ACTIVITY #1

Useful or
Harmful
Substances

Materials:
Different Pictures of
Useful or Harmful
Materials
Paste
Colored Paper (Red &
Green)

PROCEDURE

Create a collage of pictures that are harmfu

and useful.
Draw a Traffic Light. Paste all harmful pictu
for RED light and useful for GREEN light.
Write the word STOP for the RED light and G
or GREEN light.

RED MEANS STOP: WHAT THINGS WILL

HARM YOU?

Identify helpful and harmful

substances found in the
home and school (i.e.,
medications, vitamins,
cough syrup, substance that
may cause allergies,
products danger symbols,

SOAPS

Soaps are mainly used

as surfactants for washing
, bathing, and cleaning,
but they are also used in
textile spinning and are
important components of
lubricants.

DETERGENT
A detergent is a
surfactant or a mixture
of surfactants with
"cleaning properties in
dilute solutions.

MEDICINES
A pharmaceutical drug (also
referred to as a medicinal
product, medicine, medicati
on, or medicament) is a drug
used to diagnose, cure, treat
,or prevent disease.

PRESERVATIVES
A preservative is a substance
that is added to products such
as foods, pharmaceuticals,
paints, biological samples,
wood, etc. to prevent
decomposition by microbial
growth or by undesirable
chemical changes.

ADDITIVES

Food additives are

substances added to
food to preserve
flavor or enhance its
taste and
appearance.

ANTISEPTICS
are antimicrobial substances that are applied to living
tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis,
or putrefaction.

PESTICIDES
are substances
meant for attracting,
seducing, and then
destroying, or
mitigating any pest.

DISINFECTANT
are
antimicrobial agents
that are applied to
non-living objects to
destroy
microorganisms that
are living on the

INSECTICIDES
An insecticide is a substance
used to kill insects. They
include ovicides and larvicides
used against insect eggs and
larvae, respectively.

PAINTS

is any liquid, liquefiable,

or mastic composition
that, after application to a
substrate in a thin layer,
converts to a solid film. It
is most commonly used to
protect, color, or provide
texture to objects.

SOLVENTS
Common uses for organic solvents
are in drycleaning (e.g., tetrachloroe
thylene), as paint thinners (e.g., toluene,
turpentine), as nail polish removers and
glue solvents (acetone, methyl acetate,
ethyl acetate), in spot removers (e.g.,
hexane, petrol ether), in detergents (citrus
terpenes) and in perfumes (ethanol).

SYNTHETICS
Something made of
artificial material, not
natural items, can be
described
as synthetic

PLASTIC

is a material consisting of any

of a wide range of synthetic or
semi-synthetic organics that
are malleable and can be
molded into solid objects of
diverse shapes.

SODIUM BICARBONATE
Or BAKING SODA
is useful not only for
baking, but also for
medicinal and
household purposes.

Seatwork:
Answer, on
p.12 letter B
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