Conclusion/Discussion
This section summarizes your purpose, explains the reasoning of your procedure and provides a scientific explanation of your results. It requires thinking critically about the findings and examining the relationship of the results to other experiments. Parts of the conclusion repeat other elements of your report. This is OK. A reader should be able to understand the entire experiment by reading only the conclusion.
- Make a claim about the overall pattern or trend that answers the purpose of the lab.
- Support the claim using appropriate vocabulary to demonstrate your understanding of the principles demonstrated in the lab
- Include relevant background information to further support your claim.
- Describe sources of error that may have affected your results.
- Provide possible extensions to your experimental design that could lend greater support to your claim or extend the application of the principles demonstrated.
