH SCHOOL GRADES SCIENCES High School Chemistry Quantity per lab group Quantity per classroom/ adjacent work area Description SAFETY EQUIPMENT 2 Acid storage cabinet (one reserved exclusively for nitric acid) 1 1 5 Chemical spill kit Chemical storage reference book Chemical waste containers (Categories: corrosives, flammables, oxidizers, air/water reactive, toxic) Emergency shower Eye wash station Fire blanket Fire extinguisher First aid kit Flammables cabinet Fume hood Goggles Goggles sanitizer (holds 36 pairs of goggles) Lab aprons COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING Television or digital projector VGA Adapters for various digital devices EQUIPMENT/SUPPLIES Aluminum foil Assorted rubber stoppers Balance, analytical (0.001g precision) Balance, electronic or manual (0.01g precision) Balloons, latex Beakers, 50 mL Beakers, 100 mL Beakers, 250 mL 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1/student 1 1/student 1 1 1 box 100 1 5 1 pkg of 50 4 4 2 Developed by California Science Teachers Association to support the implementation of the California Next Generation Science Standards. Approved by the CSTA Board of Directors November 17, 2015. Quantity per lab group Quantity per classroom/ adjacent work area 2 1 1 1 4 4 10 20 20 20 10 10 2 1/sink 1/sink 2/sink 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 3 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1/pair of students 100 Description Beakers, 400 or 600 mL Beakers, 1000 mL Beaker tongs Bell jar Bottle, carboy round, LDPE 10 L Bottle, carboy round, LDPE 4 L Bottle, narrow mouth, 1000 mL Bottle, narrow mouth, 125 mL Bottle, narrow mouth, 250 mL Bottle, narrow mouth, 500 mL Bottle, wide mouth, 125 mL Bottle, wide mouth, 250 mL Broken glass container Brushes, bottle/beaker Brushes, burette Brushes, test tube Buchner funnel Bunsen burner ignitors, strikers, lighters, or box of matches Bunsen burner Burette, 0.1 mL graduations Burette clamps, double Cart, lab Centrifuge tube to fit centrifuge Centrifuge, 8-place (shared with biology class) Cork borer set Counter brush Crucible tongs Crucibles Deflagrating spoons Demonstration molecular model set Demonstration tray Desiccant, Dreerite Desiccator plate Desiccator, Scheibler Diffraction gratings / spectroscopes Dropping (dispensing) bottles, 30 mL (for permanent storage of solutions) Developed by California Science Teachers Association to support the implementation of the California Next Generation Science Standards. Approved by the CSTA Board of Directors November 17, 2015. Quantity per lab group Quantity per classroom/ adjacent work area 1 1 1 1 2 1 box 5 pkg of 100 1 2 4 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 boxes 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 Description Drying oven Drying rack, vinyl coated Dust pan Element display set Evaporating dish, porcelain Filter paper for Buchner funnel Filter paper, 90 mm Fisher (high temperature) burners Flasks, Erlenmeyer, 1 L Flasks, Erlenmeyer, 125 mL or 250 mL Flasks, Erlenmeyer, 2 L Flask, filtering, 500 mL Flask, volumetric, 100 mL Flint lighter Forceps Funnels, plastic, 2.75" diameter Funnels, plastic, 5" diameter Gas measuring tube, glass graduated, 50 mL Glass tubing (i.e., Pyrex brand glass tubing assortment - 25 lb. case Vinyl or latex-free gloves Graduated cylinders, 10 mL Graduated cylinders, 50 mL Graduated cylinders, 100 mL Graduated cylinders, 500 mL or 1000 mL Hammer Hot mitts Hot plate Inoculating loop, Nichrome (for flame tests) Labels Magnetic stirrer bar set Magnetic stirrer plate Magnifying glass Medicine dropper Metal electrode set Meter, conductivity Meter, conductivity, digital, hand-held Developed by California Science Teachers Association to support the implementation of the California Next Generation Science Standards. Approved by the CSTA Board of Directors November 17, 2015. Quantity per lab group Quantity per classroom/ adjacent work area 2 4 2 1/sink 1 1 2 1 1 500 pkg 1 500 pkg 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 1 100 Set of 100 1 1 100 2 1 Description Microplates, large, 24-well Molecular model kits (three dimensional) Mortar, porcelain Paper towel dispenser Parafilm, 250 ft. Periodic table wall chart Pestle, porcelain pH meters / probes pH meter, digital, hand-held Pipette, Beral-type, thin-stem Pipette, graduated, 10 mL Pipettes, graduated, transfer, disposable, non-sterile, 5mL Pipette pump Pneumatic trough Ring stands (or other lab counter top support) Rings with clamps Rubber policeman Rulers Single burette clamp Spatulas, scoops, or plastic spatula/spoons Spectrophotometer and accessories (cuvets/test tubes, and optical wipes)(at least 3/class for AP) Spectroscope – hand held Spectrum tube power supply Spectrum tube, hydrogen Spectrum tubes (other gases for comparison) Sponge, cellulose Spot plates Still, water Stirring rods (plan for breakage replacement) Stoppers/corks (sacked, assorted sizes, with and without holes bored) Stop watch Storage boxes for student lab equipment Styrofoam cups Syringe without needle, 60 mL Television or digital projector Developed by California Science Teachers Association to support the implementation of the California Next Generation Science Standards. Approved by the CSTA Board of Directors November 17, 2015. Quantity per lab group Quantity per classroom/ adjacent work area 2 2 2 12 2 1 150 ft. 1 1 tube 1 1 1 2 2 2 1/sink 48 500 2 1 pkg. of 500 1 Description Test tube clamps Test tube holders Test tube racks (fitted for purchased test tubes) Test tubes (standard size, about 16 mm x 150 mm; plan for breakage replacement) Thermometers (-20 o to 110 o C) Triangles, iron wire Tubing, rubber, black, 1/4" diameter (for Bunsen burners) Utility carrier tray Vacuum grease Vacuum pump Vacuum tube, 50 ft. VGA Adapters for various digital devices Voltaic cell with porous cup Volumetric flasks, 500 mL Volumetric flasks, 1000 mL or 2000 mL Washing bottles, plastic Watch glass, 90 mm Weigh dishes Wire gauze Wood splints Wrench, adjustable ESSENTIAL CHEMICALS 2.5 L 500 mL 100 g 100 g 100 g 500 g 1,500 mL 100 g 500 g 1 1L 1L 1,500 g Acetic acid, glacial, ACS grade (17.4 M) Acetone, laboratory, solution Aluminum chloride Aluminum filings Aluminum nitrate Ammonium chloride, laboratory, granular Ammonium hydroxide, laboratory, solution 6.0 M ammonium metavanadate, reagent powder Boiling chips 500 g Bromine water kit Buffer solution pH 10 Buffer solution pH 4 Calcium chloride anhydrous, laboratory, lumps Developed by California Science Teachers Association to support the implementation of the California Next Generation Science Standards. Approved by the CSTA Board of Directors November 17, 2015. Quantity per lab group Quantity per classroom/ adjacent work area 500 g 500 g 5 pkg. 500 g 300 g Description Calcium metal Calcium nitrate 4-hydrate, laboratory, granular Candles Charcoal, laboratory, activated Chromium (III) nitrate 9-hydrate, reagent, crystal 500 g 100 g 100 g Citric acid Copper (II) carbonate Copper (II) chloride anhydrous, laboratory, powder 500 g 100 g Copper (II) chloride anhydrous, laboratory, powder Copper (II) nitrate 2.5 hydrate, reagent, crystal 500 g 100 g 8L 100 g 9 5g 3 2.5 L 1L 100 g 100 g 100 g 100 g 500 g 100g 500 g 100 g 1 reel 2.5 kg 300 g 500 mL 4L 1L 100 g 500 mL Copper sulfate Copper, metal Ethyl alcohol, reagent, solution Ferric nitrate Food coloring set with 4 colors Germanium, pieces, irregular 99.999% Grease pencils black 12/box Hydrochloric acid sol. conc. (12 m) Hydrogen peroxide (10% concentration) Iron (II) ammonium sulfate Iron (II) chloride Iron (III) chloride Iron filings Iron (II) sulfate 7-hydrate, laboratory, granular Iron (III) nitrate Lithium sulfate acs Lycopodium, laboratory, powder Magnesium ribbon Magnesium sulfate 7-hydrate, laboratory, crystal Manganese (IV) dioxide, reagent, powder Manganese nitrate, reagent, solution, 50% Methanol – lab grade Mineral oil Nickel nitrate 6-hydrate, laboratory, crystal Nitric acid, reagent acs, solution, (~15.8 m) Developed by California Science Teachers Association to support the implementation of the California Next Generation Science Standards. Approved by the CSTA Board of Directors November 17, 2015. Quantity per lab group Quantity per classroom/ adjacent work area 500 g 5g 25 g 1,500 mL 500 g 1L 500 g 500 g 500 g 100g 500 g 1 kg 100 g 100 g 100 g 2.5 kg 100 g 2.5 kg 1,500 g 500 g 100 g 1,500 g 100 lb 500 g 100 g 100 g 500 g 500 g 500 g 500 g 500 g 500 g 500 mL 500 mL 100 g 500 g Description Oxalic acid dihydrate, laboratory, crystal Phenol red Phenolphthalein, laboratory, powder Phenolphthalein, laboratory, solution, 1.0% (alcoholic) Potassium bromide, reagent, crystal Potassium hydroxide, laboratory, solution, 2.0 m Potassium iodate, laboratory, powder Potassium nitrite, reagent, crystal Potassium permanganate Potassium thiocyanate Potassium thiocyanate reagent grade – crystal Sand Silver nitrate Sodium (metal) Sodium acetate Sodium bicarbonate, laboratory, powder Sodium bromide, reagent, crystal Sodium carbonate anhydrous, laboratory, granular Sodium chloride granular – reagent grade Sodium citrate Sodium fluoride, reagent, powder Sodium hydroxide, laboratory, pellet Sodium metabisulfate Sodium phosphate tribasic Sodium phosphate (dibasic) Sodium phosphate (monobasic) Sodium sulfate Sodium thiosulfate Starch, soluble powder Strontium chloride 6-hydrate, laboratory, granular Sucrose Sulfur Sulfuric acid, reagent acs, solution, (~18 m) Universal indicator Zinc Zinc nitrate 6-hydrate, laboratory, crystalline flakes Developed by California Science Teachers Association to support the implementation of the California Next Generation Science Standards. Approved by the CSTA Board of Directors November 17, 2015.