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

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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