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Here is an email that was sent to us QLD labbies, its a great idea.

Just on this subject my very good friend lives in Samoa and they (the Samoans) are doing it really tough over there, maybe your local rotary/lions club can organise to get the stuff over there as well.

Good luck

Could you maybe pour some into a shallow tray and evaporate it off in the fume cupboard each weekend, long slow process I know but bit by bit and it is gone. I recently went to a chemical disposal PD day for all the local labbies in this area and they suggested disposal by the above method and also ...

The former labby here, who has now gone over to IT (computer genius), made up our own using an access program. All the pracs from the various text books and teachers heads are written into the program and when the teachers need to order a prac they simply look up the experiment name from a drop down...

Thanks Julie and kimmy they are very useful.

Junior science, yrs 8, 9 and 10.

Does anyone have any good ideas or powerpoint presentations they would like to share regarding the body systems and the organs including the digestive system, repiratory system, the eosphegus etc etc. We were thinking along the lines of maybe a picture of the body and matching up the parts with name...

I have dissed the blender and now give students a ziplock bag with either strawberries or bananas in them. They mush it up in the bag. No mess and it gets thrown in bin at the end. I will attempt attach my procedure :? I think that as long as the ethanol or metho is really really cold and you pour i...

Thanks Kiah thats brilliant. Dont you just love this site its great that people are willing to share the fruits of their hard work.

All I can do is try to get them to fill them out, most do, some do after I have nagged them and then 1 or 2 just dont :redcard: they keep promising them but they never get around to it. My HOD knows about it so I think it is upto him to jog their memories. Dont get me wrong they are a great bunch to...

Hey Ellice Make sure you spend some time in Townsville before heading further north. We have museums, reef HQ, Magnetic Is, the Strand, some great restuarants, the biggest army barracks in Oz (a black hawk just flew over as I'm typing this) :clap3: Maybe i could get a job in tourism surely that woul...

Hi Kel, I would strongly recommend going to Green Is, it has the most beautiful reef with heaps and heaps of marine life, last time we were there snorkeling we saw a green turtle,a reef shark, a maouri wrasse and the most beautiful fish :clap3: Green Is is unique because it is only a short boat ride...

We do the sodium prac as a demo here. It is not banned in QLD

Ocker I'm in awe of your organisational skills..... I think we need pictures of these so called storage bottles, you never know you may start something here

Hi Guys

Does anyone have any fun pracs to do concerning genetics. This is for a yr 9 class that is a little unruly so the prac needs to be fun and engaging.

Also are there any good biology pracs out there suitable for yr 8s.

Thanks in advance

Nicky

We are now called Scientific Operations Officer in QLD......try saying that 3 times fast.

Laboratory Manager would have been the better name by far.

Hi Trish No you cannot substitue gelatine for agar. Gelatine has a melting point at around room temperature. Trust me the plates end up a sloppy stinking mess. Go with agar every time. You can get it from Silform for $78.00 or crown scientific for $73.70. I guess thats why its so expensive because t...

We do what everyone else does concerning fire drills. We also have a lockdown drill every term. Sometimes during class sometimes during lunch. The kids are pretty well drilled about lockdown and they need to get to the nearest allocated room. I think its important to practise the lunch time drills a...

I may be interested I would like the details and we might be able to work something out.

Up here in FNQ I usually wait about 3 weeks. It certainly depends on the company. I ordered heaps of material first week back at school and I received the majority of it within 3 weeks the rest came in dribs and drabs I'm assuming they were on backorder. I have only just received the last lot of tha...

Hey Slarti Congratulations on your new position and welcome to the sunny state, winter in QLD is just beautiful especially in FNQ. When I found out we had to move to qld from NSW we had less then 2 weeks to pack up and move 2000km over christmas. Do you know how hard it is to organise removalists et...