Gas Cylinders and Safety

Case Study | October 2006

Safety, risk and hazards

Blog Post | September 2016

As preschool and child care continue and a new school year begins, it’s a good time to refresh our memories about safety practices. Goggles are not common in early childhood programs but they should be. Children love to…

Safety and substitute teachers

Blog Post | May 2014

We had an incident in a high school physical science class where the substitute teacher left the room and several students engaged in dangerous behaviors with gas jets and flames. Fortunately, no one was injured and no…

Safety in the science lab

Blog Post | April 2012

Every month, our colleague Ken Roy shares important information about safety in the science classrooms and laboratories. His columns appear in Science Scope and The Science Teacher. These are “must-reads” for science…

Lab safety question

Blog Post | February 2011

I started my first full-time teaching position this semester—high school biology. According to the students, they did not do many labs last semester. I’m eager to do inquiry activities with my students, and obviously I…