Lab Safety Lab
$7.00
An engaging lab activity designed to help students engage in safe practices and behaviors in a laboratory and properly deal with accidents during a laboratory investigation.
Description
SNAPs Lab Stations Activities require students to use science, math, literacy, problem-solving and engineering skills. They are designed to enhance students’ understanding of scientific concepts and help students apply scientific ideas to the real world. Each station activity promotes skills so to develop students into proficient and competent scientific thinkers.
SNAPs lab activities have five components:
• Science Skills Station to develop science skill proficiency
• Narrative Station to build science literacy
• Assessment Station to evaluate learning and understanding
• Problem-Solving Station to foster engineering design
• Synthesis Station and Project to inspire higher-order learning
DIGITAL LABORATORY – DISTANCE LEARNING & DIGITAL CLASSROOMS
• This lab is offered in a digital format to support digital classrooms & distance learning.
• The digital lab activity is designed to work with Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint
• The digital lab activity CANNOT be edited. However:
– Students can manipulate text boxes
– Students can create tables, graphs and diagrams
– Students can insert images and drawings
GOOGLE FORM ASSESSMENT STATION
• The assessment station is offered as a self-grading Google Form.
• Questions are all short answer and are 100% editable.
• Suggestions for use are included in the download.
DISTANCE LEARNING COMPATIBILITY
SNAPs lab activities are rated for their ease with distance – independent learning. Refer to the preview for more information about how well this laboratory works in a fully digital classroom and with distance learning.
EDITABLE DOCUMENTS
This download includes an editable word document (docx file) of all lab components:
• Pre-Lab and Post-Lab Activities
• The Lab Overview
• Lab Station Activities and Questions
• Directed Synthesis Project (when applicable)
Important Notes:
• Diagrams, illustrations, tables and graphs essential to lab activities are included
• Illustrative clipart is NOT included
• Editable documents and rubrics are included with the FREE SNAPs Setup Guide
Editable files allow you to:
• Edit the scope of the activities so to suit your students’ needs
• Edit the materials required based on resource availability
• Create single-period “mini-labs” using activities at the individual skills stations
The activities at each station in this lab are detailed below.
Lab Safety Lab Stations Activity Learning Objectives
1. Identify equipment that is important to lab safety.
2. Analyze and interpret warning signs and symbols that help keep students safe during investigations.
3. Discuss safe practices and behaviors in a laboratory.
4. Discuss the consequences of unsafe practices and behavior during a laboratory investigation or activity.
5. Problem-solve how to deal with accidents during a laboratory investigation.
6. Create a policy of safety rules and procedures that ensure everyone and everything remains safe during a laboratory activity.
Science Skills Station
Students will observe and describe different pieces of lab safety equipment so to understand when and how to use them. Students will also analyze and interpret warning signs and symbols that help keep students safe during laboratory investigations.
Narrative Station
Students will watch a video about lab safety at this station. The video highlights important rules and procedures that should be followed during lab investigations and activities. Students will create a code of conduct or set of rules and procedures that students should follow so to keep everyone and everything safe during a lab activity.
Assessment Station
At this station, students will answer questions about key terms and ideas relating to lab safety rules and procedures. Students must employ lower, mid and higher order thinking skills to answer these questions.
Problem-Solving Station
Students will apply problem-solving skills to determine how to deal with accidents during lab investigations. Students will discuss how to handle those accidents safely and what can occur when those accidents are not dealt with appropriately. They will also compare and contrast safe and unsafe practices and behaviors in a laboratory setting.
Synthesis Station
Students will compose a CER (claim-evidence-reasoning) report to summarize the lab. Students are provided the claim statement and must support the claim with observations, data and other information gathered in the lab. Students will explain how the evidence supports the claim using scientific reasoning.
Synthesis Project
Students will have a choice of 11 projects. Refer to the SNAPs Lab Stations Best Practices and Setup Guide for directions and suggestions on how to conduct the project.
This download includes:
• A pre-lab assignment and post-lab reflection
• Directions and questions for each lab station
• Student recording sheets
• Teacher Key
Additional Materials Required:
1 Computer or tablet
1 Set of colored pencils
2-3 Ziploc bags
Goggles (optional)
Gloves (optional)
Lab coat (optional)
Fire extinguisher (optional)
Fire blanket (optional)
First aid kit (optional)
Eyewash station (optional)
Safety shower (optional)
8 Index cards (optional)
String, yarn or twine (optional)
LINKS TO VIDEOS
This laboratory requires internet to access videos. Videos are hosted on SafeShare.TV so to safely watch and share educational YouTube videos without ads, comments and other distractions. Shortened and full link(s) to SafeShare.TV included. Full link to original YouTube video(s) included.
NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS
The concepts and skills addressed in this product align with the NGSS Nature of Science eight major themes. This product addresses themes that extend the science and engineering practices and cross-cutting concepts across grades 3-5 and 6-8. These practices are outlined in Appendix F and H at http://www.nextgenscience.org/get-to-know.
TERMS OF USE
• All rights reserved by Stephanie Elkowitz.
• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.
• Intended for classroom and personal use only.
• Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.
• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.
• Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
