PLTW Lab Safety Review Game

1. If a fire erupts, immediately____.

• notify the teacher

• run for the fire extinguisher

• throw water on the fire

• open the window

2. 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

3. 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

4. After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be _____.

• left at your lab station for the next class

• disposed of according to your teacher's directions

• dumped in the sink

• taken home

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

5. You have been injured in the laboratory (cut, burned, etc.). First you should _____.

• visit the school nurse after class

• see a doctor after school

• tell the teacher at once

• apply first aid yourself

6. 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.

7. Which of the following should NOT be worn during a laboratory activity?

• loose clothing

• dangling jewelry

• sandals

• All of the above

8. Horseplay, practical jokes, or pranks in the classroom are _____.

• always against the rules

• okay

• not dangerous

• okay if you are working alone

9. When handling animals, students should _____.

• open cages only with permission

• not tease or handle animals roughly

• report bites or scratches to the teacher immediately

• All of the above

10. If a piece of equipment is not working properly, stop, turn it off, and tell _____.

• the principal

• your lab partner

• your best friend in the class

• the teacher