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 lab notebook. Page 1: Title Page It’s usually a good idea to leave two or three pages after the title page for a table of 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 important to 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 performed Date the lab write-up (or lab report) is due Title 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 not sure 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.

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Page 1: Lab Notebook Guide - St. Francis Preparatory SchoolLab Notebook Guide Purpose: Why have a lab notebook, anyway? In all fields of science, experimenters keep notebooks. Frequently,

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.