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ESSENTIAL ITEMS FOR THE SCIENCE CLASS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

All Science Classrooms

Safety goggles with sterilization device
Protective clothing (e.g., rubber aprons)
Fire extinguisher (ABC)
Fire blanket
First-aid kit with latex gloves
Emergency dump shower
Eye wash
Safety charts
Teacher’s desk with computer (CD, DVD, 
laser disk player), printer linked to overhead 
TV, software and Internet connection
Overhead projector
Projection screen
Audiovisual equipment
Videotape library
Flex camera
Teacher’s demonstration desk/work table with water, electric and gas supply
Teacher/Lab offices
Chalkboard
Bulletin Board
Display area for student work
File cabinet
Bookshelves
Student computers (CD, DVD, laser disk player) with Internet connection and software
Research area computers
Probes/sensors with computer or CBL
Classroom space with student desks or tables
Student work stations with gas, sink, water and electricity
Electrical supply (multiple outlets for work stations and counters)
Heat source (multiple gas and/or electric)
Storage/preparation room
Perimeter work area/cabinets with counter top
Chemical and non-chemical storage
Cabinets with storage and display capabilities
Lab carts
Drying racks
Tray storage
Microscopes
Balances
Calculators
Measuring devices (thermometers, balances, glassware (plastic), meter stick)

Living Environment

Refrigerator
Chemical storage
Water supply
Microscopes (light, compound, dissecting, stereo)
Microvideo
Live animal environment
Specimen storage
Autoclave
Centrifuge
Moveable plant case with growlight
Aquarium
Skeletons (various vertebrates)
Balances (triple beam, electric)
Stopwatches
Thermometers
Sphygmomanometer
Glassware (e.g., beakers, flasks, test tubes, eyedroppers, graduated cylinders, slides, coverslips, etc.)
Growing media (e.g., soil, hydroponics, etc.)
Realia (specimen collections)
Models (flower, organs, etc)
Wall charts (human systems, plants, etc.)
Dialysis tubing
Fossil specimens
Living specimens (e.g., protists, hydra, euglena, elodea, etc.)
Prepared slides
Dissection trays, scalpels, etc.
Stains (e.g., methylene blue, iodine)
Indicators (e.g., litmus, pH, Benedicts’s, Lugol’s, Biruet’s, etc.)

Chemistry

Chemically resistant work stations
Heat and acid resistant gloves
Stationery area for balances (triple beam and electronic)
Fume hood with gas and water supply
Refrigerator
Dishwasher for glassware
Drying oven
Distilled water or distillation apparatus
Chemical Storage (acids, flammables, etc.)
Micro/macro glassware or appropriate plastic (beakers, flasks, test tubes, eyedroppers, wellplates, pipettes, burettes, stirring rods, bottles, watchglasses, graduated cylinders, etc.)
Thermometers
Atmospheric pressure gauge
Clamp stands, clamps, tongs
Rubber tubing and stoppers
Indicators (e.g., pH, litmus, phenolphthalein, thymol blue, bromcresol green, methyl orange, bromthymol blue)
Wall chart of the Periodic Table
Molecular model kits
Magnetic stirrer with hotplate
Realia (e.g., collection of element and compound specimens)

Physics

Darkroom
Strobe lights
Spectrometer
Laser
Gas emission tubes
Diffraction gratings
Electroscope with pith balls, ebonite and vinyl rods
Ripple tank
DC power source
Circuit boards with rheostats, switches, batteries, light bulbs, resistors
Voltmeters
Ammeters
Camera/video equipment
CAD programs
Magnets
Generator (van de Graff)
Motors
Dynamic carts
Spark timers/photogates
Springs
Hooked masses
Tuning forks
Mirrors and lenses
Stopwatches
Directional compasses
Prisms
Thermometers
Wallcharts (e.g., electromagnetic spectrum, energy levels, emission spectra, nuclides, quarks)

Earth Science

Balance (triple-beam, electronic)
Weather instruments (e.g., recording barometer, thermometers, sling psychrometers, hydrometers, anemometers, wind vane, precipitation gauges)
Globes
Plastic hemispheres
Balances (triple beam, electric)
Wall maps
Topographic maps
Models (e.g., tectonic plate boundaries, sun/Earth/moon)
Stop watches (digital)
Graduated cylinders
Three-foot plastic columns
Spectroscopes
Stream tables
Protractors
Hand lens
Streak plates
Compass
Realia (e.g., rocks and minerals, fossils)

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http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/scitems.html  Revised: August 22, 2006