07/15/2015
JST teaches young campers about every day chemical safety
Members of the Joint Safety Team recently attended the Chisago County
Safety Camp, which is an all-day event for children who have completed
3rd grade through 5th grade. The campers learned about safety in a
variety of different situations including bike, fire, electrical, and
chemical safety.
The Joint Safety Team taught the children chemical safety related to their every day lives, including:
- The importance of different eye protection (this demonstration involved the use of balloons
wearing different types of eye protection, and the children sprayed
colored water to see how effective the different types of eye protection
were).
- The importance of
proper protection against the cold (this demonstration involved the use
of liquid nitrogen to freeze various items to show how important it is
to wear proper clothes in the winter).
- Making mini-CO2 fire
extinguisher (for this demonstration, the young people mixed baking soda
and vinegar in a small plastic bottle, and using the gas created from
the reaction, they extinguished a candle).
- The importance of
reading labels for medication (Coca-Cola and different amounts of Mentos
were used in this demonstration to show that not everything reacts well
when mixed together).
