Science Safety

To become great scientists, one of the first things to learn is how to use tools the right way.  I posed a question to the students.  How do scientists use tools? We will be investigating this question over the next few weeks.  The first thing we had to do was go over what it means to be safe.

We discussed safety and then talked about a safety contract.  By signing the contract, everyone must agree to the terms.  In order to participate in the science investigations, each student had to understand what was expected of them.  

From there we browsed through pictures of tools used by scientists and some tools that would be brought into the classroom later on.  The children talked about some as they cut pictures out and organized them in their science notebooks.

Next week I will bring in the first of the tools and we will get to work!