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No matter what age group you are teaching, it is always important to express safety rules and drills within the classroom. You should have set time built into your lessons to go over safety procedures especially when the students are being introduced to a new chemical or anything harmful. I recommend having a safety quiz to make sure your students understand the extremities of their actions during a lab. In case you are worried students might forget the rules further down the line in the year, you can make a poster or order one with all of the rules on the poster. Students will be able to go back and review the rules on their own without causing any safety hazards.

Hi Emma, As aspiring educators, it is our responsibility to inform and educate students about the significance of lab safety in science classes, where hazardous chemical experiments may be handled. I agree that it might be a good idea to incorporate an interactive activity in your classroom that emphasizes the significance of safety when working in the lab to make safety look like fun.

Hi Emma! As an incoming educator, I plan to stay responsible and effective in educating the students on the safety etiquette we will display in our laboratory.  As you mentioned, assigning a lab safety quiz/exam is an effective way for the students to study and learn the rules we will be applying in our laboratory. Making sure that each student is aware of the safety rules set out in the lab is staying responsible and confiding trust in the students while performing in the lab. 

What are the three most important safety rules to make sure we have incorporated in our classroom? Do you know of any different ways we can make sure our students are aware of these rules, are understanding of these rules, and are making sure to follow them?