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This InThinking website is designed exclusively for IB Biology teachers and their students. The primary goal of these pages is to support you so that you can navigate the course with confidence. 

This website contains loads of ideas related to teaching and learning of IB DP  Biology within the new guide.  There are pages of information about the structure of the IB Biology course and its assessment. Introductions to the ideas about the Nature of Science and suggestions of ways to incorporate ToK in lessons and the IB Learner Profile.

A large section of the site is devoted to lesson ideas and learning activities. Interactive resources online are linked to student worksheets in structured lesson plans which are tailored specifically for the IB Biology course. Planning pages show how the learning activities link to the understandings, skills and applications in the IB guide. They are written to both the teacher and the student with the intention that they guide learning. Instructions for students are clearly displayed next to the online resources or worksheets. Teachers can spend their time helping students to complete tasks as "a guide by the side" and in some activities students can work directly from the lesson plan on their own.

To cater for everyone's situation almost all learning activities have printable pdf files and in fact any page can be printed neatly using the print icon at the top of each page.

Some pages refer to resources which might inspire a Biology teacher in designing alternative lessons and these resources could also inspire independent inquiry for DP students.