What are the labs like?
The lab classes (Chemistry, Biology, Physics, etc) will have 16 hands-on lab sessions during the school year. A lab session is approximately 2-hours in length. The labs are held in the Bay Ho/UTC area. The labs alternate weeks with the online Zoom lectures, which means week 1 will be a lab, week 2 will be an online lecture, week 3 lab, week 4 lecture, and so on throughout the year. The subject matter of each lab is designed to parallel the material you are currently studying in the textbook. The labs aren't "hard", but they are designed to be a little more involved than a typical homeschool co-op. You will find them to be fun and interesting! Most of the labs will then have a Lab Report (see below).
Lab Reports
Your lab report requirements will vary depending on the lab. Most lab reports will require the (5) elements listed below. Others will require you to answer specific questions on a handout, and a few of them will be 'participation only'. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS in Canvas to see what's required for a given lab!
If your lab instructions call for a written, 5-element lab report, then organize your lab report as follows. Use Roman numerals and section headings. Can be hand-written or typed. See student examples posted below.
I) Title
If your lab instructions call for a written, 5-element lab report, then organize your lab report as follows. Use Roman numerals and section headings. Can be hand-written or typed. See student examples posted below.
I) Title
- Write the lab title, your name, date, and class.
- State clearly what you were trying to do in the lab
- List the equipment and supplies you used
- Explain what you did, and how you did it
- Sketch the lab set-up. Hand-drawn sketches or CAD is allowed. Simply photographing the lab apparatus without describing/labeling all the components is not allowed and you will have points deducted.
- Write-out the balanced chemical reactions if there were any.
- Present your results. If there was math, show the math!
- Use charts and graphs as needed.
- Label everything and show all units.
- Write a closing paragraph. What did you find out? What did you learn?
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