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Safer Science: Student Tests for Safer Labs
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of safety tests to help students demonstrate their proficiency in lab safety....
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Welcome to the NSTA Safety Blog
As NSTA’s chief science safety compliance adviser, I look forward to sharing the latest safety compliance information, while helping teachers solve safety-related problems and issues in the classroom, lab, and maker space. I’m also looking forwar...
By Kenneth Roy
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Safer Science: Preventing Alcohol-Based Laboratory Fires
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses why teachers performing lab demonstrations involving flammables should closely follow current legal standards and better professional...
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Safer Science: Safer Use of Toxic Chemicals
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of moderately or highly toxic chemicals....
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Safer Science: Safety in Science Instruction
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses NSTA's position paper "Safety and School Science Instruction." It encourages K–12 school leaders and teachers to promote and support...
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Safety First: Safety Picks Up “STEAM”
This column shares safety information for your classroom. At the elementary level, teachers have inherently integrated STEAM, compared to their secondary-level counterparts. However, with this approach comes an even greater need for attention to safe...
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Safer Science: Safer Reproductive Health in Science Labs
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses reproductive hazards in the science classroom....
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Safety First: Preventing Allergic Reactions
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the importance of being aware of (and prepared for) the different types of allergy symptoms....