Lab Journal and Formal Chemistry Lab Report

Each week students will record notes on their experiments in a lab journal. A lab journal is a place to record observations, data, and notes for each experiment performed at home and in class. This lab journal will be provided as part of your lab fee and given to students the first week of class.

Each week students will choose an experiment from the notes in their lab journal and make it into a formal lab report.

You may find an example of a formal lab report in the back of your Challenge Guide. Also, from The Student Lab Report Handbook p55, here is a good structure for formal lab reports:

• Title Page
• Purpose or Introduction
• Background
• Materials
• Methods or Procedure
• Data (tables)
• Results
• Discussion/Analysis
• Conclusion
• References cited