Welcome to this short, practical course on running the Biology in Practice Investigation. Across six lessons of about 25 minutes each, you will cover how the investigation runs this year, how to support each of its six stages with a whole class, how to run supervised experiment sessions, and how to authenticate the work and take it to submission.

Your survey answers, reflections and plans compile into a downloadable Professional Learning Portfolio when you finish. This lesson establishes your baseline confidence, states the investigation's weighting, marks, common brief and completion date, names the six stages, and shows one way to plan the hours back from Friday 26 February 2027.

Before the course content, rate your current confidence across the five areas this course develops. Answer honestly: lower ratings simply show where the later lessons can help most. You will re-take the same five statements at the end of the course so you can compare each rating with your first.

Watch this presentation on the Biology in Practice Investigation as it runs now: the two assessment components, the 2027 brief and its completion date, the six stages and their hours, and planning back from the completion date.

Study this investigation class planner, filled in for an invented sixth-year class working to the 2027 brief and planned back from the completion date. Read the notes on each choice.

Download the blank planner to use with your own class: Investigation class planner (Word).