Science Safety

If a fire erupts, what are your options

• Notify the nearest teacher

• Call APS Maintenance Department

• Advise everyone in the classroom Fire Emergency and leave the room

• Leave all doors and windows open

Approved eye protection devices (such as

goggles) are worn in the laboratory

• To avoid eye strain

• To improve your vision

• Only if you do not have corrective glasses

• Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware are

  used

If you do not understand a direction or part

of a laboratory procedure, you should

• Refer back to the stem booklet for directions

• Use any methods until something

  works

• Ask the teacher before proceeding

• Simply go on to the next part

After completing an experiment, all chemical

wastes should be

• Dump all materials in the sink

• Taken all of it home

• Safely disposed of equipment according to your teacher’s

  directions

• Left at your lab station for the next class

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

You have been injured in the laboratory (cut,

burned, etc.). First you should

• Apply first aid yourself

• Tell the teacher at once

• Dial 911 immediately

• See the Nurse after school.

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• Held away from the experiment with one

  hand

• Combed, Styled, or Neatly groomed

• Tied back, kept entirely out of the way, or with a hair band

• In a method approved by the Head Principal

Choose the Best Answer.

Which of the following should NOT be worn

during a laboratory activity?

• Loose clothing

• Dangling jewelry

• Slides or sandals

• All of the above

Horseplay, practical jokes, or pranks in the

classroom are

• Not dangerous if the experiment uses Natural Gas

• Its okay if you are working alone

• Always welcome

• Always prohibited in the science classroom

When handling animals, students should always

• report bites or scratches to the teacher

  immediately

• open cages for venomous rodents only

• tease or handle animals roughly

• All of the above

If a piece of equipment is not working

properly, stop, turn it off, and tell

• the teacher

• your best friend in the class

• your lab partner

• the nearest 6 or 8 grade science teacher