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Equipment Flashcards

Secondary science introduces laboratory apparatus that students will not have previously encountered. The flashcards can be used in a variety of ways to help students familiarise themselves with the names of scientific equipment.

WHAT YOU GET

USING THE RESOURCE
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What you get

The Equipment Flashcards show the name, a coloured photograph and a two-dimensional line diagram for the main scientific equipment that you will find in a science laboratory. There are two pieces of equipment on each A4 page.

Using the resource

Print out a set of the Equipment Flashcards and laminate them.

  • The printed cards can make effective labels for equipment cupboards.
  • If cut up into the three sections (photograph, name and diagram) they can be used in a mix and match type activity with students.
  • Stick selected cards onto a white board to show which pieces of equipment students need for a practical.
  • When introducing new equipment hold up the card, pronounce the words and get the students to say the names. They can point to where the pieces of equipment are kept in the laboratory. Emphasise how the line diagrams have been drawn, showing this on the board and get the students to try this.

You can produce your own line diagrams of equipment in the DiagramMaker resource.

Resource files

The Equipment Flashcards have been divided into four separate files to download, since they are large due to the photographic detail included.

FLASHCARDS 1

FLASHCARDS 2
FLASHCARDS 3
FLASHCARDS 4