ATL in Biology
Onion cell plasmolysis experiment
This experiment is a good introduction to data processing and illustrates skills needed for success in data analysis questions in IB exams. Students use techniques learned earlier in the topic to prepare...
ATL in Biology
Lab technician prep sheet
This experiment is a good introduction to data processing and illustrates skills needed for success in data analysis questions in IB exams. Students use techniques learned earlier in the topic to prepare...
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How simple could an IA research question be? Free
In a recent discussion about IA investigations I found myself defending the idea that we should encourage students to do an investigation which is suitably complex for IB Biology. The key question is,...
ATL in Biology
Measuring Equipment - IA skills training
This series of short experiments illustrates the skills a student needs to achieve high grades in data processing and the analysis of uncertainties in the IA investigation. These are important new skills...
ATL in Biology
Cancer - cell cycle model answers
This Cancer and cell cycle model answers worksheet shows one way to draw the diagrams on cancer and the cell cycle. There are many possibilities....
ATL in Biology
Data analysis & polyploidy model answers
In an experiment to look at mechanisms of polyploidy in 2002 Andrzej JOACHIMIAK and Tomaz ILNICKI measured the amount of nuclear DNA and the chromosome number of cells in tissue cultures of the species...
ATL in Biology
Muscle structure - model answers
There are model answers on the following document. Muscle structure model answers...
ATL in Biology
Gene pools - Planning sheet 10.3
Planning sheet for gene pools and speciation Understanding(s) Gene pools Essential Question(s) TOK / Nature of Science / IM Polyploidy short Skills students will have Time: 1hr After consideration of...
ATL in Biology
HL Genetics Activities for Learning Free
The ideas for learning activities on this page aim to cover the whole of the IB guide for this topic. Where a full lesson plan has been developed it includes resources to use on an interactive whiteboard...
ATL in Biology
Respiration experiments.
Two nice experiments, the first looks a respiration rates in fly larvae and the second links the structures of different carbohydrates to the rate of respiration in yeast. This is an opportunity to discuss...