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I have changed most of ours over to the plastic squirt type of bottle. Less damage to the soloutions I have found. Still use amber glass bottles for some solutions. To stop the rubber from going hard on the lid I smear a very small amount of potroleum Jelly on the plastic - seems to work. Some how t...

Have a good break everyone - and a well deserved one at that.

Hi there, yep if you have time I would also love a copy

kim.e.lawlor@education.nsw.gov.au

thanks heaps

Hi Wendy - we offer this course here externally and the kids do it via Camden Haven so You may like to give them a call and talk with them they are really easy going group of teachers and I think of the top of my head ask for Lisa Burton she is who we speak with. Hope this is of some help. KIM Quiri...

If something is returned to the preproom it is placed in the broken tray and each sports day I see what I can repair and I fix it and designate the other items to the correct staff member for repairs. At the end of each term I go through the storerooms and check anything that looks broken and get it...

We have a microwave in our prep room and we use it for a few things -
such as Agar plates and melting chocolate for chocolate fossils. I would recomend one for any Science department. Also they are good for a hot chocolate on a cold morning .

We use 3% for most of these but 15% for a few of the experiments. Your teacher should know the % needed for the experiment.

We only ever use between .5M and 2 M acid for this. I never let the concentrate go out for student pracs. The teachers may use them for demonstration but that is all to many hazards with giving students concentrates we avoid this whenever possible.

We give ours out to the class still half frozen this way they are still a bit firm and less mess.

Well some of us are as they say "bucket Chemistry" lovers yep I just add a few crystals into some Ethonal and add more if it is not very dark. Seems to work and no one around here has complained yet. And it shows up the presence of starch - so I suppose that is the main thing.

Our Locker Numbers are issued through the front office - a fee is paid so therefore it has to go through Admin. Students supply there own keys if they wish to lock the lockers - But it is only year 12 who have lockers and they are in there Study room so not many of them choose to lock them. Our GA (...

Do not come in during any of the school holidays :coffee: . Our head teacher does the fish and plants during the holidays. As I have a fmaily and a life \:D/ I dont seem to miss work during these times. I feel sorry for those that have to go to work during the holidays although you would get alot do...

What chemical are you after

WE do this experiment quiet often - put some bubble mixture in a butter container attach a Thistle funnel to some rubber tubing and attach to gas outlet. Put thistle funnel in bubble mixture - take out - turn on gas - then with a taper candle on a meter long ruler we then ignite the bubble. the kids...

I had mine set in the small beakers to what I did then was to turn them upside down and let hot water run slowly over the base and presto the crystals popped out . Yes I will be using something else for them to put the liquid in next time. This is how we learn - by our mistakes .

We have just made our up in the last month - in them I have *Dust pan and Brush *Safety Glasses 8-) *Disposable good gloves not just the everyday ones *Disposable face mask *Kitty Litter *Vomit kit 8O *Disposable overalls :idea: *Large strong disposable rubbish bag All this is kept in a large plasti...

Find out when your local tip has a chemical clean up and you may find that they will take a certain amount free of charge. The only problem most of these clean up days are Saturday or Sunday so you may need to do a bit of overtime - but this is a free service normally so it is worth it - and it help...

I have mine in a empty napisan container that way it is solid and the slinky does not get bent or tangled also the container has a lid.

We use broken crucibles here also, just have a box that I put the broken ones in and have a smashing time when get a few there.