1/14/16
• DNA: Grab your laptop from the cart. Go to
dvclaura.weebly.com. Open the “Stations 1/14” PowerPoint and
read the instructions for all 3 stations.
Announcements
• Photo was due last night!  If you did not turn it in, you must
still present.
• Presentations will be tomorrow. Meet the guidelines, yo.
• I am checking your Farmville Lab Planning Sheets tomorrow for
accountability.
• Sign up for CIF Track in my room after school today!
Station 1 (Right row of tables)
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This station is a basic lab practicum.
Laura will assist you at this station. We are reviewing/learning:
SI units for mass, volume, distance, and time
Names of lab equipment
How to use a scale (including taring the weight of the container)
How to use a graduated cylinder
Any other basic lab questions that you have! (especially ones that relate to your
Farmville plant lab design)
Station 2 (Middle Row of Tables)
• At this station, you will work on yesterday’s Farmville Planning Sheet with your lab group. Do the
following, in this order:
• 1. Finish filling out the chart for 3 different experiment ideas (you need the entire chart to be complete
for full accountability).
• 2. Talk with your group to decide which of the 3 experiment ideas you actually want to conduct.
Consider whether you will be able to get the materials, whether the experiment has measurable data at
the end, whether the experiment will work in a 2 week time frame (the plants may not have flowers in 2
weeks), and whether the experiment is interesting to you (you do not want to hate your life on your
first major write up)!
• 3. Flip the paper over (to “The Decision”) and iron out the details. Include SI units (metric) in the
description of how you will measure things. Write a list of ALL materials you will need, and where you
will get them. Things Laura can get you include: soil (1 type), seeds, plastic cups to plant in, sharpies to
label your plastic cups, scales, graduated cylinders, thermometers, other lab gear (if you show that you
are responsible enough to use it!)
Station 3 (left row of tables)
• At this station, you will begin to familiarize yourself with APA formatting.
• 1. Open one (or multiple) “Example APA Lab” documents on the Documents tab of my DP. These
are labs that my Chem kids wrote last semester!
• 2. Read the Introduction (untitled paragraph right after the title. NOT the abstract). TAKE HANDWRITTEN NOTES ON NOTEBOOK PAPER about the functions of the introduction paragraph,
i.e. What the reader learns from reading it. For example, your notes might begin with:
Introduction:
- Topic sentence introduces the purpose of the experiment
- Next sentence provides research-based background information on the topic, and why it is important
to study.
• 3. Repeat this procedure for as many sections as you have time for. Go through the sections in order.
Label each section (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Data, Analysis and Conclusion, References,
Abstract) as a separate title in your notes.