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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

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