Virginia Department of Education
Laboratory Safety and Skills
Avoiding lab safety rules will not give you super powers. The lesson opens with a demonstration of not following safety rules. Then, young chemists practice their lab safety while finding the mass of each item in a mixture and trying to...
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Cooperative Learning Experience Through the Flipping Lid Demo
Students create a cartoon illustrating a lab demonstration. In this lab safety instructional activity, the teacher demonstrates a small methane explosion to demonstrate the importance of safety in a laboratory setting, then students work...
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National Chemistry Week
National Chemistry Week lessons enliven classroom science investigations.
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data. In this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets.