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DATE _______________
PERIOD _____
ANATOMY OF A LAB REPORT
1. Cover Page
The cover includes name, date, period, title of lab activity, and a picture of
the set-up of the lab (equipment). Must be on unlined paper and in ink or
color!
2. Original Lab Sheet
Include the original laboratory sheet with your lab report. Be sure that all
sections are completed. This is the first page of the report after the cover.
A. Purpose/Problem
The Purpose section of the Lab Report, answers the following
questions:
Include any background information that will help the reader understand the science
concepts that will be important for this lab.
You may need to briefly describe the equipment or the way the materials were set-up in
order to explain how the lab was done or how the hypothesis was tested.
STATE YOUR HYPOTHESIS (in an essay this would be your thesis statement)
Restate in a few sentences the main results and your explanation of the results.
Explain any errors in your data. If there were any errors hypothesize about what
might have caused them.
Hypothesis correct or not? A simple statement of fact.
What did you learn from this lab or what additional question would you want to
investigate further? Make a statement about what you discovered or what additional
experiment would you like to do to answer a related question.
Describe how the main idea of this experiment applies to understanding other areas
of science or use other concepts in science to discuss the results of this experiment.
Your teacher may give you some suggestions for a topic. You will probably need to do
some research here.
Instead, you may relate the subject of this lab to a personal experience in your life.
How does what you learned from this lab help explain that experience?
OR
(This section determines the difference between an "A" and "A+" lab. One or 2 sentences
do not qualify as a step further. It must be a full 5-8-sentence paragraph that goes
above and beyond the expectations.)