Formats for Writing Lab Reports

To be successful in your SBAs you should know the proper way and order in
which to write up an experiment and a planning and designing lab.
Writing Up Your Experiment
1. Experiment #
2. Date
3. Title
4. Aim
5. Apparatus/Reagents/Materials
6. Diagram of Apparatus (If diagram is required)
7. Method/Procedure (which should be written in a step-step manner and in
the past tense).
8. Results/Observation
9. Discussion/Analysis of data/Answers to questions
10.Conclusion

Writing Up Your Planning and Designing (P/D) Lab

1.Experiment #
2.Date
3.Title
4.Task
5.Hypothesis
6.Aim
7.Apparatus/Reagents/Materials
8.Diagram of Apparatus (If diagram is required)
9.Method/Procedure (which should be written in a step-step manner and in
the past tense).
10. Variables
a. Controlled variable
b. Manipulated/independent variable
c. Responding/dependent variable
11.Expected Results
12.Discussion of expected results
13.Limitations
Must have all 12 or 13 titles