Lab Safety Word Search

Electromagnetic radiation behaves like both a wave and a particle. Help classes explore this concept through a lab investigation. Young scientists create optical interference patterns on a glass slide using a carbon layer. They analyze...

Students prepare for working in a laboratory to conduct experiments. In this laboratory safety precautions instructional activity, students identify apparatus, discuss procedures, label and use equipment accurately. A quiz is provided. 

Sharks are so cool, they have their own week! Take young zoologists on a journey into one of the most amazing creatures on the planet. A lesson plan from K20 engages them in a full dissection. After the lab, continue the learning through...

What an exciting way to introduce your blossoming chemists to the world of metals, nonmetals, metalloids, and polymers! Here is a lab activity that is designed to allow pupils the opportunity to visualize the reaction of metals,...

High schoolers describe the importance of following lab safety. In this chemistry lesson, students identify the different lab apparatus and describe their uses. They discuss the meaning of different lab safety symbols.

Searching for a simple igneous rocks experiment to assist pupils with rock classification based on texture and composition? In the activity, pupils view multiple rocks in various ways to determine texture and composition. They then...

Though an alternative method is suggested, the best way to carry out this investigation is with the use of a computer-interfaced motion detector. Physics fanatics hang a mass on the end of a spring and analyze its motion verbally,...

Students discuss and design a lab to measure pH of limestone, pyrite, limestone-pyrite mixtures and their control. They have their labs approved by the instructor before they begin. Students preform the lab and explore the acid-base...

Students discuss why safety is important in the lab. In this science lesson, students watch a video podcast on lab safety. They post their thoughts and comments on their class blog. A lab quiz is given at the end of the unit.

Let there be light. The last installment of a seven-part series has pupils conduct an experiment on light attenuation through different numbers of transparency sheets. They then relate the results back to how X-rays measure bone density.