Lab+Notebook+Guidelines

=Lab Notebook Requirements=

Why Lab Notebooks?
Lab notebooks are found throughout higher education and industrial laboratories. Notebooks are an essential component to modern research. They are also a great reference to help you remember what you did and what your results were.

Your Notebook Must:
1. Have all headings underlined 2. Have lines made with a straight edge where appropriate (creating tables, graphs, etc.) 3. Be written in complete sentences 4. A procedure with written words as well as drawings of experimental set-up. 5. Have mistakes crossed out with a single line ONLY (no scribbles, white-out, earasing, etc) Example: Two ml of water were put in to the beaker graduated cylinder 6. Be written in ink (choose a pen that won’t bleed through the paper easily) 7. NOT have any pages ripped out. 8. Have a table of contents in the front of the notebook 9. Have all pages numbered in the lower right corner

Grading Lab Notebooks
1. Labs reports will be worth 50 points each. 2. There will be a peer review session before each experiment is due where you will have the opportunity to have another student evaluate report and make adjustments before you hand it in. 3. A sample rubric is found on the wikispace.

Here is the Word document version if you want to print & paste it into your notebook: