LESSON PLAN : LAB SAFETYANNA PINA

LESSON OBJECTIVES•60 minute lesson •TEKS - (8.1) A. demonstrate safe practices during laboratory and field investigations as outlined in the Texas Safety Standards •Objective - “Today, I will learn to use safe practices during laboratory and field investigations. “

TEXAS COLLEGE AND CAREERS READINESS STANDARDS

• Science Standards• 1. Nature of Science: Scientific Ways of Learning

and Thinking •C. Collaborative and safe working practices• 2. Understand and apply safe procedures in

the laboratory and field, including chemical, electrical and fire safety and safe handling of live or preserved organisms

VOCABULARY •Flammable – easily set on fire, inflammable •Corrosive – eating away, harmful, destructive •MSDS – Material Safety Data Sheet, procedures for handling or working with that material in a safe manner •Reagents – a substance used in chemical reactions

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THE HOOK•10 minutes •Explain some of the labs we will be doing throughout the school year.•Explain than before we can do these labs we have to learn safe laboratory practices.•Hand out the Flinn Student Safety Contracts to go over.

FLINN STUDENT SAFETY CONTRACT

THE LESSON • 40 minutes• Go through each “rule” and use demonstrations to emphasize

important ones. • # 10 – Keep aisles clear. Push your chair under the desk

when no in use. • Demonstrate what to do if some one needs to be escorted to the eye

wash or shower and how clutters aisles can be problematic.

• # 23 – Any time chemicals, heat or glassware are used, students will wear laboratory goggles. • Have students guess how far the pipette will shoot water or have

volunteers engage in a competition and explain how this relates to the rule

• # 25 – Long hair must be tied back…• Have students guess how fast it will take for the hair to ignite

• # 28 – if you or your lab partner are hurt, immediately yell out “Code one, Code one” to get the instructors attention.• Instruct and demonstrate to students as to what to do in this situation.

• # 31 – All chemicals in the laboratory are to be considered dangerous. • Have students hypothesize as to what is going to happen during the

reaction.

ASSESSMENT • The next day have an oral quiz with the students by

giving them different laboratory scenarios and asking what the student in the scenario is doing wrong what actions they should take. • Ex. A student with long hair (or loose clothing) is heating a

solution over a Bunsen burner. As the student leans over the burner to reach for something, their hair (or clothing) catches fire.• What did the student do wrong? What actions should they take now?

MISCONCEPTIONS •“Flammable and Inflammable are opposites”•“The chemicals we used aren’t dangerous” •“I can take off my goggles as long as my group is done with the experiment” •“It is ok to put unused chemicals back into the bottle”•“It is ok to dump all chemicals down the drain”

ELPS AND SPED • ELPS• c2D: Monitor understanding and seek clarification• c2E: Use visual, contextual linguistic support to

confirm and enhance understanding

• SPED•Using visual examples and demonstrations • Seating in the front where the demonstrations are

taking place

MATERIALS AND SAFETY GUIDELINES • Flinn Student Safety Contract• Pipette• Clean water• Goggles• Hair (real or synthetic)

• Matches or lighter• Paper towels • 2 Beakers• Sulfuric Acid • Sugar

• Hair burning and sulfuric acid demonstration must be performed in a properly working fume hood

• Have one beaker filled with water inside the fume hood to put out the fire from the hair

MSDS FOR SULFURIC ACID

REFERENCES

• Flinn Student Safety Contract • https://www.google.com/url?

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• Lab Safety Scenarios• www.manningsscience.com/uploads/8/6/8/1/.../ labsafetyscenariosws.doc

• Sulfuric Acid MSDS • wwwsci.seastarchemicals.com/safety/03SulphuricMSDSRev201109.pdf