Lab Report Guide Name

Section

Date

Your lab write up (report) must include each of the sections ("headers" in bold capital letters, left margin) When you write your report put the header at the beginning of each section. Do not include the words in parenthesis; these words are intended as guidelines for completing each section.

(Title)

Background

(What you already know about the subject)

Question/ Purpose/ Problem

(What are you trying to find out, what problem do you expect the experiment will solve?)

Hypothesis

I predict that if ________ then ___________.

Materials

(list all the supplies you used, do not number)

Procedure (list the numbered steps that must be followed to complete the entire experiment)

Data/ Observations

I observed… (written observations, graphs, data tables)

Conclusions

The purpose of this lab was to…

My hypothesis was…

The test concludes that…

According to the data…

This is due to…

Errors may have effected the results such as…

In the Future

(examples of future testing/ studying that could be done to further test/ examine the question, or extend the experiment.