ATL in Biology
The Cerebral cortex
This is an activity containing five short tasks which cover the important points about the cerebral cortex, its structure and function, the specific functions of those named areas named in the IB guide...
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Neural development - Planning sheet A.1
Planning sheet for A.1 Neural development Understandings: Essential Question(s) TOK / Nature of Science / IM Skills students will have Time: 1hr Students get an insight into the complexity of the differentiation...
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Planting an olympic forest in Rio 2016 Free
. During the opening ceremony the Olympic rings turned a lush green. This was to symbolise the fact that 11,000 parading athletes were each given a tree seedling. Organisers have pledged that every tree...
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Liver structure IB style qns - model answers
Role of bile in digestion Role of bile in excretion (3 marks) Hepatocytes synthesise bile and plasma proteins and also help in homeostasis of blood glucose. Microvilli increase the surface area to help...
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Discovering linkage - Model Answers.
Table 1: Phenotypes of the F2 Generation (Bateson et al 1905 p92) Phenotype Mendel’s Ratio Expected Observed (O-E)2/E Show working out here … Coloured, long 9 153 116 -362/153 = 8.47 Coloured, round...
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Awe & wonder versus pragmatism in IB Biology Free
A recent question by a subscriber, Asli, started me thinking about the content of the IB Biology course we teach. I sometimes discuss with colleagues which topics are most important for our younger students...
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How to annotate investigations for the moderator Free
Once students have finished their Individual Investigation that's it! They won't complete another assessed experiment during their IB and this makes me consider the way I annotate the investigations while...
ATL in Biology
Villus structure model answers.
These answers refer to the questions and diagrams on the slides of this Short presentation of villus structure How is a villus structure related to its role in absorption and transport of the products...
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Topic 8 - Metabolism HL revision list
This pages gives outline details of the content of the topic together with essential questions and student skills and applications. Helpful for revision. Metabolic pathways Essential Questions Competitive...
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Cardiology Role play
Socratic seminars are frequently used by history teachers to incorporate peer review into a lesson and to encourage the right sort of participation in a discussion. In this lesson the same structure is...