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Science Safety

Finally my first Science class of the year! I have been waiting for this moment all Summer. I sit down in a chair beside my best friend. Then our teacher came in and told us that we were going to be doing a lab on the first day. I got so nervous. He said that we should know all the equipment names and how they are used. I looked to my best friend beside me and both of us started sweating. As we started our teacher said that we should get to our lab and find a triple beam balance and I was thinking to myself how should I know what that is. Then our teacher asked if anybody knew what that was and nobody put their hand up so he decided to call on me. I said I didn’t know what it was so I said isn’t it used to measure mass and grams. He said that’s correct. I felt so proud of myself.

After we weighed some objects our teacher said since we were behaving so well that he would give us another bonus lab. Everyone was so excited but this one he said was dangerous and if we weren’t careful we could seriously hurt ourselves. So our teacher told us to get our safety goggles on which is used to protect your eyes if some chemical were to splash in to them. We got out our Bunson Burners, which is a pice of equipment that produces a single open gas flame. We put that on our ring stand which is used to keep your Bunson Burners at rest so they don’t go on the table and burn the table. After we started the flame, a female student went too close to ours and because she didn’t have her hair tied back, it caught on fire and she was running around. Everyone in class was yelling at her to go under the emergency shower so she did and her hair was a disgusting black. After we finished the lab, the glass beaker was still hot so we had to use beaker tongs which is used for handling hot beakers. The next day in science class some kids asked if I wanted to play catch with a beaker and I said no because I didn’t want to get in trouble and they were making fun of me because I didn’t want to get in trouble. After they ended up breaking it and they had to pay for the whole thing. Science safety is something you always need to be aware of.

This WHMIS symbol is flammable

This WHMIS symbol means it is biohazardnes.