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Zygote body: a resource for human anatomy Free
This free web resource, an now an ipad app called Atlas is a wonderful 3D viewer of the body. It could really help students during the topic on human biology. Zygote body claims, "you can dissect anatomy...
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Can Foldit teach IB biologists about protein structure? Free
Foldit is an online game in which humans try to solve one of the hardest computational problems in biology: protein folding. That is building the tertiary structure of proteins. Surprisingly you don't...
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Biology Guide Pre-publication Free
The most reassuring thing is that there is no great change to the Biology content of the new guide. Lots of the sub-topic titles are familiar and there isn't any revolutionary change to the topics. There...
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IB graduates have a greater chance of university success Free
One of the highlights of teaching IB is to speak to students who return from university in the holidays. "How are you getting on?", is a question which always presents itself. Many students describe...
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Data logging dilemma Free
Some of the best data logging equipment you can buy comes from Vernier and the Labquest interface has been around for a while. What are the advantages of the new Labquest2 and its little partner the Labquest...
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Chasing creativity in Biology Lessons Free
After a recent workshop on differentiation, where we looked at nurturing creativity to enhance differentiation, an art teacher said to me, "It is important to remember that creativity is a set of behaviours....
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An embarrassment to biology education? Free
The latest advances in genetics have begun to unsettle the science behind many of the common examples of genetic inheritance biology teachers have been using for decades. Simple inheritance of characteristics...
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Using Blooms Taxonomy to Sequence IB Biology work Free
To help students practise expressing their ideas in increasingly complex ways it may be useful to consider using the IB command terms in the same sort of structure as Blooms taxonomy. Looking at these...
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When students work hard and yet still score low marks in IB Biology Exams. Free
I have been troubled for a number of years about those students who write a lot of correct Biology in their exams but only achieve low marks. As an IB examiner I find myself scratching around trying to...
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TOK Postcard - Cell Theory
This is a problem of Perception. There is an interesting paradox here because measuring instruments have helped to extend human powers of perception enourmously in Biology. The problem is that if we...