Lab Report Breakdown Example: Using the Floating Leaf Disk Experiment
Title page:
course. name and number
descriptive title of the experiment
Introduction:
Focused on light reactions, photosynthesis, and the reactants and products of photosynthesis
Purpose: testing low and high-intensity light
Hypothesis: What I think would happen
Methods/Procedures:
do not list materials
Results:
a narrative explaining what happened (DO NOT USE FIRST PERSON)
table (title, measuring ET 50 (time it took 5/10 or 50% of leaves to rise, low/high intensity, time (minutes)); if 0 rose at 20 minutes, put 20 minutes
graph (average of each trial)
Discussion: conclusion explaining why we got the results we did (ex. why it floated or didn’t float)
Sources: only required to have 1 source; do not use Wikipedia
_______________________________________________________________________
Other:
do not use pronouns (I, you, we, our, etc)
do not use bullet points/commands
use past-perfect tense (ex. “the water was poured into the beaker” instead of “i poured the water into the beaker)
graphs and tables should be copied and pasted, not screenshotted
everyone should graph their own results
Title page:
course. name and number
descriptive title of the experiment
Introduction:
Focused on light reactions, photosynthesis, and the reactants and products of photosynthesis
Purpose: testing low and high-intensity light
Hypothesis: What I think would happen
Methods/Procedures:
do not list materials
Results:
a narrative explaining what happened (DO NOT USE FIRST PERSON)
table (title, measuring ET 50 (time it took 5/10 or 50% of leaves to rise, low/high intensity, time (minutes)); if 0 rose at 20 minutes, put 20 minutes
graph (average of each trial)
Discussion: conclusion explaining why we got the results we did (ex. why it floated or didn’t float)
Sources: only required to have 1 source; do not use Wikipedia
_______________________________________________________________________
Other:
do not use pronouns (I, you, we, our, etc)
do not use bullet points/commands
use past-perfect tense (ex. “the water was poured into the beaker” instead of “i poured the water into the beaker)
graphs and tables should be copied and pasted, not screenshotted
everyone should graph their own results