Lesson 1: Common Lab Equipment

Key Question and Objectives

🗝 Key Question 🗝

What tools and equipment do chemists use?

By the end of the lesson you will be able to…

• recognize common chemistry tools and equipment that you will be using in the course

• find all the safety equipment in the laboratory and understand its use

• understand the rules of safety in the chemistry laboratory

Instructions

Review all of the information in the slide deck to help you work through the
questions in the Google Forms Scavenger Hunts for this Lesson.

Information has been adapted from Living by Chemistry, Angelica M. Stacey
Images made using Chemix.org

Put together by Gordon Burnett (burnettg@worcesterschools.net)
Summer of 2020

Click the symbol on some of the slides to hear how to pronounce
that piece of equipment.

What do we need to run an experiment?

Experiments require different types of equipment; such as scales, ovens,
beakers, etc.
Different pieces of equipment have varying qualities such as accuracy and
precision.
Accuracy: How close the data is to an accepted value.
Precision: How close the data values are to one another.

RED

Blue

yellow

RED

Blue

Gray

Green

RED

Pink

Household
name: salt

Scoopula

Spatula

Household
name:
Baking
Soda

Correct Reading

Volume of liquid before and after an

experiment

Initial Reading

Final Reading

Commonly Used in class for small
amounts of liquid, but inaccurate

Not Commonly Used in
class, but More accurate

Accuracy Increases

Most common

Filter Paper and Funnel in Use

Stirring rod with a rubber policeman

Stirring rod in use

​You can see the reaction demonstrated here on the next slide.

Clay Triangle in Use

°F = (1.8 x °C) + 32
°C = (°F-32) x 0.56
K = °C + 273.15

Fahrenheit = °F

Celsius = °C
Kelvin = K

Set this to 6 for
Spinning

The volume here is
about 36.5 mL.

Each major
graduation is worth
10 mL

Each minor
graduation is worth
1 mL

Volume of liquid needed for an

experiment

Each minor
graduation is worth
1 mL

Test to determine if NaOH (aq)
is an acid or a base

To tubing

Air
Control

Gas
Control

We’ll be using Matches or
Safety Lighters

How To light a Bunsen Burner with a match

Start
Here

How To light a Bunsen Burner with a Lighter

Start
Here