Lab Safety Rules and Lab Safety Activities for Special Education Back To School

This unit on Lab Safety Rules contains 5 days of material specifically designed for students with special learning needs, especially autism.

This unit addresses lab safety rules using a PowerPoint to address safe and unsafe actions in a lab, including what to wear and how to act.

Students have many opportunities to engage in repeated information on what is and is not safe in a laboratory.

In addition, many of the activities and assessments include more than one version, suggestions for differentiation, and options for presentation.

*****This unit has digital versions of the printable activities. There are 18 google slides and a movie version of the book.

See the preview for a more detailed look at the contents.

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Lab Safety Rules Unit Includes:

⭐ This unit comes in 2 complete files. One is in color and one is in black and white.

In the zipped folder you will find:

• 5 days of lesson plans
• Lab safety activities  in color
• Lab safety activities in black and white
• Voice-recorded PowerPoint show
• Lab Safety book (PowerPoint) to use with activities
• Links and directions to digital activities

Lab Safety Activities

• Vocabulary board
• Safety rules to post at students’ workstations
  • With and without pictures
  • 2 sizes

• Group activities
  • 20 Scenario Cards
  • Bingo cards

• Circle map (includes digital version)
• Sorting activity (includes digital version)
• Id safe and unsafe situations (includes digital version)
• Lab Safety Pledge (includes digital version)
• Assessments (3 versions) (includes digital version)

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Much of what I have learned about curriculum development is incorporated in these units. For example, do not be afraid of repetition. It is critical that students with significant disabilities get to experience material over several days to be able to fully assimilate what is being taught. Also, adding visual supports to your printables and class activities helps students be able to pay more attention to the content you are presenting rather than the mechanics of what is expected. Finally, ask questions. Good questions!! Regardless of the material, if we can ask students good questions it will push them to think more deeply than before.