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Lab Incident at a Manhattan High School: Another Hard Safety Lesson to Learn
On January 2, 2014, a chemistry lab safety incident involving a fire injured students at Beacon High School in Manhattan (NYC). An article in The New York Times reported that two students were burned as a result of a fireball of methanol vapor create...
By Kenneth Roy
Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Eating in the Lab: A Recipe for Disaster
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the rules associated with eating in the science laboratory....
Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Pregnant and Safe in the Lab
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses how to be safe in the lab while pregnant....
Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Safety in Videos
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue addresses safety issues that accompany the increased access to and use of experiments found in videos....
Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Wave Warnings
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses safety when using equipment that is used to provide students with a better understanding of light, sound, and wave energy....
NSTA Press Book
Science Fair Warm-Up, Grades 7–10: Learning the Practice of Scientists
To the teacher: Although this book is intended as a guide for your students, NSTA has you covered as well! Science Fair Warm-Up, Teachers Guide: Learning the Practice of Scientists provides all of the information you need to guide your students t...
By John Haysom
NSTA Press Book
Science Fair Warm-Up, Grades 8–12: Learning the Practice of Scientists
To the teacher: Although this book is intended as a guide for your students, NSTA has you covered as well! Science Fair Warm-Up, Teachers Guide: Learning the Practice of Scientists provides all of the information you need to guide your students t...
By John Haysom
NSTA Press Book
The NSTA Ready-Reference Guide to Safer Science, Volume 3
"The changing safety legal standards and professional best practices affecting academic laboratories are efforts to match the rise of modern science's discoveries and applications. Unfortunately, teacher preservice preparation and inservice professio...
By Kenneth Russell Roy