Thinking+and+Communicating+with+Clarity+and+Precision

The pictures above show my note taking and data recording during group lab activities during class.

When doin group lab activities in class I like to take detailed and clear notes that other people myself, and other people can understand without problems. Communicating with precision and clarity is very important, especially when doing labs or experiments as a group. The group must work as a whole rather than as separate parts, and the only way the group can work to it's maximum capacity in unity is for there to be clear communcation between group members. By creating notes that clarify and help other group members and myself work through an experiment or lab, I feel that i'm contributing to the overall balance and communication between team members.

The first picture shows a list of "recipes" for different chemical reaction that our group was supposed to record the temperature of. However, we were not given the exact amount of ingredients that we were suppose to add. Instead, we were given the numbers of moles. From there, we had to follow a series of calculations of dilutions to obtain the correct mol numbers and then measure out the correct amount of each solution to add in the chemical reaction. Each under lined phrase on the sheet represents a separate little "recipe" for how to make the correct amount of solution with the correct dilution. Then the numbers on the left side of the paper that separate different pairs of "recipes" designate different chemical reactions.

I made it my job to calculate the dilutions and amount of substances that needed to be added to the chemical reactions, and by keeping such tidy, and clear notes, I was able to communicate clearly to my group how I got the answers, and what we needed to do to perform the correct chemical reaction.