Required: Graph-ruled (quad-ruled) composition-bound notebook.

• Your lab notebook is going to be a major part of your grade.
– You’ll be doing all your labs in one notebook this year.
– I’ll be writing comments back to you in the lab notebook.
– In some instances, colleges/universities actually review your lab notebook when considering how much credit to award you.
• This means you better keep a neat one and if you don’t have one today, you better write these next directions down somewhere.

• On the first page in the notebook, write out a neat title.
• Lower down, write out your table of contents.
• “Number” the page as ‘A.’
Advanced Placement Biology
Laboratory Notebook
Table of Contents
A
Investigation
1. Artificial Selection
Page #
1 -
Date
9/5 -

• Reserve the next page for more contents and label it ‘B.’
B

• Label the third page in the notebook as ‘1.’
• Add a title.
• Include your name and lab partners.
• Consult the Informal Lab Report and
Notebook Rubric for what to do next…
Lab 1 – Artificial Selection 1
Name: ________ Partners: ________
________
________
Materials:

• Write in ink. Cross off any mistakes with one neat line.
• Number each page.
• Reserve about five pages per lab.
• Be neat. Even if you’re not a neat person or have messy handwriting, be neat.
– I’m serial.
• Don’t be conservative when it comes to space. I promise you’re not going to fill up the notebook.
– And the trees are already dead. Let it go.