Lab Report Expectations

Design:

• Describe the control group.
• Describe each of the experimental groups.
• Constants - List all of the things that you did that were the SAME between the control group and experimental groups.
• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable - (including units)

Question and Hypothesis:

• Question: State your QUESTION that the class was trying to answer.
• Hypothesis: State which environment that you believed would have the highest rate of transpiration and include an explanation as to why you selected this.

Procedure:

• Include a basic summary of how the plants were set up and placed in their environments.

Data and Analysis:

• Include a data table of the class results. Differentiate between YOUR data and another group’s.
• Include PHOTOS with captions that were taken each day!
• Graph - Include a graph of your Data - Graphing PERCENT change!
  • Titles and subtitles with units
  • Key for multiple sets of data and error bars
  • Appropriate graph for your data
  • Scale is used when necessary on the x and y axis
  • Plot the SEM +/- 2 SEM

Conclusion

• Claim
  • Restate your hypothesis
  • State if your hypothesis was supported or not supported by your results
• Evidence
  • Use SEM DATA from both your CONTROL group
  • Use SEM Data from your EXPERIMENTAL groups
  • Explain if the error bars overlap and what that means.
• Reasoning
  • Research WHY your results turned out as they did.
  • Explain what you discovered in your research.
  • Sources of Error - Incorrect Results
• Explain what part of your results came out NOT has expected or predicted.
• Include any sources of error that would have contributed to this set of results. If you cannot explain an source of error, then make a prediction about WHY these results were NOT what you expected.