Lab Reports

Heading

• Your Name
• Class Period
• Date
• 5 points

Title

• Should be detailed enough to highlight the purpose of the lab
• Not silly, cute, or short
• 5 points

Objective

• What is the purpose for doing the investigation?
• ex. "The purpose of the lab is to .........
• 10 points

Background

• Explain what you know (either from class or from google) about the investigation.
• Explain what you are attempting to do and why!!!
• This should be a paragraph minimum
• 15 points

Hypothesis

• this will not always be necessary
• use when YOU are designing the experiment

Materials/procedures

• do not copy the step by step procedures of a lab you are given -- just summarize the overall procedures.
• if you are designing your own lab, you will need to include step by step procedures
• 10 points

DATA/OBSERVATIONS

• very very important
• Should include units of measurement after numbers, data tables, be well organized, clearly labeled
• 30 points

Conclusion

• this should summarize in a few sentences what the results were
• complete sentences, thought should flow and communicate understanding of lab
• 25 points