Lab Reporting
This section of a lab report tells what the experimenter wants to find out.
What is the Aim?
This organ allows you to see.
What is the Eye?
The outer layer of the skin that provides protection.
What is the Epidermis?
The first bone in the chain of three tiny bones in the ear.
What is the Hammer (malleus)?
The colored part of the eye that controls the size of the pupil.
What is the Iris?
“Use a pair of forceps to gently remove the insect from the glass jar” is part of this section.
What is the Method?
This sense organ helps you hear sounds.
What is the Ear?
The layer under the epidermis that contains blood vessels and nerves.
What is the Dermis?
This part collects sound waves from the environment.
What is the Pinna?
The transparent front part of the eye that focuses light.
What is the Cornea?
A student observed that a plant grown in sunlight grew taller than one in the shade. They wrote: “Some leaves turned yellow, but overall the sunlight plant grew faster than the shade plant. Possible errors include uneven watering.” Which part of the lab report is this?
What is the Discussion?
You accidentally touch a hot stove and quickly pull your hand back. Which sense organ helped you react?
What is the Skin?
This pigment protects the skin from UV rays.
What is Melanin?
Sound travels through the ear in this order: ear canal → ear drum → hammer → anvil → stirrup → _______.
What is the Oval window / Cochlea?
Light passes through this clear structure after the cornea to focus on the retina.
What is the Lens?
State an aim for this hypothesis: “If a seed is watered with salt water, then it will grow less than a seed with fresh water because salt can harm plant cells.”
To determine how salt water affects seed growth.
You smell smoke in the kitchen and move away quickly. Which sense organ alerted you to danger?
What is the Nose?
Scenario: A student forgot to apply sunscreen and spent 3 hours in the sun. Which skin pigment helps protect them?
What is Melanin?
Scenario: You spin in a circle and then stop suddenly. You feel dizzy. Which structures in your inner ear help maintain balance?
What are the Semicircular canals?
This defect makes you see near objects clearly, but far objects blurry.
What is Myopia (short-sightedness)?
Scenario: A student wants to test if the type of liquid affects plant growth. They plan to use water, soda, and milk. Write a proper hypothesis using “If…then…because.”
If plants are watered with soda, then they will grow less than plants watered with water because sugar and chemicals in soda can harm plants.
A friend tastes a very sour lemon and makes a face. Which sense organ is responsible and what does it detect?
What is the Tongue, detecting taste.
Suggest two ways to take care of your skin to prevent damage.
What is moisturize, bathe, protect from sun, avoid harsh chemicals (any two)?
Permanent hearing loss can be caused by these factors.
What are loud noise, infections, aging, or injury?
Name a treatment for hyperopia (farsightedness).
What is Convex lenses / Eyeglasses / Contact lenses?