INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

IA template 

IA checklist 

ESS IDEAS

Equipment available (NEEDS UPDATING TO UWCSEA)

IB animal policy- It is important to read this if you are collecting primary data!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i056IitYqrIVOaXJT9lDpitp5wEIFJfr/view?usp=sharing  

Referencing

It is important to reference your work correctly. Please see the following for guidance on how to reference in the APA format.

This is all information on what, why and how to cite from the IB- https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=g_0_malpr_sup_1408_2b_e&part=1&chapter=1 

APA- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p2wHncBLR2tUF34kAn6qc1XEUe96trM4 }

How to Add a Caption to an Image in a Google Doc: https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg/dover-primary-ict/resources/addacaptiontoanimageinagoogledoc 

Past IA’s completed with annotated exemplars of past student work: 

Student examples of primary, secondary data and surveys. Plus level 7 IA's 

Examples from the IB (one example has been adapted from our student in Switzerland!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TqD78KE0ARsz22uVwlN4SsRG2uhgYJsH/view?usp=drive_link 

Other IB examples (links on page 7 onwards) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XXjIfLCVbgTECAMUd3pigl0w2fE_kbQw 

Statistics folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YlX2p2lKkXIuO4X7qR-1tPvdNQoJyM2S?usp=drive_link 

Useful websites to find reliable information:

JSTOR

https://about.jstor.org/

(Subscription sites provided through LAUSD libraries)

https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/15747

Destiny Catalogue

https://www.gofollett.com/aasp/ui/pick/pick

eLibrary

https://www.proquest.com/products-services/elibrary.html

Encylopedia britannica

https://school.eb.com/

Ecowatch

https://www.ecowatch.com/

InThinking 

https://www.thinkib.net/ess/page/18074/independent-investigation 

Useful secondary data sources

• For agricultural things, e.g yields of different plants, FAO stats: http://www.fao.org/statistics/vn/

• Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/

• World Bank data: https://data.worldbank.org/

• CIA Factbook country profiles: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/rankorderguide.html 

• FAO - AQUASTAT: Water use: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/data/query/index.html?lang=en

• Global Waste Production: http://www.atlas.d-waste.com/

• Canada’s Open Government: http://open.canada.ca/en

• Encyclopedia of Life: http://eol.org/

• European statistics: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/

• Copernicus Land monitoring services in Europe

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home

• FAO (soils): http://www.fao.org/.../harmonized-world-soil-database.../en/

• Gapminder (population dynamics): https://www.gapminder.org/

• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea http://www.ices.dk/.../dataset.../Pages/default.aspx

• Oman Oceans Data: https://mazu.nceas.ucsb.edu/data/ 

• Japan’s DATA GO: http://www.data.go.jp/?lang=english

• Statistics Japan: http://www.stat.go.jp/english/

• UN data: http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx?d=CLINO

• NASA’s Data Portal: https://data.nasa.gov/

• NOAA’s NCEI: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

• NOAA’s NCEI (climate): https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets

• Global Monitoring Laboratory - Earth Systems Research

• United States Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/data.html

• The U.S. government’s open data: https://www.data.gov/

• US Health Data: https://www.healthdata.gov/search/type/dataset

• UIC’s University Library: https://researchguides.uic.edu/

• United Nations: http://www.un.org/en/databases/index.html

• UN data: http://data.un.org/

• OECD: https://data.oecd.org/ 

• Open Data Network: https://www.opendatanetwork.com/

• World Bank Open Data: https://data.worldbank.org/

• World Health Organisation: http://www.who.int/en/

Creating a survey

If you are making a survey, you must look at websites on how to write a survey, not just make your own. Take a look at some of the below links; 

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/references/how-to-design-a-survey

https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Survey

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/survwrit.php

For this last link, do not click on the “Visit the site” link – it’s an advertisement

Click on the “next page” link in the upper right corner

Metric system

You must use the metric system when measuring in your IA e.g. measuring distance in metres (m)

Final tip! 

Use Seek by iNaturalist to identify organisms on your phones- https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app