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Wk 5 – Summative Assessment: The Smooth Muscle Lab Report [due Mon]Exam ContentThe final step for this assessment is to complete the lab report. As you work through the lab, compile the pieces of your report. To make the experience more interesting, complete the Hypothesis section prior to diving into the lab. When you are satisfied with your report, please complete it, and submit your lab report. ResourcesCenter for Writing ExcellenceReference and Citation GeneratorGrammar Assistance
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Lab Reporting Worksheet – The Smooth
Muscle Lab
In science, reporting what has been done in a laboratory setting is incredibly important for
communicating, replicating, and validating findings. However, writing scientific reports can be a little
overwhelming. There are a set of agreed upon components that the scientific community requires when
reporting scientific experimentation. Answer the following questions to describe what occurred during the
lab you conducted in Labster. Be sure to use complete sentences and descriptions that fully represent
what you experienced. Writing a lab report is less about being correct or incorrect, than it is accurately
reporting what happened and why. So, do not worry about reporting data that might seem counterintuitive
or unexpected. Focus on clearly communicating what you did and what you observed.
TITLE:
What was the title of the lab you completed?
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PROBLEM:
What was the problem you were trying to resolve in the Lab?
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HYPOTHESIS:
What information from the textbook and classroom is relevant for the problem you were trying to resolve
in the lab? Identify the concepts and explain how they are related to the lab problem.
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During the lab, what information from the THEORY section provided additional background information
about the problem? (To review the theory section, launch the Lab and click the “Theory” tab on the top of
the data pad). Identify the concepts and explain how they are related to the lab problem.
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Most scientific experimentation involves examining variables and their relationships. A variable is a
construct that can be changed and studied. Examples of variables are a condition or measurable quantity.
What are the variables you examined in the lab? Which one were you controlling and changing? Which
one were you observing was impacted by your change?
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Developing a hypothesis requires understanding relevant background knowledge. Now that you have
described relevant background information, it is time to develop a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a simple
statement (not a question), grounded in previous research, that predicts the relationship between the
variables being studied. Please make a statement that predicts the relationship between the variables
being studied.
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METHOD:
Describing what you did during a lab supports other scientists in replicating your work. It is through this
consistent replication that scientists are able to see repeating patterns and develop ideas that help move
science forward. When you discuss your data, in a later section, you will have to describe what choices
you made, why you made them, and any concerns about things that occurred that were unexpected. In
order to have enough information to do this, you need to keep very detailed notes. What doesn’t seem
important in the moment may end up being something that explains your findings later. A benefit of
conducting virtual labs when learning science, is that many potential errors are controlled for you. The
virtual lab environment often will alert you if something is not going the way it should. This does not occur
non-virtual settings. The virtual lab setting can be very helpful to learners for this reason. However, we still
have to practice documenting so that those skills are practiced for the lab experiences when technology
will not be there as a coach.
You have already, identify the variables that you studied in the lab in the previous section. Now, take
some time to fully define and describe what each variable is and how it was changed throughout the lab.
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In 3-5 sentences summarize what you did during the lab not including your process of logging into the
system. This section would be much more robust for a non-virtual lab. For this virtual lab, a short, highlevel summary will suffice.
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Describe some of the observations you made. What numbers did you write down or keep track of? What
did each of your senses observe during the lab process? What did you see (ex: changes in colors,
movement, shapes, sizes, patterns)? What did you hear (ex: sounds from reactions, collisions, error
messages)? What did you lab character touch? Did you notice anything that seemed unexpected? Did
you notice anything that you did expect to observe?
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Which parts of the lab required you to think more than others and required more time? Which parts were
simple and completed easily?
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DATA & RESULTS:
Many lessons learned as a result of scientific experiment come from the reporting and analysis of data.
This part of scientific reporting requires detailed descriptions of technical information and quantities as
well as high-level synthesis of information. High-level synthesis requires a mastery of foundational
content in the related scientific field and a complimentary mastery in some field of quantitative and/or
qualitative analysis. For this report, let’s focus on big picture patterns.
What relationships did you notice between the variables you examined? When you changed the
variable(s), how did the other(s) change?
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Did you notice any patterns in your data? Any patterns between the variables?
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DISCUSSION:
The discussion section is used to explain why things might have happened the way that they did in your
experiment. Here, scientists describe any potential anomalies or mistakes and why they think they may
have occurred.
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During your lab, what happened that might have impacted the accuracy of your data? Did the simulation
alert you that an error was occurring? If so, how did you resolve it?
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CONCLUSION:
The conclusion section of a lab report describes how the learnings from the lab experimentation fit in to
prior scientific knowledge. This is done by comparing new information to previously known information
that was identified in the section of your report that discusses background information.
Review the hypothesis section of your report from above and describe how the results of your lab
compare to the background information that you discussed before.
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Once scientists have identified how the new knowledge fits into the old knowledge, they discuss the
implications of the new information for moving forward. In this class, the purpose of study is to learn some
foundational science ideas represented by the course student learning outcomes. Review the course
student learning outcome aligned to this lab in the assignment directions in Blackboard. How is the
information from this lab related to the course student learning outcome? What knowledge has the lab
supported you with learning that is related to this course student learning outcome?
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Following scientific experimentation, scientists usually come up with new questions that result from what
they learned. These new questions often end up leading to new experiments in the future. What
additional scientific things do you wonder about after completing and writing about your lab experience?
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