Lab BIOL 2101 notebooks

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Lab BIOL 2101 notebooks
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A Working Lab notebook

• Maintain this notebook throughout your course for
  all experiments.
• The lab notebook is used as a study tool for
  exams, or as a place to write rough drafts of
  labs ( mentioned in class) that are going to be
  submitted along with your Formal Lab.

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A Working Lab notebook

• Put a title page and your name on your lab
  notebook
• The lab notebook should reflect good
  documentation organization of your work.
• Keep notebooks up to date (including a table of
  contents) and have experiments separated by
  section..

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A Working Lab notebook

• Keeping a notebook will help you organize your
  thoughts and provide you with a place to write
  down your ideas and plans for lab experiments.
• The data from this working lab notebook will
  assist you to write your formal lab notebook.

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A Working Lab notebook

• What type of notebook do you need?
• A bound composition book is the only type of
  notebook to be used as the lab notebook and
  another book for formal Lab report

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A Working Lab notebook

• What should you put in your notebook and how
  should it be structured?
• Start on a fresh page. At the top, write the
  date, time, and title of experiment and other
  related activity.
• Any planning you do prior to lab, (calculations,
  the sequence of steps in methods, which lab
  partners will do what) can be recorded.
• Read each lab experiment prior to lab days and
  write the following sections prior to lab

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A Working Lab notebook

• What should you put in your notebook and how
  should it be structured?
• Title of the lab
• Partners for the lab Who are your partners?
  (partners to be written in lab).
• Objectives
• Materials to be used ?
• Equipments List the types of equipment to be
  used and will be provided at start of each lab.
• Methodology Write in bullets form the protocol
  to be used for the experiment.
• Write an overview of each set up the experiment?
  and what is expected in the following week if
  needed.

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A Working Lab notebook

• Some examples of what might be included in a
  multi-week lab
• Week 1..set up experiment and write what you
  will expect the following week if the experiment
  runs for more than a week.
• Week 2..any supplements to your experiment?
  (should be written prior to session). What is
  expected from your observations (should be
  written prior to lab). Record any changes to
  original set up (to be written prior to attending
  the lab) and confirm these changes during during
  lab example changes in the growth of c-Fern.
• Week 3continue observation if needed. Record
  all final observations as required.

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A Working Lab notebook

• What should you put in your notebook and how
  should it be structured?
• Hypothesis what is the hypotheses you are
  testing
• Predictions?
• Data Show all your raw data and rough work. Show
  the formulas to be used to analyze or summarize
  your data.
• Data analysis How to analyse data? Any
  statistical package/software software needed?
  (This data will help drawing graphs, tables,
  charts in your formal lab report). How you will
  summarize the data and make inferences about your
  data. (For example Median, Mean, Mode, Standard
  deviation, how will you calculate p value, etc.)
• Conclusions How will you interprete the data?
  and how does it relate to the hypothesis? Brief
  notes are appropriate here since this will
  assists in the formal lab report.

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A Formal Lab notebook/Formal Lab report

• You are required to maintain Formal Lab notebook
  for C-Fern
• Or you may submit the formal lab report either in
  the form of a Formal Lab notebook or in the form
  of stapled sheets in a file ( Refer doc Formal
  lab report).

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Good luck for both the Working the formal lab
report