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Appearance
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Journal is sloppy. Writing
is illegible. White out and erasures are evident. Ruler is not used to
make
straight lines.
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Journal is neat but
the writing is not always legible. Mistakes are not always crossed out
with
a single line. A ruler is not always used. No white out or erasures are
evident.
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Journal is neat and
writing is reasonably clear and legible. Mistakes are crossed out with
a
single line. A ruler is used to create tables and graphs and is mostly
used
to cross out mistakes. No white out or erasures are
evident.
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Journal is extremely
neat and writing is very clear and legible. Mistakes are crossed out
with
a single line. A ruler is always used to make straight lines. No white
out
or erasures are evident.
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General
Guidelines
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Journal is not set up
as required. Table of contents is missing. Ordering of lab sections is
not
followed. Safety contract is missing. No lab map is included. Pages may
or
may not be numbered. Blue or black is frequently not used.
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Journal is mostly set
up as required. Table of contents is included in the first 2 pages.
Most
sections of each lab are ordered as required. Safety contract or Lab
map is missing. Most pages are numbered. Blue or
black
ink is mostly used.
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Journal is set up as
required. Table of contents is included in the first 2 pages. Sections
of
each lab are ordered as required. Safety contract is placed in the
journal.
Lab map is included. Pages are numbered with few errors. Only blue or
black
ink is used.
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Journal is set up as
required. Detailed table of contents is included in the first 2 pages.
Sections
of each lab are ordered as required. Safety contract is attached to the
journal.
Lab map is attached. Pages are numbered with no errors. The same color
ink
is used consistently.
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Before
the Lab
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Labs are not titled
as required. Purposes and hypotheses are not completed. Procedures are
not
summarized and cannot be followed to complete the laboratory. No data
tables
are created.
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Only the first page of each
lab is titled as requested. Purposes or hypotheses are completed,
but are not clear or
indicate
that the concept is not understood. Procedures are summarized and can
be
used to complete the lab, but with many corrections. An attempt is made
to
create data tables to collect data. Many changes to the tables are
necessary.
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Each lab is titled as
requested. Purposes and hypotheses are complete and clear for each lab.
Procedures are
summarized
and can be used to complete the lab with few corrections. An attempt is
made
to create data tables to collect data. Few changes to the tables are
necessary.
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Each lab is titled as
requested. Purposes and hypotheses are complete and clear for each lab
and
show an understanding of the concept being tested.
Hypotheses
are supported by research. Procedures are summarized and can be used to
complete
the lab with no corrections. Tables are created that are used to
successfully
collect the data.
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During
the Lab
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Data is poorly recorded.
Units are missing or are inconsistently noted.
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Data is clearly recorded
with correct units.
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Observations and data
are clearly noted. Data has correct units and significant
digits.
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Detailed observations
and data are clearly noted. Data has correct units and significant
digits.
Measurement uncertainty is correctly recorded where appropriate.
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After
the Lab
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Calculations have major
errors or are not shown. Graphs are not labeled. Conclusion not
finished or not based on
data
of the experiment.
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Calculations contain
minor errors. Graphs are not completely labeled. Conclusions are not
clearly
written, but appear to be based on the data of the experiment.
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Calculations are correct.
Graphs are titled and properly labeled. Conclusions are thoughtfully
written.
They discuss the concepts, whether the hypotheses were correct and any
problems
during the lab. (H. Chem only - An attempt is made to propagate error
through the calculations.)
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Calculations are correct
and detailed.
Graphs are titled and properly labeled. Conclusions are detailed. They
discuss
the concepts, whether the hypotheses were correct, any problems during
the
lab and how the problems affected the data. Trends or patterns
are
recognized and discussed. (H. Chem only - Error is correctly propagated
through the calculations.)
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