IA Project Cover Sheet

IA Rubric (condensed)

IA Rubric (complete)

All about the IA Project - Topic selection, Experimental design, Data analysis, paper writing, presentation preparation

Errors and Uncertainty for the IA

300 IA Ideas

The Science IA: Earning Full Marks

The Nature of Science Textbook Appendix

Nature of Science Powerpoint

Agenda Oct 1 - Planning for 3.2 Required Lab - Mini IA project (Experimental goals given, practice for IA procedure development, data collection and analysis)

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZprLK1SIcg&t=1s Video that outlines the process of experimental Design, Data Collection, and Data Processing

Agenda Oct 2 - Trial runs for 3.2 Required Lab

Agenda Oct 3 - Lab day 2, Altered D schedule for homecoming

Agenda Oct 8 - Lab day 3

Agenda Oct 10 - Data analysis and results day

Agenda Oct 15 - Mini IA due

Agenda Jan 22 - IA Data Presentations

8 Required IB Practicals:

2.1 Determining the acceleration of free-fall experimentally (Completed year 1 Acceleration on an incline)

3.1 Applying the calorimetric techniques of specific heat or specific latent heat experimentally (Completed year 1 Calorimetry for specific heat and latent heat )

3.2 Investigating at least one gas law experimentally (done as a mock IA project in pairs for practice) 

IB 3.2 Lab Agenda Sep 11 - Methods exploration IB 3.2 Lab Agenda Sept 13  - Expt Design and collect data (day 1)  IB 3.2 Lab Agenda Sept 18 - Collect data (day 2) and IA paper info    IB 3.s Lab Agenda Sept 20 - data analysis and writing 

4.2 Investigating the speed of sound experimentally (Speed of Sound Lab  IB 4.2 Lab Agenda Oct 23)

4.4 Determining refractive index experimentally (Index of Refraction Lab  IB 4.4 Lab Agenda Oct 16)

5.2 Investigating one or more of the factors that affect resistance experimentally (IB 5.2 R Factors Lab  IB 5.2 Agenda Jan 15)       

5.3 Determining internal resistance experimentally (IB 5.3 Internal r Lab  IB 5.3 Agenda Jan 17)

7.1 Investigating half-life experimentally (or by simulation) (Investigating half- life activities IB 7.1 Lab Agenda Mar 13)