How to Keep Your Lab Journal

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How to Keep Your Lab Journal
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RIGHT NOW DO THESE THINGS

• ARE YOU READY..

I SURE HOPE YOU ARE..
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On The Cover

CHEMISTRY-CANOVA _________ Period ___
YOUR NAME
YOUR PERIOD
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1. ON THE INSIDE COVER

• -Write your lab partner(s) name, home phone
  number, cell phone number, email address, aim
  name, home address, and their class schedule.
• -Basically everything you might need in order to
  contact them.
• -Also, in the upper right hand corner, write down
  your lab station number.

Joe Schmo Lab3 908-555-1234 h908-555-4321
cjschmo_at_email.comjschmo-aim24 Mockingbird
Ln1-Chemistry Rm 2322-Chem Lab3-English Rm
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2. Number Your Pages

• -In the upper right hand corner, number the first
  25 pages right now.
• -Do not number the back side of the pages.

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3. Table of Contents

•  -Your Table of Contents should include the title
  of the lab and the page number in your journal
  where that lab begins.
• -Title the first two pages, Table of Contents

Joe Schmo Lab3 908-555-1234 h908-555-4321
cjschmo_at_email.comjschmo-aim24 Mockingbird
Ln1-Chemistry Rm 2322-Chem Lab3-English Rm
206
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4. Lab Safety Contract

•     Staple the Lab Safety Rules Into Your
  Notebook. Onto Page 3

Safety Rules Folded in Half
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5. Lab Safety Map

•     Draw a map of the room and identify the
  location of all lab safety equipment that you
  see.
• Onto Page 4

TEACHER DESK
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6. Safety Equipment

•     List all of the safety equipment you just
  identified on the map, and explain its function.
• Onto Page 5

1. Goggles-eye protection
2. Blanket-smother fire
3. Etc..

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Stay on page 5 of your Notebook

• The following slides contain important
  information.
• Write down this information in your lab notebook
  on the back of page 4.
• Take notes on the left pages (class notes
  section).
• Put examples on the right pages (pre-lab
  section).
• If the left page contains notes, and nothing is
  written on the right page, draw an X through
  the right page.

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How to Write?Example Prelab Entry
EXAMPLE

6 Date 9/15/07 Partner
Suzie Que Title How to Keep Your Lab
Notebook Purpose To investigate Materials
(alphabetical) Safety (see safety
contract) Diagram (not always needed)
Class Notes How to Write in Lab Notebook

•      Write all pertinent information on the
  RIGHT pages. Save the LEFT pages for special
  instructions or notes.

Procedures Observations
1. 3 Tbsp of glue should be added to cup. None
2. 3 Tbsp of Borax solution should be added to cup. Sticky, gooey, slime formed.
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How to Write?
Class Notes

• -All entries into lab notebook must be made in
  ink, NEATLY (BLUE or BLACK ink ONLY!). NO
  PENCILS (EVER).
• -Use a ruler to draw any tables/charts.
• -If a mistake is made, cross it out neatly with
  a single line
• - DO NOT USE WHITE-OUT

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REMINDERS
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Class Notes

• -You must bring your prepared notebook to the
  laboratory or you will receive a zero on the
  prelab section (worth about 25 of total lab
  grade).
• -Only blue or black ink may be used, no pencil or
  different colored ink.
• No white-out.
• -No loose paper inside lab notebook.

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Before the Lab
9 BE SURE TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PRELAB 1)Date2)Part
ner3)Title4)Purpose5)Materials6)Safety7)Diagr
am8)Procedures/ Observations9)Data/Calculatio
ns
Class Notes

• EXAMPLE SEE PAGE 6
  
  Date 9/15/07
• Partner Suzie Que
• Title How to Keep Your Lab Notebook
• Purpose To investigate
• Materials (alphabetical)
• Safety (see safety contract)
• Diagram (not always needed)
• Procedures Observations

1. 3 Tbsp of glue should be added to cup. None
2. 3 Tbsp of Borax solution should be added to cup. Sticky, gooey, slime formed.
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During/After the Lab



Class Notes
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• 1) Fill in observation section.
• 2) Collect and record data in table.
• 3) If time permits, start calculations.
• 4) Consider the focus of lab questions.
• 5) If required, a formal typed of lab report that
  contains, in addition to what you wrote in your
  lab notebook, a typed conclusion (more info on
  typed lab reports to follow).