Labs require a certain format which at first may seem to be tedious, but in the long run the foundation we build provides students advantages not only in upper level high school science classes, but in higher academic circles. Missing pages, erasing or using correction fluids (white out), skipping pages, and writing in non-permanent ink or pencil in the lab book is consider academic dishonesty. These items afford opportunity to dishonestly manipulate data to meet expected results. Some university and college institutions may remove the students from their program or in the most extreme cases ask the student to leave.
There are two basic types of labs we do: formal write up and an observation write up. I will give the students specific instructions for observation lab write ups as the format will depend on the specific observation lab we are doing. The links are specific handouts given to the students to help them with the formal write up. The technical aspects information is to be followed regardless of lab write up type required.
PreAP Biology Lab Book Set
Up
Lab Write Up Format (Word Document)
Some Technical Aspects of Lab
Write up (See me in class)
Lab Check List (See me in class)
Lab Report Marking Form (Rubric) (See me in class)
The specific labs we are doing or have done are listed below. Lab expectations is gone over in class so there may not be any handout given to the student. When handouts are given, the lab listed will be linked to that document. Please note the documents were converted from their original file type into html and some formatting changes may have occurred. Also, I have tried to indicate which labs were formal write ups and which were observational labs.
Fall
2008 Semester
Vitruvian Man Lab (Formal Write Up)
Cabbage Juice Titration Lab (Formal Write Up)
Cell and Microscope Observation Lab - see me in class
Potato Lab (Formal Write Up)
Photosynthesis Flow Chart (Modified Observation Lab) - see me in class
Cellular Respiration Flow chart (Modified Observation Lab) - see me in class
DNA Electrogelphorsis Simulation Lab - see me in class
Cell Cycle Lab (Class Data) (Formal Write Up)
Spring 2008 Semester
Karyotype Lab (See me in class)
Teddy Graham Lab
Bacteria Observation Lab
Bacteria and Virus Specimen
List
Protista Lab
Protista and Fungi
Specimen List
Plantae Structure lab
Plantae Specimen List
Leaf and Flower Dissection
Porifera and Cnidaria Lab
Porifera,
Cnidaria and Ctenophora Specimen List
Lumbricus Lab and
Dissection images
Platyhelminthes, Nematoda and Annelida Specimen List
Squid Lab
Crayfish Lab
Mollusca and
Arthropoda Specimen List
Perch Lab
Rana Lab
Echinodermata, Fishes
and Amphibians Specimen List
Rattus Lab
Higher Chordates
Specimen List
Mr. Todd Watkins
Science Department
James Bowie High School
2101 Highbank Drive
Arlington, TX 76018
Email: wwatkins@aisd.net
©Todd
Watkins 2006 "All Rights Reserved."
October 15, 2006