A Science lab is a workplace for the conduct of scientific research. It helps students to remember the concepts better. It helps to transfer the experience to other learning situations. It is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments and measurement may be performed.
A science lab consists of Burettes, tongs, tweezers, forceps, test tubes, conical flasks, laboratory balance, specimens, slides, microscopes, many chemicals useful for experiments.
LABORATORY DISCIPLINE
- No pupil should have a place assigned to enter the laboratory in the absence of teacher. • Every student should have a place assigned to him where he will perform his experiment. • Reagent bottle should be return to the shelf immediately after the use. • Waste filter paper burned up matchsticks etc. should not be thrown up into sinks.
- Waste box should be kept in the lab • Drawing figures on the furniture should never be permitted. • All unnecessary talks should be avoid and playing with the apparatus should be prohibited. • The work should be finished 5 minutes before the end of period, the apparatus should be disconnected washed, of necessary and replaced in their proper place.
- Any breakage of apparatus should be noted down in the breakage register. • A scientific atmosphere should be kept up. • Those who finish their work should go to the writing table finish their record work. • The work done with discipline and care will be more effective and beneficial to students.
