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A Lab Safety "Scavenger Hunt"
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An active "scavenger hunt" can effectively augment the obligatory lecture on lab safety that students rarely heed or remember when it counts. Each team of students is given a diagram of the room with a list of equipment to find. Winners are rewarded for accurately and completely labeled diagrams.
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High School / Introductory ChemistryKeywords (Domain):
Laboratory InstructionKeywords (Feature):
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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