Sure, but remember to keep it quantitative. See what they did and apply it to develop your Research Question (use a different chemical/change temperature instead of pH, whatever works). Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. One of these is a good graph and contains all the elements that you need. Oh I haven’t thought about different fat percentages, that does sound interesting, thank you very much!!! These two, are, however extremely useful tools for your IB life, and I still encourage you to use them! In your IA, you want to measure how changing X changes Y. That’s pretty much all there is to it. Background information and finalizing topic: This is what differentiates an IA from an Extended Essay. Hi when you mentioned your Bio IA, that sounded pretty interesting, would you mind sharing the topic/question? While I did say in my blog that the best way to go is to do an experiment, the past year has obviously put many very different constraints on the IA and for a lot of people an experiment is simply not possible to do. I tried using Google Sheets and it just doesn’t work like it should. ( Log Out /  please suggest any good idea. Natural Disease Resistance in Plants 6. These usually involve things like: volume, concentration of …, Pressure, Room temperature, Resistance of wires (electrolysis), Pressure, Reaction time, Stirring time, … In short, think about the things that you could have changed but you didn’t. A narrow area guarantees that the topic you cover will be elaborated fully. Pick whichever you are most comfortable with! Okay, if you’re at a point where you feel like there isn’t enough time to do an experiment, you might go the database route. A good list of reagents would look something like this: This is a step-by step description of what you did (or are going to do). I did my experiment on the relationship between fatigue and reaction rate. Think outside the box, you can do an IA on literally anything! Change ). Thanks man! What kind of things interest you? Immunity and Stress 10. Once you decide on a general topic … Do the following few steps so that nobody could ever swipe left on your beautiful beautiful graph! Unfortunately, most of you probably don’t, but that’s ok. In this post, we give you 50 IB Biology IA Ideas to help you speed up your research process. I’m guessing that in most IA-s you can talk about how. Hi all! Science in Context: This database contains news, magazine, reference and web articles organized around various science topics.. World Book: This database is an online encyclopedia.. Britannica: This database is an online encyclopedia. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The first step of this task is to select an interesting narrow topic to discuss. That really helps me get started. The topic was :”The Effect of Phosphate Anion Concentration on Calcium Ion Concentration in Milk” but now im switching to a database IA. This is the beauty of chemistry – at the end of the day, it is all around you, you just need to go and find it. To have more data points, consider adding some other starchy veggies that can be considered as dietary alternatives..butternut squash and parsnip come to mind. External assessments are the exams that you can choose to take in May. That does sound like an interesting topic… just think of factors that might play a role in how much energy is released… particle size of the nuts might be an easy route to take, or maybe if you’re using different nuts you could look up fat percentages of different types of nuts and use those? Are GMOs (genetically modified foods) safe. You’ve now reached the part of your IA, where you’re supposed to start analyzing your methodology. Similarly, there are different ways to measure stuff and I encourage you to be creative – for example, to measure the amount of gas produced in a reaction, the common way to do it is with a gas syringe but you can do the experiment just as easily by collecting the gas in a balloon and measuring the volume of the balloon by submerging it in water. (Talk about that one data point that doesn’t quite fit, and invent a reason for why…, Limitations to your study? These are probably why you ended up here, so I do hope I can be helpful enough in this part. My teacher pretty much left us on our own to do the database along with a few useful websites and that's about it (only 4 ppl in my class are doing database questions). Just put the guy’s name in brackets after your point ends (Guysname). Adding error bars: (Skip this if you’re doing a Math IA). I want to measure the activation energy of a catalyzed reaction and compare it to the uncatalyzed reaction, but there are no online literature values for neither. Title. Right now, just keep in mind to add a hypothesis later on. I’ve looked at some examples, but I’m struggling with coming up with something on my own without copying the idea from others.