Home of real teaching & learning
  • Full support for teachers
  • Focus on critical thinking
  • Engaging classroom activities
  • Integrated student eBook
  • Assessed tasks / qBank
  • Practice exam questions

The InThinking Guarantee: Our sites are written by expert practitioners and not by AI

See our AI policy

Disclaimer: InThinking subject sites are neither endorsed by nor connected with the International Baccalaureate Organisation.

Don't miss out, find out!

Solar energy

(Image from Brightstar Eg) This sub-topic seems to have the wrong title! If you look at the ‘Understandings’ and Applications and skills’ you will see that they all refer to energy from biomass. It is of course true that the ultimate source of biomass energy is the sun, which provides the energy for photosynthesis to occur, but ‘Solar energy’ usually describes converting the energy directly from the sun into...

Help