Cambridge Biology for the IB Diploma

Scheme of work for Chapter 1, Statistical analysis

Syllabus Content Time Outline of lessons Coursebook Worksheets Teacher’s

section required resources resources /
Teaching ideas
1.1 Statistical 2 lessons and  Explain the use of p19 Support: Practical activity:
analysis frequent mean and standard Q1, Q2, Q3 error bar
reinforcement deviation; calculate Worked practical with
during these from a set of examples p6, photosynthesis
practical work values; state and outline p7 experiments
the use of error bars in Short-answer Link to TOK: use
showing the range or Qs p2, p6, p7 of statistics as an
standard deviation of
TOK p8 objective
data
standard in
• Deduce the significance End-of- science
of the difference chapter Qs
p9–11 Link to ICT: use
between two sets of
of spreadsheets
data using values from
the t-test and tables Exemplar exam
questions
 Explain that correlation
does not necessarily
indicate a causal
relationship between
two sets of data
Note: 1 lesson = approximately 40 minutes

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