KCTCS Avoid PHY171

[cookderosa]

I have had lab report requirements all over the map. I think what your teacher is using is within the realm of normal. It says you are doing 4 labs, which I think is reasonable. (every of my 4 credit courses required 8 labs, no matter how long the class was) I had to include photos of most of my labs. I think it was my microbiology class that required photos of my slides through the eyepiece (yes, that meant buying a digital camera attachment). My A&P teachers both wanted step by step photos. I'd send in lab reports with 14-15 images embedded. In my chemistry class, my teacher docked me points because in the required 1st photo of every lab was to be a picture of you in front of the set-up, and in my pic I didn't have on safety glasses and she saw a Diet Coke can in the background! I actually did WEAR glasses, just hadn't started yet so didn't have them on- and as for the Diet Coke, that was true. We had signed a lab safety agreement (in every science class at Ocean County College) that allowed them to fail the lab for violating any of the numerous requirements. (not having poison control number displayed, having a pet or child in the photo, etc) I remember even having to have the MSDS sheets ON THE TABLE of a chemistry assignment and in the photo or zero points earned. In some experiments that was printing out 70+ pages.

All in all, I like labs, but if I had to do another one today, I'd pick virtual lab for my next experience just for a change of pace.

EDIT: I have to say also, that the one problem I have with labs is that they add SO -MUCH- WORK to a class. 1 credit lab is WAY more work than the 3 credit theory component.