Science Safety

Why are approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) are worn in the lab?

• A. To improve your vision
• B. To make you look like a bug
•  C. To give you headaches
•  D. To protect eyes around chemicals, heat, or glassware

You have been injured in the lab (cut, burned, etc.) First you should -

• apply first aid yourself
• tell the teacher at once
• see a doctor after school
• visit the school nurse after class

What should you do with chemicals leftover after an experiment?

• Follow the directions of the teacher
• Carefully pour them down the sink
• Throw them into the trash can
• Leave them on the table

Cleaning up the science classroom is the job of -

• each student
• new students
• the teacher
• old students

The most important thing during lab experiments is

• neatness
• finishing first
• safety
• getting the correct answer

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

You should never ______ chemicals in the lab. 

• taste
• write about

• smell
• use

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Always point the open end of a test tube

• toward yourself
• toward your lab partner
• toward another classmate
• away from people

If a fire erupts, immediately

• notify the teacher.

• run for the fire extinguisher.

• throw water on the fire.

• open the windows.

If you do not understand a direction or part of a laboratory procedure, you should

• figure it out as you do the lab.

• try several methods until something works.

• ask the teacher before proceeding.

• skip it and go on to the next part.

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• cut short.

• held away from the experiment with one hand.

• always neatly groomed.

• tied back or kept entirely out of the way with a hair band, etc.