Lab Safety

The directions for a lab show the goggle symbol. What should you do?

• Wear your goggles the entire time

• Wear your goggle part of the time

• Use the goggles to pull back your hair

If glass equipment is broken you should do what first?

• Pick up the glass so no one gets hurt

• Tell the custodian

• Tell your teacher

Jill is getting ready to do a science experiment with some other students. Jill wants to be safe during the experiment. Which of these should Jill not do?

• tie her loose hair back
• take off her long necklace
• make sure she is wearing shoes that completely cover her feet
• get a snack ready to eat during the experiment

Fooling around in the lab, throwing things, and doing unauthorized experiments are all:

• Not dangerous
• Great if you have time
• Always against the rules
• Ok every other Tuesday

You enter the classroom and no teacher is inside. You see the lab supplies and directions. A classmate begins working, eager to get started and impress the teacher

• safe

• unsafe

Safe or Unsafe: Grace thought a substance smelled weird so he took a deep whiff of it. He didn’t think it smelled poisonous and tasted a little bit of the substance.

• safe

• unsafe

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is an example of proper lab safety?

• Running around the lab

• Eating a burrito in lab

• Wearing goggles and gloves at all times

• Wearing birks to lab

I must follow all instructions, written and verbal, about the laboratory procedures given by the teacher.

• True
• False

Before leaving the lab you should always wash or sanitize your hands.

• True 
• False

Choose the correct word to complete the lab safety rule.

Wash your__________ with soap and water before leaving class.

• eyes

• hands