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IB Approved Workshops
Biology
IB DP Category 1
Barcelona, Spain, 29 - 31 August 2025
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Environmental systems and societies: A focus on internal assessment
IB DP Category 3
Berlin, Germany, 3 - 5 October 2025
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Biology: A focus on the experimental programme
IB DP Category 3
Paris, France, 7 - 9 November 2025
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Virtual Think-Ins
Teaching Statistics & Data Skills in DP Biology & ESS
Virtual Think-In, 15 August 2025
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DP Biology assessment
Virtual Think-In, 2 September 2025
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The Scientific Investigation in DP Biology
Virtual Think-In, 4 September 2025
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Blog
Grade boundaries for the new IA
Since the publication of this summer's IB results this week we now know the grade boundaries for the new style IAs. They are surprisingly exactly the same as the boundaries we have used for the last seven...
Final revision in the northern hemisphere
Students in the northern hemisphere will be busy revising this weekend. As part of revision is it useful to practice writing answers. We have put together a selection of ‘written tasks’ to help students...
YouTube Biology homework?
I used to ask students to read about Biology outside the classroom, and I've even subscribed to magazines and loaned them to students to encourage this reading. In today's world students are much more...
Navigation updates
Dear Colleagues, With spring around the corner and the last exams of the 2016 syllabus behind us, is time to reogranise the navigation InThinking Biology site making the new resources more easily accessible...
InThinking Biology Mock Exam papers
There is a shortage of examination resources at the moment for classes taking the exams in Biology 2025. The specimen papers are easily found by students on the web, so we need some original questions...
August Update 2024
We strive to help you and your students to succeed. We already have over 150 Lesson activity pages designed specifically for the DP Biology course and there are written tests and sets of model answers...
Acetabularia in the news links DP Biology topics
It's always good when Biology makes the news but it's rare that the news matches the DP Biology curriculum so closely as it did today in this article from The Guardian. I've recently been thinking of...
Teacher reflections using exam papers
Looking through this summer's M'22 exam papers I wonder if my student's missed anything during their course. In IB speak you could call this teacher 'reflection time'. Of course there are always some...
Inquiry in Biology teaching
As teachers we shouldn't tell students about Biology so much. If we encourage students to be observant, allow them opportunities to make their own discoveries we might just kindle a life-long interest...
Results Day - 6th July in the Northern Hemisphere
Results Day is around the corner on 6th July for schools in the Northern Hemisphere. The IB has published a series of information pages about the moderation and marking process, explaining how they endeavoured...