🎯 WALT (We Are Learning To)

Identify and apply essential laboratory safety procedures and equipment usage

Success Criteria:

• I can identify safety equipment and their purposes
• I can recognise safety symbols and their meanings
• I can explain proper laboratory behaviour and emergency procedures

📋 Instructions

Choose the best answer for each question by filling in the circle. Read each question carefully before answering.

🧪 Part A: Safety Equipment (Questions 1-4)

1. What is the primary purpose of safety goggles in the laboratory?

To look professional

To protect eyes from chemicals and glass

To help you see better

To keep hair out of your face

2. When should you use the emergency shower in a science lab?

When you feel hot

If large amounts of chemicals spill on your body or clothes

To clean equipment

At the end of every practical

3. What should you do if you cut yourself with broken glass?

Continue working and ignore it

Immediately inform the teacher and apply first aid

Put the glass in the regular rubbish bin

Wash it with chemicals

4. Fire blankets are used to:

Keep equipment warm

Smother small fires or wrap around a person whose clothes are on fire

Clean up spills

Cover experiments

⚠️ Part B: Safety Symbols & Behaviour (Questions 5-8)

5. A chemical bottle with a skull and crossbones symbol means:

The chemical is old

The chemical is toxic/poisonous

The chemical is expensive

The chemical is radioactive

6. Which behaviour is NOT appropriate in a science laboratory?

Wearing closed-toe shoes

Eating your lunch during practical work

Tying back long hair

Listening to teacher instructions

7. Before starting any experiment, you should:

Start immediately to save time

Read all instructions and understand the safety requirements

Ask your friend what to do

Use any equipment you can find

8. When heating substances with a Bunsen burner, you should:

Leave it unattended

Always supervise it and use appropriate equipment like tongs

Touch the flame to test temperature

Place it near flammable materials

🚨 Part C: Emergency Procedures (Questions 9-12)

9. If you spill acid on the bench, you should:

Wipe it up with paper towel immediately

Inform the teacher and follow their instructions for safe cleanup

Pour water on it straight away

Leave it for someone else to clean

10. The correct way to smell a chemical is to:

Put your nose directly over the container

Waft the vapour towards your nose with your hand

Take a deep breath directly from the bottle

Never smell chemicals in the laboratory

11. If the fire alarm sounds during a practical lesson, you should:

Finish your experiment first

Turn off gas taps and electrical equipment if safe to do so, then evacuate

Hide under the desk

Continue working as it's probably just a drill

12. Broken glass should be:

Picked up with your hands

Swept up with a brush and pan, then placed in a special sharps container

Left on the floor

Put in the regular rubbish bin

🌟 Extension Activity

13. Explain in your own words why laboratory safety rules are important:

📚 Differentiation Support

For additional support: Review the safety symbols poster in your classroom and discuss any questions with your teacher.

Dyslexia-friendly option: Ask your teacher about accessing this quiz in larger font or alternative format.

Year 9 Lab Safety Quiz

Year 9 Lab Safety Quiz

🎯 WALT (We Are Learning To)

Success Criteria:

📋 Instructions

🧪 Part A: Safety Equipment (Questions 1-4)

⚠️ Part B: Safety Symbols & Behaviour (Questions 5-8)

🚨 Part C: Emergency Procedures (Questions 9-12)

🌟 Extension Activity

📚 Differentiation Support

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