IB Bio

CORE TOPICS

Topic 1: Cell Biology

Topic 2: Molecular Biology

Topic 3: Genetics

Topic 4: Ecology

Topic 5: Evolution & Biodiversity

Topic 6: Human Physiology

  1. Prachi | December 6, 2008 at 9:01 am

    awesome material!! really helpful!
    thanks

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  2. Stephen | May 9, 2009 at 10:14 am

    Website record: 766 page views on Wednesday 6th May 2009 – right before Biology paper 3. Most people were looking for materials on Option H: Further Human Physiology. Rock on.

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  3. Michelle | October 16, 2009 at 1:37 am

    Hi Stephen,
    Could you please email me when you get a moment–I’m an IB Biology-HL teacher in the US and would like to ask you about some of the amazing resources you have on your site!
    Thanks,
    Michelle

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  4. Joe Boronczyk | October 28, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    Im a teacher in the us and your site is excellent. However im have problems h your presentations. They work at home but not at school? Any ideas?

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    • Stephen | October 29, 2009 at 12:46 am

      Hi Joe,

      Thanks for the comment!

      Sounds like the school has blocked SlideShare or this site. Your best bet is to go to My SlideShare page when you’re at home and download the presentations, then bring them to school. Some come through as better quality than others.

      Good luck!

      Steve

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  5. Madhulika | October 29, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Dear Steve,

    You have an excellent web-site. I wish I had found it earlier. Thank you so much for sharing with all your excellent presentations.

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  6. Wahida Mostafa | November 8, 2009 at 2:47 am

    Do you by any chance have resources/ or teach Option D Evolution?

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  7. Jennifer Sandercock | November 19, 2009 at 4:43 am

    Hi Stephen,
    Love your work. As a fellow IB Bio teacher I admire what you do and aspire to have a range of resoruces as well developed as yours. Your students are very lucky. I have been keeping an eye out on BIS with the hope a position may become available one of these years.
    Cheers to you & a BIG THANKYOU for be willing to share with others all the great work you do.

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  8. Jeremy | December 4, 2009 at 2:09 am

    Hello Stephen,
    This is one of the most amazing websites I’ve ever found. Thank you for sharing your hard work. I’ve been trying to compile the same thing and use it for self taught lessons. That way the higher level kids can move through at their own pace and I can focus on the lower level learners and have more one on one instruction.
    I know that you can download your presentations and use them in acrobat. Is there any way you’d be willing to send or host some of the original presentations so that I can edit them for my own use. I completely understand if you do not want to.
    Thanks,
    Jeremy

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    • Stephen | December 4, 2009 at 9:13 am

      Hi Jeremy,

      Thanks for the comment. I can’t upload the originals because they’re in SMART Notebook software and are huge files with the animations embedded – also the animations are probably copyrighted . If you read the ‘Saving Videos and Resources’ article above right, it tells you how to save many of the resources featured in the presentations, so that you don’t have to keep burning up bandwidth.

      Good luck!

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  9. Jeff J | December 8, 2009 at 7:23 am

    Thank you so much, Stephen, for this website and the resources you’ve posted on Slideshare. This is my first year teaching biology abroad (in Bulgaria) and first year teaching IB (I have taught biology before, but a quite different curriculum with a different set of resources). I have been using your resources quite a bit.
    Question: you have so much in your powerpoints (that you post) that they seem very “stand-alone. ” Do you still spend significant time in class presenting these? If not, how do you incorporate these slideshows (homework only?) and what do you spend most of your class time doing?
    Thanks again!

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    • Stephen | December 8, 2009 at 9:43 am

      Hi Jeff – thanks for the comment and glad to be of help.

      I give students the Essential Biology documents for each topic and expect that they read ahead and complete them, using the presentations. Some take to this very well, others need more pushing – so I’ve just introduced a rubric for this note-taking.

      It is my aim, year-on-year, that with all the content in place and being edited and improved, that we can move into a more student-centred method of learning.

      Sometimes, we skim the presentation first as an introduction, then students have the rest of the period to work on their notes, with their laptops. There are way too many resources in the presentations (animations, videos and interactives) to go through each one slide-by-slide in class, but they serve as interactive textbooks (my students only own the Allott study guide – though we have a collection of other texts in the lab and library). If we get stuck, then we can come back together and explain it.

      I try to do as many practical, current affairs or case-study type activities as possible – though some topics are more academic than others and need more traditional teaching time.

      There is so much about Biology that is (and should be) fun that whatever I can do to make everyone’s lives easier and allow more time to get into the subject is worth it.

      Good luck!

      Steve

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  10. Britta Fardig Bergstrom | February 26, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    Hi Stephen,
    I will repeat my thanks to you for letting me/us view and use your excellent web site. It is reallly great!
    I just have a comment on your IBDP Handbook 2009-2010. It states in the more detailed part about passing conditions that the diploma only is rewarded if at least a D is rewarded in EE or TOK. So obviosly two E will be failing condition. Am I right?

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  11. Charlotte Kirby | March 1, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    Hi Stephen,
    My HOD, Aileen, has been in touch with you, mainly about IA but I wanted to add my thanks for the fantastic presentations. I’m currently revising with our HL classes and it gives me some fresh material to help them see it again!
    Yours,
    Charlotte

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  12. lizwhiz1 | October 14, 2010 at 10:31 pm

    I am gobsmacked by the amount of excellent resources… do you have a life?

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  13. Jenne Nurse | April 28, 2011 at 6:43 am

    Hello,

    I am an IB student working on my Extended Essay proposal. My teacher/supervisor is not offering me any help at all and Im become very stressed. She keeps telling me to contact a professor at a nearby university, but after reaching out to over ten, I still have recieved no reply. I think I have a good idea, but she hasn’t given me any feedback. This is it: Investigating the genetic variability of the enzyme maltate dehydrogenase in (a specific type) mussels. I don’t really have that much knowledge in this are, but the EE is all about learning. I can you offer me any help???

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    • Stephen | May 25, 2011 at 8:49 am

      Hi Jennie,

      Your best bet is to ask for copies of the EE examiners’ reports – teachers can get these from a website called the OCC. There is loads of help in those.

      Good luck!

      Stephen

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  14. Annie | May 3, 2011 at 10:12 am

    EEP. This is saving my butt! Thanks so much for putting this up here, it’s so helpful. 😀

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  15. Miss Smith | May 25, 2011 at 3:19 am

    Thank you for this wonderful site! We are a new school, and your expertise has been invaluable! I don’t know what we’d do without the guidance, ideas, and examples you provide…
    Will the DP site still be available after you switch to teaching the MYP? I hope so! Thanks again… we’ll make a year-end contribution to support your work!

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    • Stephen | May 25, 2011 at 8:47 am

      Hi Miss Smith,

      Don’t worry – I’ll still be teaching IB Biology and will keep it running. Some sections might not get updated so frequently, but more new stuff should be added.

      Thanks for the comment!

      Stephen

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  16. Joseph | December 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    Hi Stephen, I find this website very useful.
    However, some files, e.g. youtube material, etc., may have been deleted due to account closure or file has been deleted.
    Can you please look into that?
    THanks,
    Joseph

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    • Stephen | December 2, 2011 at 10:45 pm

      Hi Joseph,

      Thanks for the comment. As is the nature of the internet it can be difficult to keep up with YouTube content from other people and other resources which have their links changed or are deleted. If you spot any specific issues please let me know.

      Stephen

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  17. Vivienne Owens | October 9, 2012 at 1:09 am

    Dear Stephen,

    Hi. First can I thank you for sharing your hard work in this wonderful site. It has been a life-line to me and a joy to see resources done so well.

    I am new to teaching DP and MYP Biology and have landed in the deep end somewhat. I am currently writing unit plans for MYP 5 Biology and I wondered if by chance you know of a good MYP Bio practitioner that may have time to offer some advice.

    Many thanks,

    Viv

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    • Stephen | October 9, 2012 at 10:21 am

      Hi Vivienne,

      Thanks for the commment – glad the resources are of help. My best advice would be to post your questions and ideas on the OCC MYP Sciences area. Many minds make light work!

      Good luck,

      Stephen

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      • Vivienne Owens | October 9, 2012 at 3:45 pm

        Thanks Stephen,

        I did this already but didn’t receive any responses yet…hopefully will get some soon!

        Thanks for your response though.

        Viv

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  18. Debra Philip | April 4, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    Hi Stephen,
    Thank you so much for all of your resources, I am a very new teacher from Australia working in new international school in the Czech republic and have stepped into a disaster of sorts and your site has helped immensely. When I tried to use the site and powerpoints this morning however they are all saying sorry we cannot find what you are looking for….please tell me the site is just under some updates and not being deleted.
    Thanks,
    Deb

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    • Stephen | April 4, 2013 at 8:37 pm

      Hi Deb,

      Thanks for the comment – there is nothing under renovation at the moment, although there might have been some SLideShare issues. They all appear to be working here. If you still can’t see them, try again later or clear the cache of your browser and try again.

      Good luck!

      Stephen

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  19. christopher | July 23, 2013 at 2:48 am

    Hi, Could you email me IBDP biology notes and some tips for EE and other requirement on my email. I am a new teacher in IBDP.

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  20. Siddharth | December 31, 2013 at 12:15 am

    This website is indeed the best website for IB biology. Thanks a lot for making such awesome notes

    Regards,
    Sid.

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  21. Susan Giguere | February 1, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    Stephen,
    This is my first year to teach IB biology. Your website has saved me on many occasions. Thank you so very, very much for being willing to share your resources!
    Susan

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  22. Orn | April 2, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    Thanks a lot for the wonderful resources. I have made the donation. Would you please share you pptx files?

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  23. Aa | April 16, 2014 at 4:52 am

    Hello,

    Love your work. Do you use PowerPoint to make your presentations or another software? Thanks for any info!

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  24. Elza Eldo | June 27, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    excellent ; a real help for students

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  25. Krista Bayliss | July 17, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    Hi Stephen,
    I’ve just discovered your blog. What an amazing resource!
    Thanks so much for sharing such a broad range of great resources.
    K

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  26. Annie | September 22, 2014 at 4:39 am

    Hi Stephen,
    On behalf of my IB Bio HL class we are all grateful for your site. You have made it possible for us to learn the content of biology and pass our many tests and exams. We want you to know you have taught us so much and we want to thank you for every slide you made. I would like to personally say that you have taught me biology and I want to thank you.

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  27. Silje | January 12, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    I made a Memrise course to remember the command terms by heart. Memrise makes you rewrite the ones you often forget, and it’s fun to move forwards in the levels as you realize that the definitions are becoming long term memories. Here’s the link: http://www.memrise.com/course/517020/ib-biology-command-terms-2/

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  28. Ester | August 16, 2017 at 11:54 am

    This is awesome !! Thank you very much !

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