General Resources
IA Starting Points - a comprehensive guide for students creating a lab report for DP Biology. It covers the entire process, from formulating a research question with specific criteria to the evaluation and presentation of findings.
Some example Research Questions
IA Checklist - a comprehensive checklist for IB Biology students preparing an internal assessment (IA). They detail criteria for different sections including research design, data analysis, conclusion, and evaluation.
IA example folder (Old Syllabus - but still relevant as good examples)
Determining Outliers - 1.5x IQR - Interquartile Range method
IA Review ChatGPT - A work in progress, but this will (badly) estimate your grade. It will provide you feedback which could be useful.
ChatGPT and Design - This video demonstrates how ChatGPT can assist in analyzing scientific studies and guiding the justification of independent, dependent, and control variables.
Rubrics for ChatGPT or similar AI's - This will allow to feed the rubric into the AI and then you can add your Internal Assessment and it will compare your's based on the rubric.
ImageJ - good for measuring things from pictures
Netlogo - for simulations
Practice IAs
Experiment - Pongola Lab
Experiment 7 - Transpiration Stations
Experiment 8 - Stomata Density