As an American I am used to calling these "labs," but the IB, like any education framework has their own lingo and "practicals" is the term they use for what I used to call "labs." Here is where I will post lab sheets and instructions. I will also post a list of lab skills that students should learn and employ.
Lab technique instructions
Here is where I will post a comprehensive list of lab skills students should learn in secondary, listed alphabetically. This list (and the documents in it) were compiled by the NSTA; one of those good ideas that got jettisoned in the interest of "progress;" one of the natural negative consequences of the politically liberal mindset of modern Americans which equate "change" with "improvement." Sadly, this [great!] material has been pushed aside to nurture the latest trend.
- Acid and water mixing
- Ammeter Use
- Aneriod Barometer reading
- Balance use
- Bending Glass Tubing
- Benedicts test for sugar
- Biuret test for protein
- Boiling point determination
- Bunsen burner
- Buret use
- Conductivity test in solids
- Contour line drawing
- Crucible use
- Cutting glass tubing
- Daphnia raising
- Decanting liquid
- Distilling liquids
- Dropping pipette use
- Electrolysis
- Electroscope
- Evaporation dish use
- Filtering solids
- Fire Polishing glass
- Gas collection and displacement
- Gas generation
- Generating gas thistle
- Glass tubing insertion
- Graduated cylinder use
- Graph line
- Light Microscope use
- Melting point determination
- Metric ruler
- Odor testing
- Pedigree chart
- Pipette use
- Protractor use
- Remove exces slide stain
- Ruler English units
- Scanning Electron Microscope
- Starch test with iodine
- Stereo Photograph viewing
- Test tube shaking
- Thermometer reading
- Topographic profile making
- Voltmeter use
- Volume of solids
- Volumetric flask use
- Watch glass evaporation
- Weighed solid transfer