The Group 4 Project is an interdisciplinary project for IB students taking Group 4 sciences, which are usually Biology, Chemistry and/or Physics. The goal of the project is to develop a broad and practical understanding of science, and to provide a personal interaction mark for your Internal Assessment in Group 4 classes. For many IB [...Read more...]
For other articles on the Extended Essay on Intense Cogitation, please see our helpful articles on The Extended Essay Outline and Sample sources for an Extended Essay – The American Civil War. Please also check out my extended essay exemplar about the American Civil War. The 50 Excellent Extended Essays collection is, as the name [...Read more...]

In our early days in IB English, we were encouraged to write practice essays in order to improve our own essay-writing skills. Our teacher gave us an excerpt from Jack and the Beanstalk, and we had to devise individual topics. I decided to choose the idea of Jack being rewarded as my central focus. As [...Read more...]
(Click for full size) Just saw this on Reddit. This is apparently how the United States looks like from a European perspective. As you can see, it attaches a popular stereotype to a certain group of states. For example, California’s large liberal population = hippies. Here are my attempted explanations for some of the labels: [...Read more...]
Hopefully these notes make sense to you. I was attempting to summarize the entire bonding chapter for Chemistry HL/SL. Chemical bond – interaction between atoms/ions that results in a reduction in the potential energy of the system, making it more stable Bond type (ionic, covalent, metallic) depends on electronegativities Very different EN – ionic (EN [...Read more...]
This is a copy of a sample French oral internal assessment presentation for French B SL. Image credit: BBC La conscription est une politique nationale dans laquelle les citoyens éligibles servent dans les forces armées de leur pays. Les citoyens éligibles pourraient choisir le service civil aussi. En 1905, le gouvernement de la France a [...Read more...]
Note: the comments here are written with passage commentaries (or oral commentaries, which are the same thing) in mind, but they could be applied to some degree to most other forms of writing done in English class. Click here for Part One of The Study of English Literature series. You can access the next section [...Read more...]