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Lab Safety Worksheet
Lab classes present unique challenges and opportunities. This worksheet can help students understand safe lab practices and good techniques.
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4 Engaging Lab Safety Activities
The back-to-school year in science class usually involves a unit on lab safety. However, after students have been exposed to the rules of staying safe in the lab, finding new ways to engage students in lab safety activities can be challenging.
If you are a science teacher looking for new ways to keep students interested in lab safety, check out these ideas below:
Fun Lab Safety Activities
1. zombie college lab safety video:.
Students are always interested in zombies, so why not integrate them into your lab safety unit?
This video from Zombie College includes a video about what can happen when lab safety procedures aren’t followed.
In addition to the10 minute lab safety video, there is a video game, student materials including:
- word scramble
- 5 rules of lab safety worksheet
and a music video on the 5 rules of lab safety.
This website can fulfill all your teaching needs depending on how long you need to spend going over ways to stay safe in your classroom laboratory.
Note to teacher : While I have shown this video to grade 7 and 8 students, please view it first to decide if it is appropriate for your student audience.
2. Student Created Video Lab Safety Activity
- Identifying the chosen lab safety rule
- State reasons why it is important to follow this rule in the classroom.
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"Eye" Know Lab Safety Activity
This lab activity will integrate the safety rules into a fun experiment. This activity would engage students on the first days of school or as an introduction to your lab safety unit.
Many students may not understand the need for goggles in the classroom. This eye protection lab uses:
- Petri dishes
to teach students the importance of keeping their eyes safe during lab experiences.
To complete this science experiment,
- use the marker to draw an eyeball at the bottom of the Petri dish.
- Then, put one egg white in each of the dishes.
- Pour water into one dish.
- Pour alcohol into the other dish.
This activity will excite students while teaching them about the importance of lab safety.
Are you looking for more activities to use with your students? This unit includes unique ways to teach students to stay safe in the science laboratory and classroom. It includes classroom decor and activities to introduce, teach, and reinforce concepts related to safety.
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7 Free Printable Lab Safety Rules Posters
Safety first!
Working in the lab is often one of the most exciting parts of science class. But with great excitement comes great responsibility! To keep things safe, there are some rules every single lab user needs to follow. Of course you’ll attempt to ingrain these lab safety rules into their minds at the beginning of the semester, but you can’t be too careful when it comes to dangerous chemicals and sharp tools.
That’s why we’ve created these free printable posters. Hang them around the lab and review them regularly so students experience hands-on learning in the safest possible way.
1. Dress appropriately, remove dangling jewelry, and tie up long hair.
Professional scientists often wear lab coats, but your students probably don’t have these. This might mean they need to roll up loose or flowing sleeves and take off bracelets, rings, or long necklaces. Make sure they secure long hair, too, so it doesn’t accidentally dip into chemicals or get too near a Bunsen burner.
2. Wear required safety equipment properly at all times.
You’re going to get some pushback on this one, especially from older kids who think the safety goggles make them look goofy. But this generation should already know how (and why) to wear a face mask, and they can follow the same rules for goggles or gloves.
3. No food or drink in the lab area.
This includes water bottles! There are just too many opportunities for cross-contamination. Provide students with cubbies or room at their desks to store items like these, and allow breaks as needed for them to step away from their lab tables for a water break or quick snack.
4. Don’t sniff, taste, or touch chemicals or other supplies.
Most kids probably won’t try to taste random things, but there are always one or two who just have to try. Be sure students know that it’s not only tasting things that can cause serious problems. Even sniffing vapors can be risky, and many chemicals can cause skin reactions or worse. If they don’t believe you, show them a few pictures of people who didn’t follow this important rule.
5. Know where to find and how to use emergency equipment.
Every student should learn where you keep fire extinguishers, eyewash stations, and other safety equipment on their very first visit to the lab. Provide some practice using these when possible, or show video demos instead. Regularly review the locations of safety equipment so kids don’t forget about it over time.
6. Report any spills, accidents, or broken items to your teacher immediately.
Make sure students know they won’t get into trouble for accidental spills or breakages. If they’re worried about consequences, they might keep quiet, and that’s the worst thing they can do. Encourage them to speak up right away if there’s an accident, and thank them publicly when they do.
7. Clean up thoroughly and dispose of waste appropriately.
When their time in the lab is done, show students where to safely store unused supplies and how to completely clean their stations. Ensure they know how to dispose of any hazardous materials and always finish by washing their hands thoroughly.
More Lab Safety Rules
The lab safety posters above cover all of the major rules, but here are a few more general rules you may want to cover with your class.
Work carefully, responsibly, and with respect for yourself and others.
When kids are up and out of their seats, they often tend to fool around and be silly. The lab’s not the place for that though. Students need to take things seriously and remember that they’re responsible not only for their own safety, but that of everyone else around them.
Pay attention to and follow all directions exactly.
In the lab, it’s more important than ever that kids know what they’re doing before they start. Remind them to ask questions any time they’re unsure about something, rather than just guessing. And no playing mad scientist! Going rogue in the lab can be extremely dangerous, so let students know you have zero tolerance for that kind of thing.
Leave all lab supplies and equipment in the lab when you’re done.
It’s going to be very tempting for some students to walk off with lab equipment, chemicals, or even dissected animal parts (so gross, but some kids can’t seem to help themselves). But the lab is kind of like Las Vegas—everything that happens in the science lab needs to stay there. Containing potentially dangerous items in one space is the only way to keep the whole school as safe as possible.
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Lab Safety Lesson Plan: Planning and Carrying out Investigations
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Lab Safety , and supports the standard of demonstrating safe practices during lab investigations. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Display a picture of someone working in a laboratory, like this:
Ask students:
- What do you notice?
- How is this scientist using safe laboratory practices?
- What else could this scientist do to be safer in the lab?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Read the description on the Lab Safety topic page .
- Play the Movie , pausing to check for understanding.
- Assign Related Reading and have students read one of the articles. Partner them with someone who read a different article to share what they learned with each other.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Assign Lab Safety Challenge and Quiz , prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about lab safety while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
- Make-a-Movie : Produce a PSA advocating for safe lab practices. In your PSA, answer this question: What are the potential consequences of not following these rules?
- Make-a-Map : Make a concept map identifying the steps to safely conducting a laboratory investigation.
- Creative Coding : Code a meme representing how to safely work with chemicals in a laboratory.
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Lab Safety Signs Worksheets
A lab without lab safety signs is a dangerous place! It’s even worse if there are signs, but you don’t know what they mean. Download or print these lab safety signs worksheets to practice identifying the safety symbols.
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Video | Lab Safety | Elementary School, High School, Middle School
Video 1: Safety Mindset
The chemistry lab is an amazing place! Through experiments and demonstrations your high school students have been discovering that chemistry is more than just a collection of facts and formulas-- it’s a way of observing and understanding the very real properties of matter all around them. However, the lab can also be a dangerous place. Contrary to what your students might have seen in films and TV, safety is a core value of chemistry—it is essential to everything they do in the lab. It begins with their mindset, the attitudes and beliefs they bring to class with them every day. Use this video to introduce your students to elements of safe importance of safety mindset in the chemistry lab.
Video 2: Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
Preparation and planning are key to working in the chemistry lab. To be prepared, your students must understand the hazards of any chemicals they will be working with. The place to find that information is the Safety Data Sheet or SDS. The SDS provides detailed information about the properties of a chemical, its hazards, and how to protect yourself from those hazards. Use this video, to guide your students through 16 sections of the SDS for isopropyl alcohol to demonstrate importance of SDS information.
Video 3: How to Dress for the Lab? And what about Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) for short is one of the main ways for you and your students to stay protected from injury in the lab. PPE includes things like goggles, gloves, lab coats or aprons. These are designed to protect eyes, hands and skin, as well as clothing, from exposure to chemicals. PPE is the most obvious way of preventing contact with chemicals--but it is not the first line of defense. Use these video to teach your students that before they put on any PPE, why they should dress properly for lab.
Video 4: Preparing for Emergencies
There is an old saying that you should always plan for the best, but prepare for the worst. This is good advice in the lab as well. Use this video to teach your students about two lab emergencies that carry a high risk of injury--spills and fires. The videos describes concrete steps to prevent these emergencies and goes over some of the safety equipment used to deal with them.
Video 5: RAMP (For Students)
Use this video to teach your students a simple yet powerful tool for protecting you and your classmates in the lab. The tool is called RAMP. RAMP stands for: Recognize hazards; Assess risks; Minimize risks and Prepare for emergencies.
Video 6: RAMP (For Teachers)
As a teacher, there are steps you can take to make sure your students are as safe as possible while exploring and experimenting in the lab. In this video, we discuss some ideas to help you to set up a safe lab experiment. We use RAMP, the acronym for lab safety. RAMP stands for Recognize hazards; Assess risks; Minimize risks and Prepare for emergencies. RAMP is a simple yet powerful tool to help you prepare for and safely carry out any lab activity with your students.
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In this lesson, students learn the safe way of operating in the forensic science labs. Students will be expected to create lab safety posters as well as complete an MSDS activity for various chemicals.
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Student-Led Discussion Divide your class into 6 groups. Assign a scenario to each group. Ask the students to discuss inappropriate laboratory behaviors depicted in their scenario. Each group then discusses with the rest of the class the behaviors/activities depicted in their scenario.
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This lab is estimated to take 0.5 to 1 hour. The purpose of this module is to introduce lab safety to yourclassroom via common lab safety rules and a lab safety activity. It may be modified to meet the needs of your individual laboratory or classroom. The video in the student resources can be shown in the classroom (4:54) or ask students to ...
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