Australia's Science Forum

If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to have a peek at this famous booklet.....
david.peterson790@schools.sa.edu.au

I always use ferrous ammonium sulphate - this doesn't oxidise in solution to the brown ferric species. Stores longer and doesn't need to be made up immediately before use.

I'm down to my last unit (there are 10 in total). I really enjoyed the course, but found there is a lot of overlap between WHS units. I was specifically wondering if anyone had do the unit I'm on now as it is driving me nuts..... BSBSUS301A - Implement and Monitor Sustainable Work Practices. Definit...

Has any one out there recently done (or currently doing) Cert IV in WHS?

I'm SSO3. I would expect you to be an SSO2. How many students at your school? Are you fulltime (37.5hpw)?

Thanks for the input, Tuesday. 6-8 pracs a days on an easy day? Our teachers have slacked off over this year and I don't normally see more than 5 or 6 pracs a week (much to the disgust of the Science Co-ordinator who is trying to push for more practical work)! Not that I mind, as for the last 2 term...

I know most of you guys are in holiday-land already, but to follow up on my first question, I was wondering how many labs / storage-prep areas you have, how many students at your school and how many do science? We have 950 students on site (yrs 8-12 only), about 700 doing science (600 juniors and 10...

In SA...my salary equates to $34.90 per hour for a 75 hour fortnight. I work 48 weeks per annum with 4 weeks paid leave.

Hi All We are in the position of relocating our science department to a new purpose-built facility on our current site and wonder what people suggest as non-negotiable requirements (or even dream items) for a new facility. At the moment it's all about wish lists - so I'd be interested in people's re...

She showed me on a uk website of science supplies for education...looks like skewer length bits of wood to me.....comes in a pack of about 1000. Gave her pop sticks today and told her to get used to what we do in Australia. I just know she's going to send off to the UK for a bundle of sticks, becaus...

I've been here 15 years using both paddle pop stick and skewers but we have a new Science co-ordinator who came in from Ireland, and she thinks these 'simple' devices are not suitable.

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What do people use to test gases - hydrogen / oxygen etc? Do use use proper taper / wood splints or do you use popsticks or skewers?

Does anyone know where I can purchase proper wood splints to use as tapers?

We did something similar last year using a dehydrator that we borrowed from our Home Economics people.

Vernier for us as well.....

For 6 years I did 27.5 hours science and 10hrs home ec (shpping etc). This was despite I have B.App.Sc and worked in industry laboratories/processing.
The last 4 years been back in Science permanently - can't see that changing again - although 50% of what I do now is WHS (whole site, not just labs)

Please keep it coming folks, I see we are a busy lot, spreedsheet, etc, orders, etc. THank you so much. Some one today, said I was the ONLY one in AUstralia who did this. Definitely not the only one! If I didn't do it - we'd have nothing, as our Co-ordinator leaves it all to me to research, locate,...

mazcheck wrote:I help spend our science budget but don't have an input into the forming of it. The HOD keeps tabs and tells me when we are starting to run out.

I'm the exact opposite...I keep track and tell our Co-ordinator when we are starting to run out!

Used to use Lycopodium powder (expensive), plain flour works ok.

I drive the school ute - my wife has our car so I don't even have a vehicle at work to use anyway.

I found this useful document though which I thought was very interesting. http://www.ltav.org.au/labcon2003_OHS_Lab_Design_2002.pdf I definitely found this interesting, especially the section on Classroom Configurations (pp26-30). I have 6 labs, 5 of which are arranged as on p 28 and 1 arranged ass...