Goodbye Option D: Evolution II

March 30, 2015

Continuing from my last post, please see below for: D3 Human evolution D4 The Hardy–Weinberg principle D5 Phlogeny and systematics   D3 Human evolution The section starts with a section on carbon dating. I have found this activity to be an excellent inquiry based...

Goodbye Option D: Evolution

February 24, 2015

When I first started teaching the Diploma, my Head of Science at the time, enthused about Option D – Evolution unit as THE biology unit that best embodies the philosophy of the IBO (and I believe him to be right),  encapsulating the notion of commonality of all,...

Resources for building your own mesocosm

January 3, 2015

As summarised in my previous blog, Practical 5 Setting up sealed mesocosms to try to establish sustainability Guidance: Mesocosms can be set up in open tanks, but sealed glass vessels are  preferable because entry and exit of matter can be prevented but light can...

Mandatory labs

There are seven mandatory labs that students are expected to complete, I refer to them as 6+1 as six fall within the Standard course and one within the Higher level course (its perfectly acceptable to include the HL lab within the PSOW of the SL course)....

Using Twitter

December 1, 2014

I have recently been encouraged to engage with twitter in a professional capacity to better support my teaching. The first thing I suggest you do is open a second account on twitter. To do so, follow the link instructions here. Then from there you can sign in and...

Subject report 2014 and the Prof Penguin Channel

October 27, 2014

As this is the final year for the old style syllabus I thought I would review some of the salient points from the 2014 subject report under Internal assessment. If you have never read a subject report I encourage you to check them out on the OCC forum.Its worth...