“Some Like
It Hot” Lab Write-up
Introduction
Your final task is to formally write-up your
conclusions and reflections about the microbial growth experiment and combine
this with the introduction that you wrote. The components of this write-up are
as follows:
- State the hypothesis
that you tested
- Explain your thoughts behind your hypothesis – remember it
is an educated answer to the
experimental question. Your
point of view needs to be supported by a logical argument as well as any
resources (notes, activities, discussions in class, materials outside of
class).
- Construct a graph that shows how the number of colonies or
boxes covered by bacteria was affected by the various herbs/spices.
- Make inferences based on your observations.
- Be
sure to refer to your data/observations specifically to support your
inferences.
- Be sure that you answer the experimental question that you
were investigating. Make sure that
your answer to your question is supported clearly by data/observations.
- Using the data you collected, make a claim about your
hypothesis and the data. Was
the hypothesis supported or not supported by the results of your
experiment?
- Be
sure to refer to your data/observations specifically when evaluating your
hypothesis.
- Discuss all sources of error, which may have impacted the
results.
- Discuss each error and the specific impact it may have had
on the data and/or how you interpreted it.
- Evaluate your experimental setup – Do you think that the
experiment worked well?
Why? What changes would
you make? Why would you make them?
- Based on any and all errors – how reliable are the results
and your evaluation of your hypothesis? Do you trust your data? Why or why not?
Writing Conventions - make sure
to:
·
Write in the 3rd
person and avoid the 1st person – avoid I, we, my, our, etc. as much
as possible and instead use phrases such as “the group” or “the hypothesis.”
·
Use only the past tense when
writing about experiments you did.
·
Write in paragraph form with
complete sentences – not in bulleted, outline form with the letters and numbers
seen above.
·
PROOFREAD
Your completed write-up of this experiment is
due in class on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
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