Title: Name your lab and date it.

Objective: State what you want to achieve in this experiment. What is the question you are trying to
answer?
Method: You should include a summary of the lab procedure in your words. This section should
include the required materials. This section should demonstrate your understanding of what exactly
you measured and how you measured it.
Data: In this section you should include the raw data you measured; generally, an estimate of the error
should accompany all measured values. Be sure to present your data in an organized manner (e.g. a data
table) and to include units.
Data Analysis: In this section you will manipulate the data in order to help you address your question
or hypothesis. Usually this entails performing calculations and/or creating graphs of the data.
Uncertainty & Error: You cannot draw any final conclusions from your data until you think carefully
about how well you can trust your data and what factors may have affected or biased it. Additionally,
you must often propagate the error from your measurements through your calculations and graphs.
Conclusion: Finally, after all this work, what did you find? Use the data analysis to guide your
discussion in this section.
Section

Looking for

Organization/
Neatness
Procedure

All aspects of the lab are included. The lab is neat and well organized.

Data
Data Analysis

Uncertainty/
error
Conclusion
Total

Procedure makes sense and all major steps are included. The lab
must be written and performed to answer the objective.
Data was taken and organized in a usable fashion.
Summarizes the data in a useful way. This section is organized and
labeled properly with important sections highlighted or labeled for
easy identification.
A discussion of the uncertainty of the results. Also a discussion about
sources of error and how they could have been minimized.
A well written discussion of the lab results.

Possible
points
5
10
5
10

5
15
50