Lab Report

Introduction/Problem (at least 1 paragraph, but often two or more)

Certain body measurements should coordinate with body height (Pearson 2016). This is

why some people are shorter than others. It has been shown that taller people have longer arm

and leg bones than shorter people, but that other dimensions of the person are not related to

height like diameter of throat or waist size(Uvino 2010). These circumference measurements

are more likely to be correlated with body mass index or body fat (Newton et al 2018).

Hypothesis (One or two sentence statements of what you think will happen when you do

the experiment. Should be based on information in your problem section and should be

tested by your experiment.)

I predict that if I measure two people, the taller person will have longer length measurement

than shorter people. I also predict that circumference measurements will not correlate to height.

Material Used (What you need to do the experiment. Should be enough information for

someone to collect everything you need to do the experiment.) / Experimental procedure

(How you did the experiment, with enough detail for someone else to do exactly what you

did.)

First, you need to let me know everything you needed for your experiment. For example, if you

needed to have two test subjects you might say, “Two people, (with all the descriptions that

might be useful to future scientific studies like age, weight, height, sex etc) were chosen as test

subjects.” For supplies, you can either list either as a list or in sentence form.

Next, you need to tell me how you did the experiment in your own words in paragraph form. This

section will have all the information everything you did and how you measured it. You are

required to include at least one representative photo from your experiment in this section, but as

many photos, tables or figures that help your reader know what you did can be included here. It

should be enough to recreate the experiment. Overall, Material Used/Experimental Procedure

section should answer the question “What did you do during your experiment?”

Results

The final part of the experimental procedure includes how your experiment went all the data you

collected. This will be reporting of the measurements without any interpretation. Statistical

analysis would be here. Here you answer, “what information did you collect?”. You must include

at least one table, figure or graph of your data to help the reader understand what you

discovered.

Discussion/Conclusion

In the Discussion/Conclusion section, you should be answering the question, “What does your

data mean?” What did you learn from your experiment? If there is or is not a difference, why is

this important? You will use what you wrote as the reason you did the experiment, your

hypothesis and your results to make conclusion about what your results mean. You need to

synthesize all the information from the lab.

Literature Cited/ Reference (at least 3)

You have to know enough to even think about doing an experiment. Because of this, you should

always have at least three references. This can be your textbook, your lab or the internet

sources that are scientifically reliable. Of course, in science, peer reviewed articles are the best

sources, but that is beyond the scope of this class. You need to write up references in APA

style. Here are the notes from the original assignment.

References/Works cited – this is where you give credit where credit is due. If you looked up any

information, if you used the procedure given in the instructions, then you need to cite your

sources. Plagiarism will result in a ZERO. (If you need a guide, here is very thorough reference:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20110928111055_949.pdf) (And for those who are

further interested in lab report formats, there's a good article here:

http://biology.about.com/od/biologylabhowtos/a/labreports.htm )