Lab Safety: The Interactive Game of "Don’t Endanger the Owls"

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Lab Safety: The Interactive Game of “Don’t Endanger the Owls”

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Lab Safety: The Interactive Game of “Don’t Endanger the Owls”
The course Lab Safety: The Interactive Game of “Don’t Endanger the Owls” is an online class provided by Rice University through edX. The skill level of the course is Introductory. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn, through an interactive game, lab safety best practices.

Course description

SCOPE: To create an interactive learning module to help reinforce the concept of maintaining lab safety where hazardous materials are used in various laboratories. Academic laboratories where hazardous materials are used are potentially dangerous places. Taking the necessary precautions to avoid unnecessary hazards is paramount for the safety of all involved. In this course, you will learn about lab safety through an interactive game called “Don’t Endanger the Owls”. The characters in the game include Wise Owl, Owlet, and the Zombie Squirrels. Owlet is the student figure and Wise Owl is Owlet’s sage advisor / professor figure. In the game, your goal is to stop the Zombie Squirrels from spreading their Zombiegen by finding an “Anti-Zombiegen” in the lab that will counteract the effects of the Zombiegen. In order to find the Anti-Zombiegen, you will journey through three lab rooms: the biology lab, the chemistry lab and the analytical lab. Along the way, you will learn safe laboratory practices. In the end, if you follows safe laboratory practices, you will find the Anti-Zombiegen and saves the campus from the Zombiegen outbreak. “Don’t Endanger the Owls” is a collaboration between the instructors of Rice University’s Responsible Conduct of Research Graduate Course, Rice’s Environmental Health and Safety and HyperWindows Inc.

Prerequisites & Facts

Lab Safety: The Interactive Game of “Don’t Endanger the Owls”

Course Topic

Biology and Life Sciences, Chemistry, Science

University, College, Institution

Rice University

Course Skill Level

Introductory

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

Degree & Cost

Lab Safety: The Interactive Game of “Don’t Endanger the Owls”

To obtain a verified certificate from edX / Rice University you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate (49.00 USD) or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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School: Rice University
Topic: Biology and Life Sciences, Chemistry, Science