IB Cabinet
of Curiosities

A working collection of classroom materials, kept by a coordinator who could not stop making them.

The Collection

Eighteen items across three shelves
Language & Literature Eight items
Poem titles from the Owen collection arranged around a slide introducing the global issue and literary work Three global issues with the poems sorted beneath each The RIZZ paragraph frame An annotated extract from Asleep A completed five-bullet IO outline 5 slides

Wilfred Owen & the Individual Oral

A first IO cut in half — five minutes, one literary work, and three global issues with the poems already sorted.

DP Year 1Unit · 7 documentsGoogle Workspace
The SEE thinking routine for reading images The RIZZ paragraph model worked on a photograph A photo essay image annotated with technique labels The artist trends table Six cartoonists to choose from 5 views

Image as Text

A visual rhetoric unit that widens twice — one photo to a photo essay, one cartoon to an artist's whole body of work.

DP Year 1108 slides + quizFree
A comparison table of three Paper 1 essay structures with their risks Model A linear, basic and top-band versions side by side Model B organized by technique Model C organized by idea Both conclusions side by side 5 pages

Reading the Campaign Trail

One photo essay, one argument, six model essays — three structures at two levels, so the difference is visible line by line.

DP Year 1–216 pagesEditable
The full one-page Paper 1 guide with seven numbered stations Mind the Gap and unpacking the guiding question Annotating with See, Feel, Respond Three structures with their risks, and a thesis formula Snapshot, zoom in, zoom out with a worked example 5 views

Paper 1 in Seven Stations

The whole paper on one page, with a time budget on every station — so a student can tell mid-exam whether they're behind.

DP Year 1–2One page · A4Free
The printable Paper 2 organizer with seven timed stations The planning slide: brainstorm, select, organize The thesis components slide The body paragraph diagram with transition banks Four practice prompts 5 views

Two Works, One Clock

Paper 2 in seven timed stations, with a body structure that makes it impossible to write two essays and call it a comparison.

DP Year 1–2Slides, organizer, promptsLive timers
You never know what type of questions you'll be dealt on Paper 2 A wild card for a key moment in The Crucible A color-coded wild card for the Prologue of Antigone Brainstorming a past Paper 2 question by hand The typed essay outline 5 views

Wild Cards

Eighteen key moments across six works, studied closely enough to play on any Paper 2 question — and a past paper worked to show how.

DP Year 1–2Decks, video, outlineFree
The Persepolis unit overview handout Discussion formats and the checkpoint schedule The historicism lens card The graphic narrative lens card Test version A with four essay questions 5 pages

Persepolis Through Four Lenses

Four groups read one graphic novel four incompatible ways, then meet — so every student is the only person who read it that way.

DP Year 1Six weeks · 7 checkpointsEditable
The unit's four guiding questions A device slide on callbacks A case-study comedian profile A color-coded transition from a real transcript The terms sheet 5 views

It's Funny Because It's True

Stand-up as a non-literary text — one comedian across two specials, then students write and perform their own.

DP Year 1–2Full unitPerformance task
Theory of Knowledge Eight items
Does mathematics get its certainty from proof or from consensus? A polynomial making 42 a valid answer in a simple sequence The dramatis personae of the mathematical play Sona sand drawings of the Lunda-Tchokwe people Tiered questions ending on whether the structure was there to be found 5 slides

Discovered, or Merely Agreed Upon?

Five lessons that make a class watch their own certainty fail — then ask who gets credited with knowing something.

DP Year 1Five lessonsRubrics included
The opening slide of the Choose Your Thinker deck Laozi's character sheet from the seminar deck The contents page listing forty-two thinkers by era A full thinker profile from the guide The how to choose closing slide 5 views

Pillars of Western Thought

Forty-two thinkers with verified quotations and official knowledge questions — plus a deck that turns them into a Socratic seminar.

DP Year 1Web, PDF, PPTXFree
The central question about how the medium changes knowledge A warm-up comparing a book with its film adaptation Three discussion prompts The assessment questions forking on system versus experience The argument and evidence rubric 5 slides

Four Clips, One Voice

One vocal across four media, and a song about panicking in a club that became a track people dance to in clubs.

DP Year 1Two lessonsFree
The blank six-box template for the timed essay The basic response filled in The strong response filled in The strong response, arts side The four-criterion rubric 5 pages

Two Answers to the Same Question

A timed essay scaffold with a weak and a strong response to the same prompt, built from the same material — so the difference isn't what you know.

DP Year 1Three PDFsFree
The opening reflective activity built on a Kierkegaard quotation Thinking Like a Historian: storyteller, scientist, lawyer A seminar group page with knowledge questions and quotations The school yearbook source analysis project The Haitian Revolution summative with three sources 5 pages

History as an Unnatural Act

Five lessons ending with students interrogating a source they're personally implicated in — their own school's yearbook.

DP Year 1Unit · 31 pagesFree
The personality test analysis worksheet Do these categories measure reality or construct reality? A BuzzFeed quiz result beside questions about its validity The census resource site The final reflection question 5 views

What a Questionnaire Can Know

Students take a personality test and judge it, then meet the same instrument running on a whole country.

DP Year 1Two lessonsFree
The PredictaGov proposal and its four provisions Expert one's sheet with three sentence stems Expert two's sheet on ranking 3,141 counties The teacher answer key for expert one The answer key for expert two 5 pages

Four Experts, One Algorithm

A jigsaw where the pieces actually interlock — four broken provisions, and only one expert can explain each.

DP Year 1One lessonFree
What unifies the natural sciences as an area of knowledge? An inductive syllogism using cloven-footed animals The logic of confirmation Four eras and their characteristic methods What remains constant despite all the change? 5 slides

What Makes Science, Science?

Four lessons watching method change completely four times — then asking what survived.

DP Year 1Four lessonsFree
Coordination Two items
The dashboard view with counters, workload charts and milestones A color-coded month calendar The browse and export view The import view The get started view 5 views

Two Years on One Screen

A whole Diploma cohort's deadlines in one file — the worst month flagged early, and a ready-to-open copy you can publish to your school.

CoordinatorsOne fileFree
The cohort headlines and the distribution of total points Grade spread for every subject, split at a 4 Which papers pulled the grade down Every student's grade in every subject, with invented demo names Awarded grades against predicted grades 5 views

Streamlining Data Review

Drop in your IB results files for instant charts — with a protocol that turns them into one change per department.

CoordinatorsTool and protocolFree