Lab Report

Lab Report

INTRODUCTION (Purpose and rational for the investigation)

TITLE/ TESTABLE QUESTION (Clearly states the independent and dependent variable)

• In a study to determine whether how long a student sleeps affects test scores, the independent variable is length of time spent sleeping while the dependent variable is the test score.

HYPOTHESIS (What you think will happen—answers testable question. “If…then…”)

MATERIALS (List)

PROCEDURE (Steps 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.)

RESULTS/ DATA (Observations, results)

CONCLUSION (Describe your results? Was your hypothesis correct? What error is in the investigation? How could the investigation be improved? What new questions and investigations could be explored? How does your result relate to properties of water?)