Laboratory Reports

 

All Laboratory reports are to be written as follows:

 

1. In the Student Lab notebook there are two pages for each numbered page. Place the hard overleaf behind the two pages and write the Experiment number, title/subject and date in the appropriate spaces. Include your name and your partner’s name in the proper spaces.
2. The main heading on the page should be the Purpose/Objective of the experiment;
1. What you are going to determine
2. What you are being asked to observe
3. Materials being used

 

3. The next section should be the Pre-Lab. You are to answer a series of questions pertaining to the experiment you will be performing. The introductory paragraph discusses the experiment and provides most of the answers. The rest you will need to find from the text. You will answer all questions.
1. There is always a request for a Hypothesis which you are to supply
2. Additionally, there is a procedural question that you will answer.

 

All of the above must be written in your Student Lab Notebook prior to the actual Lab date and before performing the Procedure

 

4. You will then perform all the procedures as requested in the Laboratory manual and fill in the data tables in the Data and Observations section directly.

 

5. The Analyze and Conclude section answers can also be written directly in the Laboratory manual.

 

6. The final section is Real World Chemistry. This must be answered in your Student Lab notebook. Paraphrasing the question in your answer.

 

7. You will then take out the Data and Observation page and the Analyze and Conclude page from your Lab Manual and attach them to the yellow pages from your Student Lab notebook. These will be stapled together and handed in for grading.

 

8. The grading is based on neatness as well as completing the experiment. It will be as follows:

 

1. Title, Name, Purpose/Objective and Materials                           5 pts.
2. Pre-Lab questions                                                                  20 pts.
3. Data and Observations                                                           30 pts.
4. Analyze and Conclude                                                            30 pts.
5. Real World Chemistry                                                            15 pts.   

 

Fall Semester 2008

Tentative Labs 2008-2009: (Subject to schedule change) 

Please note that all laboratory experiments must be pre-written in the lab notebook according to my instructions prior to performing the actual lab. This is to insure that you are actually aware of what you are supposed to do in the lab and understand what we are attempting to learn and how it relates to chemistry. If this is not done, you will not be allowed to go to lab and will receive a "zero" for the day.                                

Sept. 10-12: - Density  Lab 2.1

Sept. 24-26: - Properties of water Lab 3.2  

Oct. 8-10- Lab. 8.2 - Formation of a Salt

 Nov. 5-7: - Lab. 10.1 Single Replacement Reactions

Spring Semester 2009 

Feb.11 & 13: - Lab. 10.2 Double Replacement

March 25 & 27: - Reactions Lab. 11.2 Mole Ratios   

April 22 & 24: - Lab. 12.1 Observing a Limiting Reactant

May 6& 8: Lab.14.2 Boyle's Law

Chemistry Experiments-Movies

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