Science Safety

What should you wear to protect your eyes during science experiments?

• gloves

• open-toed shoes

• goggles

• ear plugs

Why are approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) 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

You should never ______ chemicals in the lab. 

• taste

• look at

• smell
• use

When you finish working with chemicals, biological specimens, and other lab substances, always -

• treat your hands with skin lotion
• wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water
• wipe your hands on a towel
• wipe your hands on your clothes

What process to smell chemicals is this person doing

• sniffing 
• snorting 
• wafting 
• wifting 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

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 starting.

• 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.

Horseplay, practical jokes, or pranks in the classroom are

• always against the rules.

• okay.

• not dangerous.

• okay if you are working alone.

Work areas should be kept clean and tidy.

• True

• False