Students may grow in their writing and organization skills as you and they try new approaches. Encourage students to write questions about process or outcomes of explorations. Discuss how to develop and identify good questions. Use discussion time to share the questions and decide if some of their questions should be explored together further. Students may want to investigate some of their questions independently.
Students can add graphs or data charts as they collect data.
As an interdisiplinary correlation, suggest the lab report be written as a letter. Students may enjoy writing a dream report. In their dream, how would they solve a problem. Bring in examples. A group or independent interdisciplinary project may take the form of a lab report in the form of a newspaper or magazine article written to the layman.