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Project pages on a whiteboard Free
Inthinking website content is often surrounded by the navigation menu and the title banner. Very useful when searching for a page but not great in a lesson. If you want to project Inthinking Biology content...
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Natural selection - planning 5.2
Planning sheet for 5.2 Natural selection Understanding(s) Variation & overproduction of offspring Essential Question(s) TOK / Nature of Science / IM Skills students will have Evolution examples Time:...
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Evidence for evolution - planning 5.1
Planning sheet for 5.1 Evidence for evolution Understanding(s) Evolution Introduction "Adaptive radiation" activity 1 in Evolution examples Essential Question(s) TOK / Nature of Science / IM Skills students...
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TOK When is Science no use?
This activity looks at the limits of the scientific method in different types of knowledge. Can Science help you to know if you are in love? How do doctors decide when a patient is dead? This is a true...
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Extended essay first drafts Free
September is the time when I begin reviewing first drafts of my student's extended essays. Over the summer holidays we encourage students to try to get ahead and use this quiet period to break the back...
ATL in Biology
Plant classification quiz
Try the following questions to see how good your knowledge of the plant phyla is....
ATL in Biology
Gene pool - model answers to video questions
While watching the video https://youtu.be/8yvEDqrc3XE answer the following questions. A group of actually or potentially interbreeding populations which are reproductively isolated from other groups _______________________...
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A very hungry caterpillar Free
Last week a student of mine began experimenting with some lettuce plants as part of an extended essay to evaluate their suitability for a space mission to Mars. We were astonished to see that students...
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Describing trends in IB graphs Free
Describing the data on a graph is a skill in Biology. Achieving the marks in an IB exam is more difficult that it looks. Students must do exactly what the question asks and give precise details in their...
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Cloning - student sheet model answers
Watch the two films and fill in your ratings in the table below. Give reasons for each of your ratings. Cloning Neanderthals ............... Reasons may include: .................. Industrial scale cloning...