Yesterdays posting dealt with the use of spreadsheets in IA to draw graphs. I provided you with a link to a document that you could use to teach students how to draw ‘good’ graphs. If you remember, this could also be linked in with the second ICT aim in IA, ie, the use of software fro graph plotting.
Today’s posting is really an extension of this.
How many times have you asked students to write up a lab report that needs a graph to be drawn and ended up marking one of those poorly drawn excel graphs?
You know the ones I mean, the graphs with no grid lines on the x axis and that silly comment box ‘series 1′! We have all been there I am sure.
There are a number of good ICT exercises to be found on the OCC.
However, the following exercise has recently been brought to my attention and I think it is particularly good.
So, as a new teacher to IB you are slowly getting your head around teaching topic 1, plus you have started dipping into internal assessment.
There are in fact a number of earlier postings in this blog relating to marking students lab work using the IA criteria – just search for IA or Design or DCP, etc.
So, you have taught your classes everything they need to know about moles and molarities.
You have run over the IA criteria with them and have talked in depth about data presentation and errors. What next?
So, you, are a new teacher and need to teach IB for the first time.
What do you teach first? For many teachers (probably all teachers) you will beginning with one of three topics….
Selecting ethnography is one of the greatest joys and greatest challenges for those of us teaching introductory anthropology. Of course, just when we think we have it mastered, a new genre enters the scene.
One of the strengths of the IB anthropology course is that it gives both SL and HL students an opportunity to experience hands-on research. For SL students, this comes in the form of an observation and critique assignment and, for HL, a fuller fieldwork project. In both cases, taking field notes is core to the assignment.
Students of group 3 subjects like IB Psychology are encouraged to make connections to Theory of Knowledge during the course of their study. As the IB Course points out:
Archival evidence, data collection, experimentation and observation, and inductive and deductive reasoning can all be used to help explain patterns of behaviour and lead to knowledge claims.
The OCC website is a valuable resource which I believe to be overlooked by the busy teacher. However I am here to share a recent experience and to say that if you have not looked or used it recently, its good and you should.
Its Grade 11 internal assessment season at my school as I finish marking the students first full design lab on Enzymes and busy myself prepping them for their second on Plant Science before the end of the year. Following a discussion with a colleague on what constitutes minimal data for Design aspect 3 I took my query to the OCC.
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