College Level- Chemistry Lesson Plan
Writing Lab Reports
Overview: In this lesson (50 min), Freshman chemistry students create a lab report on their investigation
of the effectiveness of different sunscreens. The lab report will be created as Mulaboration wiki page,
which can be cooperatively edited and written by each student from any computer that has internet
access.
Objectives
By using the Mulaboration wiki page, students will
cooperatively create a lab report on the effectiveness of
different sunscreens. Students should be able to details
the absorbance and effectiveness of each of the
sunscreens with 100% accuracy.
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Materials
Procedure
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Laptops
Lab Results
Science Text Book
1. Before beginning this activity, students should have the
following background information/materials:
 Results from the previous weeks sunscreen labs
 An overview of how to write a lab report
 How sunscreen works
2. Divide the students into their assigned lab group from
the previous week. Student will work together in these
groups (3-4 students per group).
3. Hand each group a laptop for each member laptops
4. Explain to them they must write a chemistry report on
the previous weeks lab, and that the report must
contain an introduction, abstract, data, data analysis,
discussion, and conclusion section as per university
guidelines.
5. Explain that this must be posted on the Mulaboration
wiki page. They will need to sign up, create a group and
work simultaneously the report.
6. If students have not used Mulaboration before guide
them how to use Mulaboration using tutorial videos
7. Explain to the group that Mulaboration allows the
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College Level- Chemistry Lesson Plan
cooperation of group members to simultaneously work
on a project by editing a single ‘wiki page’
8. If students need help, direct them to the ‘resources
websites’ listed below
Assessment
Students will be graded on a two part, three point rubric.
1. The first part is based on the data they collected.
 Full three points for correct and concise data, within the
guideline of the experiment.
 Two points has some correct and concise data, but
some is incorrect.
 1 point for a poor data
2. The second part will be on the layout of the lab report.
It must have an introduction, abstract, data, data
analysis, and discussion and conclusion sections.
 Full three points correct layout
 Two points for some mediocre layout, missing some key
elements
 One point for a poor/no layout.
Resources
Web links:
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www.inpp.ohiou.edu/~roche/group_page/tips/lab_re
port.pdf - lists How to write a lab report
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_edit - shows how
to edit a wiki page
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S7WVR5LiT0video on how to edit a wiki page
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistrylabexperimen
ts/a/labreports.htm - how to write a lab report
http://mulaboration.muecs.com/Tour -Mulaboration
tutorial videos
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