Laboratory Report Terminology

What is the reason you are doing this lab? What are you trying to find out?

• Materials

• Procedure

• Purpose

• Title

Items needed to complete the laboratory experiment.

• Materials

• Procedure

• Purpose

• Title

Step-by-step directions

• Materials

• Procedure

• Purpose

• Title

The name of the experiment.

• Materials

• Procedure

• Purpose

• Title

Written in the form of an "if - then" statement.

• Control

• Dependent Variable

• Hypothesis

• Independent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The variable that is changed by the experimenter.

• Control

• Dependent Variable

• Hypothesis

• Independent Variable

What the experimenter observes based on the change made in the experiment.

• Control

• Dependent Variable

• Hypothesis

• Independent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What remains the same throughout the experiment.

• Control

• Dependent Variable

• Hypothesis

• Independent Varible

Summary of your findings.

• Analysis

• Conclusion

• Data

• Observation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

You use your five senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste (even though tasting is not a good idea in science).

• Analysis

• Conclusion

• Data

• Observation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8