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    Lab Report Expectation Guide

    This guideline will help clarify expectations in all lab reports. Feel free to
    add notes as you
    receive feedback from your teacher on grade reports.
    Refer to this every time you write a lab
    report in this class
    . As a whole y
    our report should be neat, and uniformly formatted. It should
    appear professional, which is easy in the age of computers. Remember
    obvious rules, like no
    slang, and no contractions. All good lab reports parallel the scientific
    method.
    TITLE
    Your title
    should be a complete statement that states the purpose and method of
    the experiment. Scientists never feel a need to be cute or catchy with their
    titles.
    (i.e.
    Seahorse resistance to various types of environmental stress over one
    -
    week
    periods
    )
    ABSTRACT
    T
    his is a one
    -
    paragraph summary of the entire experiment including results and
    conclusion. Sometimes you don’t have time to read the whole thing. This
    section is not necessary with shorter lab reports.
    INTRODUCTION
    This section should be in paragraph for
    m with all three subsections connected.
    The total length will depend on the size of the experiment/assignment.
    Include
    the word “Introduction” as a section heading.
    Purpose
    The purpose should be stated first. It should be clear and only one to
    three sen
    tences long. Explain exactly what you intended on discovering
    with your experiment.
    Background information
    This section should state all you know about the topic of the experiment.
    It should be researched and have citations. For the smallest lab report
    s it
    will be a few paragraphs; for the largest lab reports it will be a few pages.
    Hypothesis
    The hypothesis should only one sentence long, and the very last of the
    Introduction.
    MATERIALS
    This section must be absolutely complete. It should include the s
    ize of items if
    the size matters; it should include the temperature if the temperature
    matters.
    The quantity of each item should be clear. As true scientists you will only
    use the
    Metric system. The format should be bullet points. Include the word “Mat
    erials”
    as a section heading.
    Examples:

    6 x 250 mL beaker

    tap water, room temperature

    5 x strips of black construction paper (5 cm x 25 cm)
    METHOD
    Every detail must be mentioned. A guiding rule is you should be able to
    give this
    lab report to someone i
    n California, and they could duplicate the experiment
    exactly. The steps should be numbered. Include the word “Method” as a
    section
    heading.
    RESULTS
    First present you quantitative (or measurable) data in a
    data table
    , and then in a
    graph
    . The title of
    each should be as clear as the title of your report (it is often
    the same title). All graphs and tables should have titles, clear headings,
    units of
    measurement, and be done by a computer, or at least really neat. Use the
    appropriate scale on graphs and
    be sure to label your axes. Typically the
    independent (or manipulated) variable will be on the x
    -
    axis. You should include a
    narrative
    of your results. This is simply a one or two sentence summary of your
    results in word form.
    Qualitative results are
    often appropriate also. They include observations that
    were a result of your experiment, but not something you measured.
    CONCLUSION
    The point of any experiment is to prove something based on data. In your
    conclusion you answer the purpose of the experim
    ent and reinforce your answer
    with data. In a well designed and carried out experiment, your data should
    constitute proof.
    First you will restate your purpose and address your hypothesis. Then you
    will
    refer to your data and connect it back to the pur
    pose. This should be the “A
    -
    ha”
    moment of the scientific process.
    Next you will address any flaws you had in the design or execution of your
    experiment. Be complete and critical of yourself; it may allow the judge to
    be
    sympathetic when grading your rep
    ort.
    Lastly propose follow
    -
    up experiments. How can your experiment be made
    better? How could another experiment extend our knowledge further?
    What
    other ideas might this be applied to? Consider open
    -
    ended questions that arise
    as a result of your effor
    ts.
    This entire section should be any where from a page to several, depending
    on
    the scale of your experiment.
    Lastly, appreciate your contribute to human knowledge. Every
    experiment,
    even in this class, is a step forward for our entire global com
    munity.

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