1. Setting up a Lab Notebook
Friday
August 16, 2013

2. STARTER Put in order the steps of the Scientific Method
Draw a conclusion
Form a hypothesis
Design an experiment
State a problem
collect and record data
STARTER

3. STARTER- answers Put in order the steps of the Scientific Method
State a problem
Form a hypothesis
Design an experiment
Collect and record data
Draw a conclusion
STARTER- answers

4. In all fields of science, experimenters keep notebooks
In all fields of science, experimenters keep notebooks. Frequently, it’s the only proof they have to prove they’ve performed an experiment. As a result, it’s vital that lab notebooks be carefully managed so that people doing follow-up experiments can reproduce and verify the data collected. One of the most important things about lab notebooks is that they’re honest. If you do an experiment and it works out, everything in there needs to be 100% true so that others can follow the lab. If an experiment doesn’t work out, a good lab notebook can save others many hours of time by showing them what doesn’t work in an experiment. No matter what, lab notebooks need to be complete, even if the results are poor.
Why have a lab notebook?

5. Setting up a Lab Notebook
Sections in a Lab Notebook
Title Page
Table of Contents
Numbered Lab Pages
Glossary
Starters
Setting up a Lab Notebook

6. Researcher: ________________________ Indian Woods Middle School Ms
Researcher: ________________________ Indian Woods Middle School Ms. Fulbright’s _____ Grade Science Class –
Title Page

7. Four pages after the title page for a table of contents.
Name of Lab
Date of Lab
Pages
Table of Contents

8. All labs need to be in the following format on numbered pages.
Purpose:
Background:
Variables:
Hypothesis:
Materials:
Procedure:
Results:
Conclusion:
Numbered Lab Pages

9. AT LEAST thirty pages from the end, begin this section.
Glossary

10. AT LEAST twenty pages from the end, begin this section.
Starters

11. Reaction Lab
EXAMPLE LAB