Using Goggles and Gloves
TEKS Objective
The student is expected to use safety equipment, including safety goggles and gloves.
Essential Understanding
The student knows how to use a variety of tools and methods to conduct science inquiry.
Science Background
Safety Glasses and Goggles: All About Vision (website) - Safety goggles are important tools when conducting elementary science. Learn more about the standards that are required for these goggles.
Signature Lesson
Investigating Safety, Grade 5: Ohio Department of Education (PDF) - Students observe a demonstration about safety equipment, use different science equipment, including safety goggles and gloves, and create guidelines to reinforce safe practices in the science laboratory.
Students also create a safety rubric for use throughout the school year.
Investigating Safety, Grade 5
Ohio Department of Education, ims.ode.state.oh.us
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Safety in the Laboratory: Federal Way (WA) Public Schools (Word Document) - Students observe, discuss and record the uses and location of various safety equipment, including goggles and eye wash stations.
Safety in the Laboratory
Federal Way (WA) Public Schools, schools.fwps.org
Lab Safety Station Activity: Orange County Public Schools (pdf) - Students rotate through a series of stations, each with a lab safety question.
Lab Safety Station Activity
Orange County Public Schools, www.ocps.net
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Safety in the Lab Mini Posters: Federal Way (WA) Public Schools (PDF) - Student groups are assigned different safety rules, and then work collaboratively to produce a safety posters that summarize the intent and importance of those rules.
Safety in the Lab Mini Posters
Federal Way (WA) Public Schools, schools.fwps.org
Lab Safety Station Activity: Orange County Public Schools (pdf) - Students rotate through a series of stations, each with a lab safety question.
Assessment Ideas
Challenge students to write in their science notebooks different scenarios for which safety goggles would be needed in the science classroom. Answers might include using chemicals, working with sand and other small particles, dealing with projectiles like rockets, etc.
Literature Connections
Goggles! Keats, Ezra Jack (ISBN-13: 978-0140564402)
Big Book of Safety for Young Children. Barden, Cindy (ISBN-13: 978-1564179746)
Safe Not Sorry! Chemical Safety Activity Handbook. Gertz, Susan E. (ISBN-13: 978-1883822521)
Additional Resources
Texas Safety Standards: Charles A. Dana Center (website) - A guide to the laws, regulations and safety procedures for classroom, lab, and field investigations in Texas schools.
Texas Safety Standards
Charles A. Dana Center, www.utdanacenter.org
Science Facilities Standards: Charles A. Dana Center (website) - This manual, for teachers and administrators at Texas schools, describes required standards for facilities in which teaching lab and field investigations will be conducted.
Science Facilities Standards
Charles A. Dana Center, www.utdanacenter.org
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