Billions of kilograms of cyclohexanone are produced each year for the manufacture of nylon 1. The synthesis of cyclohexanone is simple. First, sodium hypochlorite and acetic acid react to form hypochlorous acid. Second, hypochlorous acid is added to cyclohexanol to synthesize cyclohexanone via the Chapman–Stevens oxidation reaction. A scaffold was created for explicit instruction in writing laboratory reports. Scaffolding divides the lab report into sections and teaches students to ask and answer questions to generate section-appropriate content and language. The implementation of the scaffolding is done through a series of worksheets specific to each section,