Lab notebook set up
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The document provides a 15 step process for setting up a lab notebook, including adding a title page, table of contents, page numbers, reference materials on scientific method, measurements, and safety guidelines. Students are instructed to personalize the front cover but not the exterior, add class syllabus and safety contract, and leave page 3 blank for future lab instructions.
Lab notebook set up
- 1. August 28, 2012 Lab Notebook Setup Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Place your label on the The first page of your The next 2 pages (front front of your lab notebook is your “title and back) will be used for notebook. Fill in your page”. Write a title and your Table of Contents or name (first and last) and your name. You may TOC. There will be 3 your class period decorate this page to columns (use the red number. personalize it, but do lines as dividers): Date, NOT personalize the Assignment, Page. The exterior of your TOC pages are NOT notebook. numbered.
- 2. August 28, 2012 Lab Notebook Setup Step 4: Step 5: Step 6: The next page (4th page Starting with the very Glue your Lab next page (5th in the i Notebook Guidelines notebook), begin n to the inside of the numbering every page in the upper right hand front cover. t corner. Start numbering h with “1” and you should e reach “96” if you have a 100 page notebook. n o t e b o o k ) w i l l
- 3. August 28, 2012 Lab Notebook Setup Step 7: Step 8: Step 9: Title the last 10 pages Glue the Scientific Glue your Variables of your notebook Method Steps onto in an Experiment “Reference the first page of your sheet onto the back Materials”. This Reference section. of the first Reference should be pg. 87-96. Don’t forget to add page. Call this “87 b” this to your in your Reference Reference TOC. TOC.
- 4. August 28, 2012 Lab Notebook Setup Step 10: Step 11: Step 12: Glue the SI Glue the Metric Tape the small Measurement sheet System Units sheet envelope to the inside onto the next onto the back of the back cover of the lab Reference page second reference notebook and label it (should be pg. 88). page. Call this “pg. “Unfinished Work”. Add this to your 88 b” in your Reference TOC. Reference TOC.
- 5. August 28, 2012 Lab Notebook Setup Step 13: Step 14: Step 15: Add “Mrs. Marshall’s Add “Safety Add “Mapping Out Syllabus” into your Contract” into your the Lab” to your TOC. TOC. The first page TOC. Staple a copy Add the same title to from the syllabus of the Safety Contract pg.3 of your should be added to to pg. 2 of your notebook. Stop here your notebook notebook. This and wait for further (stapling is fine) on hasn’t been signed, instructions. pg. 1. but is a reference for you during year.