1. Lab Equipment Scavenger Hunt

2. In your spiral, go to your Table of Contents page
In your spiral, go to your Table of Contents page. Under “Safety Notes” write “Lab Equipment”

3. On the right, write down the page number YOU started the lab equipment notes on. It may be different from your neighbor.

4. Now, go to your page titled “Lab Equipment” and get ready to take notes.

5. Cut out the three strips of lab equipment and paste onto your paper.

6. For each item, write down the name, it’s function and if there is a task on the card, the answer.

7. safety goggles
To protect the eyes from chemicals, fumes and objects.

8. lab apron
To protect the body and clothing from chemicals.

9. plastic gloves
To protect the hands from chemicals and pathogens (things that make you sick).

10. triple beam balance
To mass objects. Grams is the standard unit for science.
Task: What is the mass of the object?

11. microscope
To view very small object or to look at parts of an object at a cellular level.
Task: Try to focus on and see the slide.

12. Microscope Parts Eyepiece (Ocular Lens) Body Tube Revolving Nosepiece
Arm
Objective Lens
Stage
Stage Clips
Coarse Adjustment Knob
This may, or may not, be the same version of the microscope used in class. Students will be identifying the parts and functions of the parts on the microscopes at their desks as we go along.
Diaphragm
Fine Adjustment Knob
Light Source
Base

13. microscope slides
Used with the microscope to fix a specimen or object.

14. slide cover slips
Used with the microscope slide to prevent the object or specimen from falling off of the slide.

15. hot plate
Used to heat chemicals, glassware etc.

16. ceramic plate
Used with the hot plate. Place anything that needs to be heated on the tile.

17. tongs
Used to pick up and carry hot objects or containers with corrosive chemicals.

18. test tube
Used to hold substances for viewing, mixing or testing.

19. test tube clamp
Used to hold test tubes over a burner flame or to hold hot tubes.

20. test tube rack
Used to hold test tubes.

21. erlenmeyer flasks Used to measure, hold and/or mix chemicals
Task: how many milliliters of liquid are in the flask?

22. graduated cylinder Used to measure the volume of liquids
Task: how many milliliters of liquid are in the graduated cylinder?

23. beaker Used to measure, hold and/or mix chemicals.
Task: how many milliliters of sand are in the beaker?

24. meter stick
Used to measure length. Always use metric numbers for science (meters, centimeters, millimeters)
Task: measure the object.

25. thermometer
Used to measure the temperature of substances. For science, use the Celsius side.
Task: What temperature is the liquid in the graduated cylinder?

26. spring scale
Used to measure force. Some can also be used to mass objects.
Task: What force is required to hold up the block?

27. petri dish
Used to hold biological substances or to grow bacteria, fungi, mold etc.

28. pipette (eye dropper)
Used to transfer liquids for mixing, viewing, or testing
Task: Practice pulling liquid into the pipette.