NGSS Lesson Planning Template

Grade/ Grade Band:7-12th Topic: Lab Safety Lesson # _____ in a series of _____ lessons
Brief Lesson Description: This lesson would ideally last the first week of school. The students will review presentations of lab safety, review
the lab safety contract, review lab equipment and proper ways to use them, and make a lab safety poster.
Performance Expectation(s): Students will be able to identify potential hazards in the lab and identify lab equipment and the proper
ways to use them. Students will be able to demonstrate lab safety procedures and rules.
Specific Learning Outcomes: Students will learn about the lab equipment and the correct way to use them. They will also learn about lab
safety rules and procedures.
Narrative / Background Information
Prior Student Knowledge: Students may have had previous practice in lab. They may have had instruction in lab safety in previous
grades. Students

Science & Engineering Practices: Disciplinary Core Ideas: Crosscutting Concepts: na

Constructing Explanations and
Designing Solutions
Constructing explanations and designing
solutions in 9–12 builds on K–8
experiences and progresses to
explanations and designs that are
supported by multiple and independent
student-generated sources of evidence
consistent with scientific ideas, principles
and theories.
ETS1.C: Optimizing the Design Solution
• Criteria may need to be broken
down into simpler ones that can be
approached systematically, and
decisions about the priority of certain
criteria over others (trade-offs) may be
needed.

Possible Preconceptions/Misconceptions: Students might believe that they do not need gloves or goggles for certain situations such as
labs that handle cold temperatures or labs that do not require more than one chemical.

LESSON PLAN – 5-E Model

ENGAGE: Opening Activity – Access Prior Learning / Stimulate Interest / Generate Questions:
Students will receive cartoons of labs that are taking place. Students are to make a T chart on a separate sheet of paper and label it
“safe” and “unsafe”. Students will look at the cartoons as partners and find what is unsafe and safe in the cartoons. They will record this
on their T chart.

EXPLORE: Lesson Description – Materials Needed / Probing or Clarifying Questions:

I will give a lab safety presentation and students will take notes and ask questions. The presentation will consist of what to do and not to
do in a lab. How to handle situations where there is heat and what to do in case of an emergency. It will also include what they should
be wearing and the tools they might use.
I will give them a tour of the classroom and show the students where each piece of equipment is and where the emergency equipment
is. They will need to remember this in order to chart out the classroom in a later activity. I will show a video of a non-example of lab
safety and we will talk as a class what should have happened in the non-example.
Students will do a worksheet with partners that has a series of situations and students will answer what to do in these situations.
EXPLAIN: Concepts Explained and Vocabulary Defined:
Vocabulary will be explained and defined in the presentation. Students will be able to ask questions for clarification at this point.

Vocabulary: Vocabulary will consist of lab equipment such as, microscope, slide, pipette, beaker, graduated cylinder, gloves, goggles, eye
wash, sharps container, etc.

ELABORATE: Applications and Extensions: Students will complete a lab safety web diagram and create a poster about lab safety in a
classroom.
EVALUATE:

Formative Monitoring (Questioning / Discussion):

Discussions will take place as a whole class and in partners about the do’s and don’ts of lab safety.
Summative Assessment (Quiz / Project / Report): Students will create a lab safety poster and will be required to read and sign the lab
safety contract. (Parents will be required to sign as well)

Elaborate Further / Reflect: Enrichment: Before each lab throughout the year, as a class, we will go over lab safety rules that apply to
that lab and review the lab safety contract.

*Below are examples of worksheets and cartoons

References:
https://betterlesson.com/lesson/616040/ensuring-lab-safety