Please share your teaching resources and lesson plans for the classroom and laboratory safety here.
Safety workshops that focus on YOUR state and the needs of K-12 teachers. These workshops are the most comprehensive science safety workshops offered in the country. They include a resource CD designed in conjunction with the top safety educators in the country. Fifteen states have versions of the CD designed to include the state specific laws, codes, and standards - the only resource of its type in the country. For more information contact JaKel, Inc. by visiting http://showcase.netins.net/web/jakel/
Summer 2008 Level 1 & Level 2 Science Safety Seminars Go to: http://www.sciencesafetyconsulting.com
to download registration and announcement forms.
- Level 1 Summer Science Safety Facilitators Seminar - July 13-18, 2008, Raleigh Sheraton Hotel.
Speakers:
KELLY RYAN - Nationally known school law attorney and renown author of: Science Classroon Safety and the Law
John Palassis, NIOSH, Cincinnati, Ohio - Federal regulations, Lab Safety Standard, HazCom Standards and other OSHA regulations that affect school science labs
Doug Holyfield - Hazardous Waste Consultant
Larry Cockrell - Fire and Electrical Safety
Steve Taynton and others - School Science Facilities
- Level II - Building a Sustainable Science Safety Program - July 27- Aug 1, 2008 Raleigh Sheraton Hotel.
Flinn has great free safety resources including MSDS
http://www.flinnsci.com/Sections/Safety/safety.asp
Science Safety Consulting Services by JaKel, Inc. http://showcase.netins.net/web/jakel/
Serving the science education community for over 25 years! Personalized safety consulting, workshops, and resources designed to meet your individual needs. The only resource in the country that is designed to include state specific requirements. Available for Pre-service through higher education teachers. We come to you to work at your facility and help teachers focus on their personal teaching/learning environments.
Science & Safety Consulting Services http://www.sciencesafetyconsulting.com
Science Safety Workshops for K-12 science teachers, school administrators, LEA administrators of varying length. Customized to your individual needs.
Also provide safety presentations for
Science Methods Courses for preservice and student teachers.
\\Customized Comprehensive Science Safety Laboratory Program for K-12 schools. All science labs are audited for OSHA Lab Standard Compliance.
A Needs Assessment Report is developed and the LEA developes a Prioritized Needs Science Safety Plan for correcting problems in school science laboratories.
Green Chemistry Institute - http://www.greenchemistryinstitute.org
Green chemistry products and processes reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
EPA Guide: Little Known But Allowable Ways to Deal with Hazardous Waste - http://www.epa.gov/sbo/pdfs/hazwaste_500.pdf
Chemical Safety for School Administrators
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/pubs/chemmgmt/resourceguide.pdf
\\Teaching Science: Lab Safety, Norman Heer, (suggested by [KMG] Scout Report), Before entering the world of pipettes and Geiger counters, budding scientists will need to know about lab safety. Science educators will benefit from this laboratory safety site, developed by Professor Norman Herr, who teaches at California State University, Northridge. On his site, Professor Herr provides topically organized links that fall into the areas of safety standards, chemical hazards, chemical storage, and five other relevant topics. Within each section, visitors will find links to state safety standards, sample laboratory safety contracts, and fact sheets on chemical hazards. One potentially delightful classroom activity is the laboratory safety “scavenger hunt”. Through this activity, students will learn about storage requirements, chemical risks, and other potential delicate matters.”
Total Science Safety System CD - State Specific
The CD that is in more schools than any other!! Available in fifteen state-specifc and in a national version. This CD includes the original chemical inventory database, innovative chemical labeling system and the most comprehensive safety information available today. The chemical inventory system contains only those chemicals found in K-12 textbooks and has been reviewed by Clean Harbors for chemicals that should be eliminated from your inventories. Available in a National (general) or state specific (fifteen states). For more information contact JaKel, Inc. at http://showcase.netins.net/web/jakel/
Chemical Management System CD-Second Edition
This CD is revolutionary in that the Chemical Inventory Spreadsheet contains over 2400 chemicals. It tells anyone in a school system
if a chemical is for elementary, middle or secondary school use or if the chemical requires "Justification: or is Banned."
Hopefully, this CD can be used by school personnel to prevent the reordering of hazardous chemicals that require private waste companies to dispose of them.
The recommended maximum quantity to be ordered is also listed. NFPA ratings, Contact rating, Fisher Storage System, Flinn Storage System , J.T. Baker Storage System and Shelf Life are also listed. Waste disposal recommendations are suggested and MSDS website reference is also listed. EPA and DOT hazardous waste codes are also included for chemicals.
The chemicals can also be searched by their common names(synonyms)as well as their IUPAC chemical names.
The CD is ordered by the LEA. A site license is needed for each middle and secondary school, elementary schools may use this free if the LEA adopts this CD. See http://www.sciencesafetyconsulting.com for an order form.
Chemical Subsitutions
A table of chemical subsitutions for use in the classroom. From Linda Stroud at www.sciencesafetyconsulting.com (large PDF file)
Lab Safety Activities
A collection of Lab Safety activities for elementary, middle and high school levels. From Linda Stroud at www.sciencesafetyconsulting.com (large pdf file)
Additional Resources
Additional safety resources including web sites, organizations and materials. From Linda Stroud at www.sciencesafetyconsulting.com (large pdf file)
Green Chemicals Purchasing System
The Green Chemical Alternatives Purchasing Wizard is a web-based tool. The wizard is a guided process that allows the user to search from a select list of solvents commonly used in the laboratory, and the associated process. The Wizard identifies less hazardous and more environmentally benign chemicals or processes that may be substituted, and provides journal references as well as URLs to information that is available online. Users may print article information or have email sent with the URL for the article reference. Anyone can use. MAC of PC friendly. Can locate chemical by name or process.
http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/laboratory/safety/safety.html
Teaching Science: Lab Safety, Norman Heer, (suggested by [KMG] Scout Report), Before entering the world of pipettes and Geiger counters, budding scientists will need to know about lab safety. Science educators will benefit from this laboratory safety site, developed by Professor Norman Herr, who teaches at California State University, Northridge. On his site, Professor Herr provides topically organized links that fall into the areas of safety standards, chemical hazards, chemical storage, and five other relevant topics. Within each section, visitors will find links to state safety standards, sample laboratory safety contracts, and fact sheets on chemical hazards. One potentially delightful classroom activity is the laboratory safety “scavenger hunt”. Through this activity, students will learn about storage requirements, chemical risks, and other potential delicate matters.
