PLANNING AND DESIGN LABS MUST BE WRITTEN IN THE FUTURE TENSE The general format for P/D SBAs

in Biology are as follows: Title- what the experiment is about or linked to Observation- written here as gi!en by your tea"her or in some "ases what you are asked to "ome up with gi!en the hypothesis Hy ot!esis- must be "learly stated# based on the obser!ation# and stated so that it "an be tested A arat"s- must in"lude all ne"essary and appropriate materials to be used

Met!o#- pro"edures to be followed# a suitable "ontrol must be stated All pro"edures must be written "learly and logi"ally so that the experiment "an a"tually be "arried out by someone reading it E$ e%te# Res"lts- must be "learly stated $ften times this is the stru"ture/outline of a table or graph that you would use if you "arried out the experiment $ther times it is a short paragraph des"ribing what you would expe"t the results to be In&eren%es- these are three or four senten"es listed as numbered points indi"ating whether you would support or re%e"t the hypothesis and why Li'itations- any short"omings of the design whi"h may be"ome sour"es of errors MAR(ING S)HEME* &ormat suitable 'ypothesis appropriate 'ypothesis testable (aterials fully listed and appropriate (ethods test hypothesis (ethods "learly stated (ethods pra"ti"al (ethods des"ribe "ontrol !ariable Table/)raph/Paragraph to re"ord results *nferen"es and +imitations stated Total+ ,- 'ar.s