AP Biology: Lab Notebook feedback
and Animal Behavior Data
Discussion
October 2013
Focus Areas for Next Lab Notebook
Check
• Specific labs for grading each focus area will be a
part of the rubric next time.
• General organization (ie. Table of contents) still
applies.
– You will also be graded on graphing next time as it will
be a goal in our next few labs.
– Correction areas:
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Organization of Lab Sections
Clarification of variables
Data Tables
Evidence Based Conclusions
Organization of Lab Sections
• Sections of lab clearly organized: Intro—even
if its just the purpose and key concept!;
Hypothesis: clearly delineated!!!
Clarification of Variables
• Methods/Procedure: Steps ok to show setup.
But start to identify IV (specific), DV’s (specific
data you’ll look at), Controls…know why you
are considering them controls). These will
help you to write up a clear procedure in a
formal lab.
Data Tables
• Data Tables: Could your lab boss pick up your
lab notebook and understand what your data
shows…tables vs. thrown on the page data!
Conclusion
• Must be evidence based! Especially for labs
we didn’t write up…a written paragraph will
help you to explain your thinking…notes are
really only ok for formal labs where you are
going to spend more time processing at your
computer.
Animal Behavior Lab
Due Date: _______
• What is your Alternative Hypothesis?
– Where would this go in the formal lab?
• How many Null Hypotheses did you look at?
– Where would you talk about systematically testing
null hypotheses?
– Where might you state the various null
hypotheses?
– Do you have to recalculate chi square to reflect
REJECTing a null hypothesis instead of ACCEPTing
an alternative hypothesis?
– What might you want to graph?!?
Intro…Conclusion…More Conclusion
• The intro should link to the conclusion as well as
the extension part of the conclusion.
– Intro should give basis for studying the particular taxis
(or behavior) in your specific organism.
– The WHY of the conclusion should link to the
intro…eg./what sense organs did they have that
allowed them to accomplish the behavior?
– The EXTENSION part of the conclusion should look
further into the behavior you observed. What studies
have been done on this behavior? How do they
confirm/extend upon what you saw? How could it be
further studied? What Big Idea does this connect to?