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Identifying, Labeling, and Measuring for Experiment Safety
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Audience: Educators and StudentsGrades: 5-8
This NASA video segment explores how astronauts on the space shuttle conduct accurate laboratory investigations and how it is possible to measure the mass of an object in space. Viewers watch as astronauts on board the space shuttle explain that it is important to correctly label all samples so that astronauts know the origin of the samples, the composition of the samples, and safety considerations needed when handling them. Astronauts use a Small Mass Measurement Instrument to measure an object's mass. Viewers see that the mass of the ball on Earth is the same as that in the space shuttle.
Identifying, Labeling, and Measuring for Experiment Safety
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds
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This video clip is part of the Liftoff to Learning: Assignment Spacelab DVD that may be ordered from the Central Operation of Resources for Educators, or CORE →.
Other video learning clips in this series:
Why Controlled Experiments Are Important on Earth and in Space
The Process of Forming a Hypothesis
Using the General Purpose Work Station (GPWS) in Space