Lab Notebook SetupStep 1:

Place your label on the front of your lab notebook. Fill in your name (first and last) and your class period number.

Step 2:

The first page of your notebook is your “title page”. Write a title and your name. You may decorate this page to personalize it, but do NOT personalize the exterior of your notebook.

Step 3:

The next 2 pages (front and back) will be used for your Table of Contents or TOC. There will be 3 columns (use the red lines as dividers): Date, Assignment, Page. The TOC pages are NOT numbered.

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Lab Notebook SetupStep 4:

The next page (4th page in the notebook) will be your “Reference TOC”. This is set up the same was as the normal TOC (front and back with columns), but will be used for Reference Materials in the back of your notebook.

Step 5:

Starting with the very next page (5th in the notebook), begin numbering every page in the upper right hand corner. Start numbering with “1” and you should reach “96” if you have a 100 page notebook.

Step 6:

Glue your Lab Notebook Guidelines to the inside of the front cover.

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Lab Notebook SetupStep 7:

Title the last 10 pages of your notebook “Reference Materials”. This should be pg. 87-96.

Step 8:

Glue the Scientific Method Steps onto the first page of your Reference section. Don’t forget to add this to your Reference TOC.

Step 9:

Glue your Variables in an Experiment sheet onto the back of the first Reference page. Call this “87 b” in your Reference TOC.

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Lab Notebook SetupStep 10:

Glue the SI Measurement sheet onto the next Reference page (should be pg. 88). Add this to your Reference TOC.

Step 11:

Glue the Metric System Units sheet onto the back of the second reference page. Call this “pg. 88 b” in your Reference TOC.

Step 12:

Tape the small envelope to the inside back cover of the lab notebook and label it “Unfinished Work”.

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Lab Notebook SetupStep 13:

Add “Mrs. Marshall’s Syllabus” into your TOC. The first page from the syllabus should be added to your notebook (stapling is fine) on pg. 1.

Step 14:

Add “Safety Contract” into your TOC. Staple a copy of the Safety Contract to pg. 2 of your notebook. This hasn’t been signed, but is a reference for you during year.

Step 15:

Add “Mapping Out the Lab” to your TOC. Add the same title to pg.3 of your notebook. Stop here and wait for further instructions.

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