Science Lab

Requirement
1. Infrastructure needed for Composite Science Laboratory:

Recommendations for Infrastructure

Category /
S. No. Requirements
Materials needed
1 Physical  Minimum Lab. Room size 600 [Link].
Infrastructure
2 Storage  A separate room or cupboards within lab for consumables and
non- consumables items in the lock and key mechanism, thus
ensuring a safety, dust and vermin-free environment.

3 Teaching  Preferably an intelligent board with an internet

facility Facility or white / green board.

4 Demonstration  The demonstration table should also have a sink along with a
Table water tap. In the laboratory, seats are made available to the
students, so students sit at the allotted place and note the
instructionsfrom the teacher.
 40 seating facilities (lab stools)

5 Display / Notice  Do’s & Don’ts/ rules for the laboratory use/ safety
Board procedures
 List of practical activities
 Timetable- (laboratory timetable)
 Emergency Contact numbers
6 Gas/ heating  Preferably gas pipeline. (2 heating burners)
7 Sink with Water  8 sinks with water supply
supply
8 Waste  02 bins to be installed for biodegradable and non -
management biodegradable waste.
 Flammable chemicals bottles must be packed separately. Empty
chemical bottles can be packed incartons/sacks. Disposal must
be sent to the Material Management Division of the school.

9 Fire extinguisher  To be installed at a prominent place within the laboratory or in

the corridor outside the laboratory.
10 Exhaust fans  2 in number
11 Medical First Aid  2 in number
Kit
12 Heating facility  One Heater should be available in the lab to conduct Heat
related experiments
 2. Minimum requirement of equipment / items for a Composite Science laboratory

a) List of Non-Consumable Items (for a batch of 40 students):

S. No Materials Required Requirement S. No Materials Required Requirement

1 Assembled Microscope 10 26 Concave Lens 10

2 Test Tubes 10 27 Separating Funnel 10
3 Boiling Tubes 20 28 China Dish 10
4 Beakers (100ml) 10 29 Petri Dish 10
5 Beakers (500ml) 5 30 Needles 10
(To keep the Coverslips)
6 Conical Flask 5 31 Laboratory Thermometer 10
7 Tripod Stand 10 32 Spring Balance (0-250 gm) 4
8 Wire Gauze 10 33 U-Shaped Magnet 5
9 Filter Paper 10 Boxes 34 Specimens 20
10 Assembling Box (Wooden 5 35 Permanent Slides 80
Box for keeping Few
Things)
11 Funnel (Small) (Both Glass 10+10 36 Pin Hole Camera 4
and Plastic one)
12 Funnel (Big) (Both Glass 5+5 37 Kaleidoscope 5
and Plastic one)
13 Spatula 20 38 Magnetic Compass 5
14 Round Bottom Flask 5 39 Bar Magnet 10
(Small)
15 Laboratory Thermometer 10 40 Iron Fillings 4 Boxes
16 Glass Rod 10 41 Iron Stand 4
17 Droppers (Big+Small) 10+10 42 Thumb Pins 2 Box
18 Deflagrating Spoon 5 43 Bunsen Burners To be
attached to
gassupply
accordingly
19 Plane Mirrors 10 44 Glass prism 4
20 Stands for plane Mirrors 10 Pairs 45 Gas Jar 4
21 Test Tube Holder 10 46 Pair of Tongs 5
22 Scissors 4 47 Laptop/ Desktop Set 2 set up
23 Charts for Display 15 48 Convex Mirror 10
24 Portraits (as per choice) 20 49 Convex Lens 10
25 Concave Mirror 10
 b) List of Consumable Items (for a batch of 40 students at any given time):

S. No Materials Required Requirement

1 Hand Wash 2 Bottles

2 Hand Sanitizer 2 Bottles
3 Iodine Solution 200 ml
4 Copper Sulphate 200 gm
5 Sodium Hydroxide pallets 200 gm
6 Matchboxes 3
7 Slides 10 Boxes
8 Cover Slips 10 Boxes
9 Alcohol 1000 ml
10 Litmus Paper (Red and Blue) 20 Booklets Each
11 Sodium Chloride 2000gm
12 Hydrochloric Acid 200 ml each
(Both Dilute and Concentrated)
13 Methyl Orange 2 Bottle
14 Phenolphthalein 2 Bottle
15 Lime Water
16 Magnesium Ribbon 4 Coils
17 Sulphur Powder 200 gm
18 Zinc Granules 2 Bottle

c) Biological Science requirements (for a batch of 40 students at any given time):

S. No. Specimen Required Number

1 Insectivorous Plants 3
2 Hydrilla 2
3 Model of different types of teeth 2
4 Model of a Simple pendulum 2
5 Life Cycle of Silkmoth 2
6 Root Nodules (Rhizobium) 2
 d) Equipments and items Requirements (for a batch of 40 students at any given time):

S. Permanent Slides Required Number

No.
1 Different Shapes of Bacteria (Bacilli, Cocci,Spirilla) 2 Each
2 Amoeba 2
3 Amoeba- Binary Fission 2
4 Hydra 2
5 Bread Mould 2
6 Spirogyra 2
7 Budding in Yeast 2
8 Paramecium 2
9 Chlamydomonas 2