Requirements for Final Project Reports

The report for your project has three parts

Written Description
This 1-2 page, typed description of your experiment should contain:

1. clearly defined, specific purpose.
2. detailed, step-by-step method or procedure with independent and dependent variables identified. What variables are you keeping constant?
3. a summary of the results you collected in tabular or graphical form, if appropriate.
4. the conclusion you can draw from your results.
5. suggestions for extensions.

The goal of this is that anyone should be able to repeat the experiment from this description.

Oral Presentation
Use your written description as a basis for a 5-minute presentation of your experiment to the class. It is not necessary to carry out the experiment in front of the class, but a sample of the apparatus and a sample measurement would be helpful. Any summary of the results as tables or graphs must be in a sufficiently large format to be clearly visible. Two suggestions are to draw overhead transparencies or use poster board.

Be certain to explain your independent and dependent variables.

Laboratory Notebook
The notebook is a permanent record of the development of your experiment. It must include all purposes, procedures, results, etc., recorded as you do the work. It should also clearly identify the detailed description of the final form of the experiment that you will present.

This experiment is worth 20 points equally divided between the first two parts and the third part.