Australia's Science Forum

HI , I have just last week been organizing a training course with glen sawle for new untrained labbys. yes this is what he is tell lab assistant at the training course.I asked him where is the departmental directive for the new changes he said there was not one. 1 I rang OHS South west region Diane ...

HI
saturated sol is when now more of the solid will disolve into the liquid. I just add solid untill it will not desolve any more.

HI, CSIS states you can not sudculture from wild culture and that you can only grow a Risk group 1. THey recommend a pure culture one that is of risk group one. The pepercorn grows Bacillis Subtilis a group 1 this has been Identified by the institute of clinical pathology and medical research westme...

Hi.
When I work at my last school And we were the trial for Chemical saftey Package work cover came out and that was there requiremt for MSDS. AS a whole school if you have Hazardous chemical say in art ,tas ,science then MSDS sheet need to be in that area. But in a hard copy .

Hi MSD have to be in hard copy for Hazdardous chemicals only up dated every 5 years . You need to have them in staffrooms and prep room and a copy at the front office. This is because workcover said that we can not asume all staff know how to use a computer kathy

Hi I have had meeting with The head of OHS dept of ed and curiculium service You do not have to write RA if the teachers are following the Csis Package. It is not up to labbys to do this it is up to the teacher conducting the class to provide RA if they are using something different to the CSIS. thi...

HI You can use Fresh pineapple Juice 3 testubes per group 100mls of 10% gelatin ( 3teaspoon of gelatin in 20mls of cold water add 80 mls of hot water them mix) Pour equal amount of gelatin in testubes testube 1 add2mls of pinapple juice testube 2 add2mls of pineapple juice then boil Testube 3 add 2m...

Hi Guys, I am micro trained. The dept of education state no growing of unknown Microbes. you can do everything you need to do for the sylabous using a peppercorn solution wich growes a safe bacteria to you, students and teachers. the plate can be desposed of in bleach or in home brand disinfectent t...

Hi
we use dried yeast in distilled water and a little bit of gulcose and put it in incubator on low for 20 minutes before class.
We use congo red as the stain.

HI
we had the 50 thousand upgrade wich only replaced the desk and sinks and gaveus water and gass. this happened in april aqnd my sinks have rusted and the white ceramice tops are easy to crack beware they are not teenage proof.

HI,
I have been on the referance group in south western region group if you need a hand on what to do just contact me I will help.

HI, My school uses salt, sugar, copper sulfate but they use fertilizer that has a high content of urea mix it in hot water and add colour to it with food dye then in a plastic dish the children have cut out of carboard tree sticky tape it down and add the solution they have made. You leve this for a...

HI,
My heavy text books are stored in creates at bench level children carry them to class and return to prep room. But I would like to store them in wheely creates but that cost money.

Hi, You can use 20gm of pepercorn in 100ml of water put in the incubator batilius subtillis is the bacteria that grows it is safe for you and children to use and can be obtained from the supermarket. this bacteria growes on N/A agar. If you use filter paper and a hole punch you can make disks soak t...

HI, we use a special divice that you can by from Q-stores or serrata .you heat the middle with a candle and place the wax in the indent at the endof the differerent metals it is great.

Hi, Don't get me started on the PSA I have sent letters and many report from survey form corses I have run.the latest reply was how the PSA fort to suply money for the reference groups in each region to train lab assistants. they have produced a dvd package along with the dept of edu of wich your sc...

HI,
n worked at to schools the first school used the focus books second school uses core scienc1-4 and Hienmens 1-4

HI,
I have never heard of those types of circuts but would ask my physics teacher.

Hi,
I to have just placed three heaped teaspoons full of starch and added hot water stir well and use . It works well every time