1. Topic #1: Lab Safety
Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?

2. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Always follow the teacher’s directions exactly and only do lab work when a teacher is present.
Lab Safety Rule # 2
-Conduct yourself in a responsible manner at all times. No horseplay!

3. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Do not touch any equipment, chemicals, or other materials until told to do so.
Lab Safety Rule # 4
Do not eat food, drink beverages, or chew gum in the lab.
Do not use lab glassware as food or beverage containers.

4. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Lab Safety Rule # 5 Report ALL accidents to your teacher immediately, even if you think it is minor.

5. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Clothing
Wear:
Goggles/safety glasses
Closed-toed shoes
Clothing made of natural based fiber such as cotton
Tie back long hair
Do NOT Wear:
Sandals
Jewelry
Loose or Baggy clothing

6. First ask your teacher where/how to dispose of waste.
Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Waste Disposal
First ask your teacher where/how to dispose of waste.
Never pour anything down the drain unless you are told to do so.
A waste container will be supplied for substance that cannot go down the drain

7. Now take some time…
Take 2 minutes to go over your notes and highlight or underline the main ideas that answer the essential question, you should not highlight everything:
What are the lab safety rules and why are they important?

8. Time to use the left hand column
Let’s write questions that go with what we highlighted or underlined

9. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Always follow the teacher’s directions exactly and only do lab work when a teacher is present.
Lab Safety Rule # 2
-Conduct yourself in a responsible manner at all times. No horseplay!
What is the first and most important lab safety rule?
How should I conduct myself at all times?

10. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Do not touch any equipment, chemicals, or other materials until told to do so.
Lab Safety Rule # 4
Do not eat food, drink beverages, or chew gum in the lab.
Do not use lab glassware as food or beverage containers.
When am I allowed to handle materials, am I allowed to eat them if they are edible?

11. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Lab Safety Rule # 5 Report ALL accidents to your teacher immediately, even if you think it is minor.
Who do I report any accident to?

12. Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Clothing
Wear:
Goggles/safety glasses
Closed-toed shoes
Clothing made of natural based fiber such as cotton
Tie back long hair
Do NOT Wear:
Sandals
Jewelry
Loose or Baggy clothing
What 2 things that I have to wear, and 2 things I cannot wear?

13. First ask your teacher where/how to dispose of waste.
Topic: Lab Safety Essential Question: What are lab safety rules and why are they important?
Waste Disposal
First ask your teacher where/how to dispose of waste.
Never pour anything down the drain unless you are told to do so.
A waste container will be supplied for substance that cannot go down the drain
When should I pour something down the drain?

14. Now let’s write a summary
The summary is the answers to the questions you wrote in the left hand column:
What is the first and most important lab safety rule?
How should I conduct myself at all times?
When am I allowed to handle materials, and am I allowed to eat them if they are edible?
What 2 things that I have to wear, and 2 things I cannot wear?
Who do I report any accident to?
When should I pour something down the drain?