Laboratory Projects

Teamwork/Laboratory Projects

Laboratory Notebook

Guidelines for the Laboratory Notebook

Late Laboratory Reports

Teamwork/Laboratory Projects

You will be working in pairs for all of the lab experiments (unless otherwise stated); no students will be allowed to work individually in the lab. Each student must submit his/her own, individual, Pre-Lab Report and In-Lab Report. Each pair of students will then submit a single Final Report for each project. While we encourage you to discuss concepts with other members of your class, each Final Report must represent the unique effort of each pair of students. No individual Final Reports will be accepted, or graded.

Your TAs are required to close the laboratories by the end of your scheduled lab period (i.e., 10:20 AM, 2:20 PM, or 5:40 PM). Note that, at that time, all equipment must be cleaned and put away, lab drawers locked, and In-Lab Reports submitted. In-Lab Reports submitted after this time will be considered late.

Laboratory Notebook

You and your lab partner will be responsible for keeping complete written records, in duplicate, of all your lab measurements and observations in your lab notebooks. If you have a lab notebook that has either yellow or blue carbon pages, note that you must write hard in order to produce legible copies.

At the end of each lab period, you are to give your Graduate Instructor a copy (i.e., the carbon copy, NOT the original) of each page in your lab notebook on which you recorded data, calculations, observations, etc., during that lab period. It is inappropriate to change any data or observations in your lab notebook after you leave the lab.

Guidelines for the Laboratory Notebook

	The required lab notebook for Chemistry 12500 is the Hayden-McNeil Student Laboratory Notebook.
	Record the title of the experiment, a reference to the source of the procedure, the date on which the experiment was done, data obtained in the experiment, and any observations made while doing the experiment in the notebook.
	All entries are to be written in pen.
	All entries in the lab notebook must be legible.
	You should not allow anyone else to make entries in your lab notebook nor should you make any entries in another person's notebook.
	When/if you make a mistake while entering data or observations into your lab notebook, cross out the mistake with a single line so that the erroneous entry remains legible.
	Date and sign each page of the lab notebook upon completing the work.

Late Laboratory Reports

For each experiment, you will be responsible for submitting: (1) a Pre-Lab Report, (2) an In-Lab Report, and (3) a Final Report. The Pre-Lab Report is due during the first 10 minutes of the scheduled lab period. The In-Lab Report is due at the end of the scheduled lab period. The Final Report is due either at the end of the lab period (Lab Project Summaries) or during the first 10 minutes of the scheduled lab period after the experiment is completed (Formal Reports). Fifty percent of the maximum points will be deducted from all late lab reports. No lab reports will be accepted and graded beyond one week after the report is due.