Lab Safety Challenge #1
Cooperative Learning Expectations
• Know and do your Job
• Use low Voices
• Listen to all ideas
• Its OK to Think
• Use Encouraging Words
• Help others in your group
• You are Responsible for your own
behavior
Lab Expectations
1) Enter the room quietly and go to your assigned seat.
2) Listen quietly to all directions. Ask questions if you are
unsure.
3) Stay in your seat unless directed to get up. Avoid
horseplay.
4) Follow directions of the lab.
5) Never eat or drink in the lab.
6) Clean up all messes immediately.
7) Wear goggles when you heat anything or mix
chemicals
8) Use the equipment with care.
9) Clean up lab area before you leave.
Lab Safety Challenge #1
What’s wrong? Identify 6 different
safety concerns shown in the picture below.
What’s wrong? Identify 9 different safety
concerns shown in the picture below.
Image: http://morrisonlabs.com/lab_safety.htm
The answers are …
Don’t fool around
during a lab.
Always point test tubes and other
items away from yourself and
others when heating.
Don’t eat or drink
while in the lab.
Keep hair and other
flammable objects
away from flames.
Don’t leave a flame
unattended.
Always wear safety
goggles when doing
an experiment
The answers are …
Always wear
safety goggles
during a lab.
Don’t smell directly from
a container - WAFT.
Don’t heat closed
containers.
Keep your lab area
neat and clean.
Don’t place lab materials
Unplug equipment
near the edge of the table.
when not in use.
Don’t leave
materials laying
on the floor.
Keep papers and other
flammable objects away
from flames.
Clean up spills immediately
Image: http://morrisonlabs.com/lab_safety.htm
Lab Safety Challenge #1
Science Safety
T. Trimpe 2008 http://sciencespot.net/
Can you unscramble all the phrases below?
Hint: They are all related to safety.
1. R A W E O L G E G S G
2. F W T A, not F W F H I
3. S H A W O R U Y N H A S D
4. L O F L W O I E C R D I T O N S
5. O D T N’ O L F O R U O N A D
The answers are ...
1. R AWEAR
WE O
LGEGSG
GOGGLES
2. F WWAFT,
T A, not
F WHIFF
WFHI
not
3. S HWASH
AW N
H A SHANDS
D
YOUR
4. L O FFOLLOW
L W O IDIRECTIONS
ECRDITONS
FOOL
5. O D TDON’T
N’ O L
F O AROUND
R U O NAD