03 / resources · smooth ER

Made, remixed, yours to take.

The smooth ER ferries lipids around the cell. These ferry the handouts, slides, and labs I've created or remixed, curated and free for any teacher to lift. For the pedagogy these pair with, see my teaching approach; for ones built as web apps, see the apps collection.

General For everyone, regardless of program.

G01 Blog: the teaching notebook Tales from the teaching trenches and insights from my battle wounds. blog →

biology jokes

Press the button. Brace yourself.

awaiting groans

the full staffroom →

word roots

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enter the Stoa →

Tools Browser tools you can use without an account.

T01 Picture Reveal builder A picture-reveal game generator. Type questions or upload a CSV, drop in an image, and download a self-contained HTML game to share with students. tool · in-browser → T02 Diagram Labeler builder under construction Upload an image, click to drop numbered pins, type the labels. Download a self-contained HTML worksheet where students name each pin. Hints and a final score built in. tool · in-browser → T03 Tarsia jigsaw builder Type question/answer pairs and build a classic Tarsia jigsaw as a triangle, rhombus, or hexagon. Download an interactive drag-and-drop puzzle or a printable cut-out sheet with an answer key. Every question meets its answer on a shared edge. tool · interactive + print → T04 Dominos builder Type question/answer pairs and build loop-matching dominoes: the answer on one card, the next question beside it. Download an interactive drag-and-drop chain (correct matches pulse green) or a printable cut-out sheet with an answer key. tool · interactive + print → T05 IA stats toolkit Build a proper data table, plot it with error bars, pick the right statistical test, then run a t-test, chi-squared, Spearman's rank, or ANOVA with Tukey HSD, formula and worked example included. No AI, just arithmetic, in the browser. tool · in-browser →

◎ Guided labs

Step-through practical labs.

Practicals walked end-to-end: setup, method, data table, analysis, mark scheme. Pairs with the videos and the interactive lessons.

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Built from your own labsheet? Each of these starts as a PDF worksheet and is turned into a walkthrough by a Claude skill I wrote called lab-companion. DM me on LinkedIn and I'll share it.

◎ Interactive Lessons

Interactive lessons you can scroll through.

Click-through walkthroughs that pair with the videos. Each one embeds questions you have to answer before you can move on, and shows the mark scheme inline.

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◎ Summary doodles

One-page doodle-to-complete sheets.

Printable A4 revision sheets: three panels, a term bank, and blank space. Students doodle and annotate each concept until the page explains itself.

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◎ MCQ quizzes

Multiple-choice quizzes that mark themselves.

Topic-by-topic retrieval practice. Each answer is marked on the spot, correct lights green, wrong flags pink, with a one-line explanation underneath and a running score.

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◎ Biology games

A daily puzzle that teaches something.

No login, a new one every day. Connections and Lineage, spanning IB SL, IB HL and AP - it's all just biology.

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R01 Topic dominos, hand-built Pre-AI vintage. Hand-cut and curated unit by unit, before LLMs got into lesson planning. Lift and remix. page ↗ R02 Internal Assessment: RQ + data processing Choosing and refining a research question that won't fight the rubric, plus the data-processing moves the markers actually reward. page ↗ R03 Exam revision: pub quizzes and lists Pub-quiz decks and curriculum lists for the final stretch. Rounds mix silly and substantive; lists let students scan the whole syllabus and find the gaps. page ↗ R04 Practice paper maker Build an original IB-style paper — Paper 1A, 1B, 2 or a topic quiz — with a proper markscheme, then print or save as PDF. Share the link and the same paper regenerates for the whole class. app ↗