Hey I'm happy this helped ;) and no I wrote all of mine on word. Tbh use whatever program you are more familiar with tho bc Google docs and Word have similar functions and it shouldn't make a noticeable difference so long as you know how the programs work. Just make sure to save your final doc as a PDF so nothing changes bc examiners likely won't view your IA on Google doc.
Hello thank you for your video! Was hoping for some advice. 1 am just starting out on my chemistry lA and was thinking of doing "What is the optimal concentration of hydrogen peroxide in honey to inhibit the growth of specific types of mold and which type of honey (where it is from) tends to be the most antibacterial? Please let me know what you think and how I can make it more challenging.
Hey nw hope it helped :) Tbh your general research idea is quite interesting, however there are a few things I would be mildly concerned about. Firstly, usually if you're working with types of molds or organisms you're required to also be able to identify the kind of mold/ organism which can be somewhat difficult as you can't necessarily control the kind of mold that grows on your plates unless you have incredibly sterile environments. I'm not entirely sure if this applies to the chemistry as well, but it definitely does to the biology IA. Considering your topic heavily centers on biology I would assume that you probably have to be able to properly identify the species but that's something I'm not too familiar with to be honest. Also, if you did continue with this research question, which definitely has a good amount of secondary sources you'll be able to access, you should definitely watch out that you don’t fall into the trap of focusing too much on biology. At the end of the day you are trying to write a chemistry IA meaning that you should definitely focus significantly more on any sort of chemical reactions that occur between the hydrogen peroxide and the inhibition of growth, so if you do end up choosing this topic I would try restricting your discussion of whatever mold/ bacteria you are working with to maybe one max 2 paragraphs in the intro and focus the rest of your introduction on the chemical reactions taking place/ how those relate to the syllabus. I'm not sure anything here was very helpful but I hope something helps!
hey great video!! Could you tell me your opinions about this topic that I thought of? Topic (chem HL) - How does different activation energy, at different temperature , effect the equilibrium of the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, catalysed by- (catalysis) so like, how different activation energy, which is effected by different temperatures, effect the equilibrium, and perhaps even analysing whether the effect of temperature on equilibrium this way is the same as a direct effect of temperature on equilibrium. this or Investigating the Effect of pH on the Activation Energy of Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition Catalyzed by Iron(III) Chloride (simple but easy to score ig) ahaha thankyou so muchhhhhh
Hey thanks for watching and sorry that this is a little delayed! It's a solid topic, however you are going to run into the problem that this topic is done extremely frequently (as in one of the most frequently done topics) and hence any error you make will likely immediately be downgraded. I think you would likely be better off chosing an enzyme and vary the temperature with that as it will likely give you a similar data set to analyze in terms of it's connection to the IB syllabus reaction rate. If you do this topic make sure you quadruple check your IA as seriously anything that is erranous or left out will be immediately recognized as examiners have likely seen the same experiment as an IA many many times and therefore know what should/ shouldn't be included.
I mean I'm not an IB coordinator or anything and so to be honest I don't really know in this context. I would generally speaking say though that if it was part of the syllabus at any point in time your topic is probably not broad or extensive enough to warrant a full IA topic and I would generally speaking steer very clear of any such experiments just because the IB can score you very very low if you do anything similar to the experiments that they used to do or well at least currently do, so just to be safe I would kind of steer past the experiments that they used to do and just try and find other experiments. I mean there are so many different ones out there that I'm sure you can find another topic without too much searching that would just negate that risk.
I will however say your topic doesn't have to be super different for example if you're talking about them using an experiment using catalase you can literally just use any other enzyme and that's totally different enough to be sufficient for your IA. It really doesn't have to be crazy complicated, so if you're talking in terms of a topic like that then feel free to do something similar just be very careful about the exact experiments that are prescribed by the syllabus, because even if your school doesn't teach those to you (even though they should) you will get marked down and that has happened in the past for certain students that didn't experience those teachings at their schools and didn't know that kind of information.
Thank you so much! It's just that we're seriously running out of time with the IA thing and because of the new syllabus my teacher didn't know it wasn't part of it anymore. I was gonna do the Winkler method and water salinity 😭 but we talked about an alternative idea which is like hand or knife splitting effects the dose distribution in a tablet, but idk how I feel about that one
Oh man, that sounds super frustrating. I'm sorry you're dealing with that! Worst case scenario, you can always do some sort of enzyme experiment and simply measure how enzymes respond to different conditions (temp., enyzme concentration, substrate concentration, etc.) because afaik that's always part of the syllabus and you can calculate the activation energy required or there's a couple other ways that you can connect it to the syllabus. These kind of experiments work super well because you can find enzymes in just about any biological system i.e. even if your school is broke and doesn't have money to buy purified enzymes, you can derive the enzyme from bovine meat for example or other kinds of meats or plants. Depending on whatever enzyme you're focusing on you would simply have to choose the correct meat or plant that has a high concentration of that specific enzyme. If you did do this, though, you should make sure that your write up is really good because these topics are done quite frequently, so any kind of mistakes that are made, or quite likely to be noticed very easily.
@@zeldawaite Hi, Zelda! I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your help. I don't know why, but every IA idea I tell my teacher about, they seem to disapprove of (temperature on buffer capacity, different catalysts on a reaction and they're also telling me enzymes are too biology for a chemistry IA). I've ran out of time and they've made me do the tablet splitting one, but honestly I don't know how good I can make it. I don't even know what type of background info I can add for it. If you have any advice, I'd love to hear it, but you've already helped a lot, so again, this is mainly just a thank you. :)
Hey, my page size is A4 with narrow margins. When I was doing my IA I also didn’t find anything but I’m almost entirely certain I didn’t have any points deducted for the format I used and if so it was max 1 point. If you do change margins make sure to submit it as a PDF tho bc a lot of ppl forget this and when others download their work the format gets totally messed up with words cut off etc. and that will lead to communication mark deductions but other than that I’m pretty sure a4 narrow margins is completely fine.
@@YousefTobail She can take more than 6 subjects if her school offer SL for 1 year instead of 2 years…so for the following year she can take another SL subject
Yea, there definitely should. For my IA the controlled variables are what I talked about under the variables section in the table. It's the table on pg. 3 of my IA, but obviously the variables will differ depending on your experiment.
Hey, there used to be a website that offered them for free (ibdocuments.com), but the IBO took them down, so I would recommend either asking or continuously checking to see if other websites that share PPQs have them and if they do I would recommend making a copy for yourself immediately, as the IB will likely eventually make them take it down for copyright infringement. Alternatively, you can ask your teachers. Every school receives a copy annually, however, not all teachers are willing to share it--always worth asking though.
Hey thanks for the feedback, I'll fix that for the next video, but I hope some of the info here still helped you. In the mean time, did you see the link to the word document with the full IA? You can read it there as well.
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Thank you so much this was super helpful. It really took the anxiety and uncertainty out of my IA :)
Man I remember that anxiety and it was not a fun trip lol but glad that you found the video helpful and good luck on your chem IA! 🍀
Useful video and well done on a high scoring IA. Many of the protocols highlighted will serve students well. Mr M 4 Chem
Hi! This video helped me a lot!!! Thank u😭
Btw, I’m writing my Chem IA on google docs. Did u also type it down on google docs???
Hey I'm happy this helped ;) and no I wrote all of mine on word. Tbh use whatever program you are more familiar with tho bc Google docs and Word have similar functions and it shouldn't make a noticeable difference so long as you know how the programs work. Just make sure to save your final doc as a PDF so nothing changes bc examiners likely won't view your IA on Google doc.
I love u for this ur my hero
literally cannot thank u enough
Hahaha glad it helped you :) Good luck on your IA 🍀🍀🍀
Hello thank you for your video! Was hoping for some advice.
1 am just starting out on my chemistry lA and was thinking of doing "What is the optimal concentration of hydrogen peroxide in honey to inhibit the growth of specific types of mold and which type of honey (where it is from) tends to be the most antibacterial?
Please let me know what you think and how I can make it more challenging.
Hey nw hope it helped :) Tbh your general research idea is quite interesting, however there are a few things I would be mildly concerned about. Firstly, usually if you're working with types of molds or organisms you're required to also be able to identify the kind of mold/ organism which can be somewhat difficult as you can't necessarily control the kind of mold that grows on your plates unless you have incredibly sterile environments. I'm not entirely sure if this applies to the chemistry as well, but it definitely does to the biology IA. Considering your topic heavily centers on biology I would assume that you probably have to be able to properly identify the species but that's something I'm not too familiar with to be honest.
Also, if you did continue with this research question, which definitely has a good amount of secondary sources you'll be able to access, you should definitely watch out that you don’t fall into the trap of focusing too much on biology. At the end of the day you are trying to write a chemistry IA meaning that you should definitely focus significantly more on any sort of chemical reactions that occur between the hydrogen peroxide and the inhibition of growth, so if you do end up choosing this topic I would try restricting your discussion of whatever mold/ bacteria you are working with to maybe one max 2 paragraphs in the intro and focus the rest of your introduction on the chemical reactions taking place/ how those relate to the syllabus. I'm not sure anything here was very helpful but I hope something helps!
@@zeldawaite that was very helpful, thank you so much!
what is wrong with the ear rape in every translation, the vid is prob good, but the sound was too much...
Hmmm that's odd sorry about that. Do you mind specifying it that was throughout the whole video or only in parts?
@@zeldawaite the transitions
Oh man I forgot to turn down the volume. I'll fix that in the future and thanks for letting me know I appreciate it!
hey great video!! Could you tell me your opinions about this topic that I thought of?
Topic (chem HL) - How does different activation energy, at different temperature , effect the equilibrium of the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, catalysed by- (catalysis)
so like, how different activation energy, which is effected by different temperatures, effect the equilibrium, and perhaps even analysing whether the effect of temperature on equilibrium this way is the same as a direct effect of temperature on equilibrium.
this or
Investigating the Effect of pH on the Activation Energy of Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition Catalyzed by Iron(III) Chloride
(simple but easy to score ig) ahaha
thankyou so muchhhhhh
Hey thanks for watching and sorry that this is a little delayed! It's a solid topic, however you are going to run into the problem that this topic is done extremely frequently (as in one of the most frequently done topics) and hence any error you make will likely immediately be downgraded. I think you would likely be better off chosing an enzyme and vary the temperature with that as it will likely give you a similar data set to analyze in terms of it's connection to the IB syllabus reaction rate. If you do this topic make sure you quadruple check your IA as seriously anything that is erranous or left out will be immediately recognized as examiners have likely seen the same experiment as an IA many many times and therefore know what should/ shouldn't be included.
Hi, Zelda! Is it ok for me to do something that's no longer part of the syllabus?
I mean I'm not an IB coordinator or anything and so to be honest I don't really know in this context. I would generally speaking say though that if it was part of the syllabus at any point in time your topic is probably not broad or extensive enough to warrant a full IA topic and I would generally speaking steer very clear of any such experiments just because the IB can score you very very low if you do anything similar to the experiments that they used to do or well at least currently do, so just to be safe I would kind of steer past the experiments that they used to do and just try and find other experiments. I mean there are so many different ones out there that I'm sure you can find another topic without too much searching that would just negate that risk.
I will however say your topic doesn't have to be super different for example if you're talking about them using an experiment using catalase you can literally just use any other enzyme and that's totally different enough to be sufficient for your IA. It really doesn't have to be crazy complicated, so if you're talking in terms of a topic like that then feel free to do something similar just be very careful about the exact experiments that are prescribed by the syllabus, because even if your school doesn't teach those to you (even though they should) you will get marked down and that has happened in the past for certain students that didn't experience those teachings at their schools and didn't know that kind of information.
Thank you so much! It's just that we're seriously running out of time with the IA thing and because of the new syllabus my teacher didn't know it wasn't part of it anymore. I was gonna do the Winkler method and water salinity 😭 but we talked about an alternative idea which is like hand or knife splitting effects the dose distribution in a tablet, but idk how I feel about that one
Oh man, that sounds super frustrating. I'm sorry you're dealing with that! Worst case scenario, you can always do some sort of enzyme experiment and simply measure how enzymes respond to different conditions (temp., enyzme concentration, substrate concentration, etc.) because afaik that's always part of the syllabus and you can calculate the activation energy required or there's a couple other ways that you can connect it to the syllabus. These kind of experiments work super well because you can find enzymes in just about any biological system i.e. even if your school is broke and doesn't have money to buy purified enzymes, you can derive the enzyme from bovine meat for example or other kinds of meats or plants. Depending on whatever enzyme you're focusing on you would simply have to choose the correct meat or plant that has a high concentration of that specific enzyme. If you did do this, though, you should make sure that your write up is really good because these topics are done quite frequently, so any kind of mistakes that are made, or quite likely to be noticed very easily.
@@zeldawaite Hi, Zelda! I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your help. I don't know why, but every IA idea I tell my teacher about, they seem to disapprove of (temperature on buffer capacity, different catalysts on a reaction and they're also telling me enzymes are too biology for a chemistry IA). I've ran out of time and they've made me do the tablet splitting one, but honestly I don't know how good I can make it. I don't even know what type of background info I can add for it. If you have any advice, I'd love to hear it, but you've already helped a lot, so again, this is mainly just a thank you. :)
Hi, what is your page margin? is it ok to put it in A4 or is there something like a standard magin? I didnt find anything anywhere talking about it :(
Hey, my page size is A4 with narrow margins. When I was doing my IA I also didn’t find anything but I’m almost entirely certain I didn’t have any points deducted for the format I used and if so it was max 1 point. If you do change margins make sure to submit it as a PDF tho bc a lot of ppl forget this and when others download their work the format gets totally messed up with words cut off etc. and that will lead to communication mark deductions but other than that I’m pretty sure a4 narrow margins is completely fine.
@@zeldawaiteis this on google docs?
The static noise was so loud and not needed
Yea I realized that later, I'm sorry about that
@@zeldawaite Yeah that was killing me
what subjects did you take?
Hey, I took Bio, Chem & English at HL and Econ, Psych, French ab initio, & Math at SL
@@zeldawaite why do you have 7 subjects
@@YousefTobail She can take more than 6 subjects if her school offer SL for 1 year instead of 2 years…so for the following year she can take another SL subject
shouldnt there also be uncontrolled/ monitored variables
Yea, there definitely should. For my IA the controlled variables are what I talked about under the variables section in the table. It's the table on pg. 3 of my IA, but obviously the variables will differ depending on your experiment.
Where do you find subject reports
Hey, there used to be a website that offered them for free (ibdocuments.com), but the IBO took them down, so I would recommend either asking or continuously checking to see if other websites that share PPQs have them and if they do I would recommend making a copy for yourself immediately, as the IB will likely eventually make them take it down for copyright infringement. Alternatively, you can ask your teachers. Every school receives a copy annually, however, not all teachers are willing to share it--always worth asking though.
I can’t see the report...
Too small
Hey thanks for the feedback, I'll fix that for the next video, but I hope some of the info here still helped you. In the mean time, did you see the link to the word document with the full IA? You can read it there as well.
@@zeldawaite could you help read my IA :)