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fly spray - really wow would have thought that would actaully damage the white boards - will keep it mind for the future

i am impressed with the range and differences of them all

thanks for sharing those who have so far.
always interesting to see how others work - self checking as such i think is a good tool. new ideas and new ways of looking at things - that is why this forum is so wonderful and important i belive

both schools did - when i was in QLD the school paid for it but that year the labbie pd that QUEST organised was at the conasta event instead of a seperate event again. In WA i bluffed my way in as it does not come to town all that often here - lol. In both cases the schools paid for it when it was ...

i really wish i could go tho this - i have only attended a few of these but have enjoyed every one of them.

it comes down to costs - school is lacking funds :(

MANY THANKS for that advice
will do

lol i found this site yesturday trying to find out how to make bromothymol blue -lol
it is a great site with some interesting hints

I got jack of the "ongoing" , "finsihed" signs as the teachers never bothered so i have one side of my prep room is for prac pick up and the other side for ihave finished with - if a prac sits on the pick up side for longer than 2 weeks it goes all the same (with consultation) WE...

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Anyone out there done repairs on thier aquariums? i have a large aquarium that has a smashed base glass pane. To get it repaired is going to cost more than a replacement - but it is not in the budget to replace but buying a pane of glass to repair ourselves is. :? so we will be getting a pane of gla...

Many thanks Kiah for sharing
great reference materials

This is a collection of free lab safety signs relating to mandatory or required action. Examples include mandatory use of protective eyewear, lab coats, ... http://chemistry.about.com/od/safetysignsandsymbols/ig/Mandatory-Action-Safety-Signs/ Safety Signs This is a collection of free safety signs th...

Had this sent through to me thought i would share it with you all. Free download saftey signage Prohibition Signs and Symbols This is a collection of free prohibition signs and symbols that you can save to your hard drive and print to use as prohibition signs. http://chemistry.about.com/od/safetysig...

Many thanks for sharing ladies both very intersting and nicely set out and i will use it as a guide.

The teachers here are not using pineapple (costly and messey??!!) they intend to use geletine (sets) and various amounts of pepsin until the geletine does not set.

once again many thanks

This year we have started using the QLD Sci Project book - a Heinemann book - " Biology a Contextual Approach" and in a few weeks doing the - investigating of factors affecting enzymes activity. We have not done most of the suggested reactions but the teachers have gone with the effect of ...

ohh Ocker i dont miss those days at all - i am spoilt here i have a handy man that does the S bends for me now - twice a year he comes around and takes them off and cleans them out for me - bless him. Only 1 day after this one - left heaps of stuff to do so i am busy and it goes quickly (at least th...

sharing is good Ian

heat makes it expand - ice makes it contract -lol sorry had a laugh on this one as i remeber my high school teacher telling us this over and over in one class as a few students had goten it wrong in a test ok most the class and he spent the next lesson saying it over and over and over glad you got y...

I too will be there
love catching up with everyone and meeting new labbies.
of course the doing part of it is good too

Hey Rosalie we are still getting them but i am lucky as our library is dealing with it all for us - they hunt stuff down for us so the binders are with them. We have the bugs which are wonderful. as far as the stickers are concerned yes we have bugs with no stickers as they dont match - we are consi...