Good Morning! Please sit at your lab table with you lab notebook.
Lab Notebook Guide - St. Francis Preparatory SchoolLab Notebook Guide Purpose: Why have a lab...
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Lab Notebook Guide
Purpose: Why have a lab notebook, anyway?In all fields of science, experimenters keep notebooks. Frequently, it’s the only
that lab notebooks be carefully managed so that people doing follow-up
How to set up a notebook:
Every lab notebook needs to have the following information. Although it may
seem overly formal, all of the information here is important in a formal labnotebook.
Page 1: Title Page
It’s usually a good idea to leave two or three pages after the title page for a tableof contents. There should be columns for the name of the lab, the date of the
experiments can reproduce and verify the data collected. As a student, it is importantto practice keeping a lab notebook so that you will learn how.
• The name of the student• The name of your teacher (Dr. Sherwood) and your section number.
The inside of the cover of your notebook should include the following information:
Pages 1-4: Table of Contents
lab, the date the lab report is due and the pages on which the lab can be found.
proof they have to prove they’ve performed an experiment. As a result, it’s vital
Your lab notebook will contain the data and observations from your labs. You will type this data to add to your formal lab report.
Page 5: Your first entry.Dates the lab was performedDate the lab write-up (or lab report) is dueTitle of the lab
consist of quantitative (numerical) data arranged in charts, as well as
A good rule of thumb when writing the results section is that if you’re notsure if what you’ve seen is a result, write it down.
Results: This is the section where you write down all of your raw data. It should
qualitative (non-numerical) data, such as bubbles or colors, written out as sentences.