Category Archive for: Lab Safety

#49 – How we make learning lab equipment fun! (a CER Activity)

How do you teach students about lab equipment? Some teachers merely hand out an equipment list with pictures and labels and ask students to memorize it. There’s nothing wrong with that. It gets the job done (especially if all a teacher wants us to be able to identify and name equipment). But, is there a…

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#39 – Bottled Water is toxic! (and other ways to make hazardous household product labels fun to learn)

How do you make learning hazardous household product symbols & categories fun? Make it relevant and interesting, of course. But, how do we do that? How do we make hazardous household product symbols relevant and interesting? Some may argue that these symbols are already relevant because they are there to keep us safe. That may…

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#1 – How to Create a Buzz when Teaching Lab Safety (Hint: Coffee is involved)

Teaching lab safety is – how shall I say it – extremely boring to teach. Lab safety is also a buzzkill – a wet blanket extinguishing the excitement we want to build at the beginning of the year. We start the year telling students how engaging, active and relevant science is in their life. Then,…

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