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Lab Safety & Equipment

📋 What it is

Safety rules and the right equipment protect you so experiments stay useful, not harmful.

🗣️ Coach says

Real science means respecting safety. Goggles guard your eyes, you never taste unknown substances, you read directions first, and you clean up spills. Safety isn’t the boring part — it’s what lets you keep experimenting. Careful scientists get to do MORE experiments.

🧠 Memory hook

Goggles on, read first, never taste unknowns, clean up. Safety keeps science going.

😂 Giggle

What did the control group say to the experimental group?
"Don't change — I'll be the comparison!"

😲 Whoa!

Lab goggles can stop a splash travelling faster than you can blink — a single second of protection prevents most eye injuries.

✅ Quick check: Why should you never taste an unknown substance in an experiment?

Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.

🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)

Before any home experiment, run a 10-second safety check: goggles? directions read? cleanup ready?

⭐ Do the round to earn your star →

🤸 Brain break: Gear-up: mime putting on goggles and gloves — “safe and ready.”