Lab Notebook Check List

(See pages 5 and 6 in lab manual)

Student's name & lab section number

Table of Contents – keep up to date

Safety Map

Corrected Buret Calibration plot

Pages numbered

Clearly title each page with experiment title and date

All work is in ink

All data and observations written directly into notebook

and NOT copied from another paper

Clear data tables so anyone can tell what the data are

Dates of data (especially important if data collected over

several days)

Neat – No scribbles or white out – No numbers over-written

– errors have simple line through but still legible.

Pre-lab and post lab calculations (May be done on scratch

paper and then recopied into notebook.)

Summary of results (conclusions)

Qualitative observations as well as numbers

Computer charts, chromatograms, etc. attached