School Science Experiment Goes Horribly Awry

[Jazzy]

The lesson in a Houston area high school this morning was two parts chaos, one part explosion.



More than 150 students were evacuated from the Galena Park High School after chemicals exploded in a beaker, reported the Houston Chronicle. No one was injured during the experiment, which was oddly being conducted during a communications class.



“We’re trying to figure out why in a communications applications class students were performing science experiments,” Craig Eichhorn, spokesman for the Galena Park Independent School District, told the paper.



Campus and district administrators were interviewing students and teachers from the class to determine how the accident occurred. The school district has a Twitter account designed to be used to communicate news, announcements, and emergency notifications. The account had no mention of the incident, however.



Students typically learn how to express ideas in the communications class, sometimes using visual examples or talking about life experiences, Eichhorn said.



“We’re going to get to the bottom of it and find out how it happened,” he said.



Link: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/14/galena-science-experiment-goes-awry/

 

[The Dragon Master]

Other than why a communication's class was playing with chemicals, why did the school give them chemicals that could explode?



I wonder what the experiment was

 

[Rapunzel]

Other than why a communication's class was playing with chemicals, why did the school give them chemicals that could explode?



I wonder what the experiment was

All secondary schools have certain chemicals that can explode given the right combination and quantity.



The question is...why wasn't the teacher overseeing the class? and if he/she was, why can't he/she explain what happened?

 

[The Dragon Master]

[quote name='The Dragon Master']Other than why a communication's class was playing with chemicals, why did the school give them chemicals that could explode?



I wonder what the experiment was

All secondary schools have certain chemicals that can explode given the right combination and quantity.



The question is...why wasn't the teacher overseeing the class? and if he/she was, why can't he/she explain what happened?[/quote]

They do, but student rarely get to handle the chemicals in that sort of quantity and concentration. Any chemical solutions made in class use a highly diluted solution. You don't tend to meet chemicals in their more pure form until collage.



And that is a good question too! The student should have and a worksheet that would have explained everything.

 

[Rapunzel]

Two very good points. You're quite right.



I wonder if we'll ever find out what really happened?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Hopefully

I want to know what they were doing. I'm a nosy bugger

 

[Evil Eye]

I want to know what they were doing.

So you can do it too?

 

[The Dragon Master]

[quote name='The Dragon Master']I want to know what they were doing.

So you can do it too?

[/quote]



Nah

Just out of curiosity. Most of the chemicals that I use are explosive any way

 

[Cranos]

We used to explode things in chemistry class, so I don't really get what all the fuss is about...

 

[Rapunzel]

We used to explode things in chemistry class, so I don't really get what all the fuss is about...

A bigger explosion maybe?