Gimnazjum Dwujęzyczne nr 50 w Warszawie
Middle Years Programme
IB School 000703
PHYSICS
Grade 7
Main topic
Making
measurements
Properties of
matter
Kinematics
Details
- Basic units in SI ( + other scales)
- Physical quantities (mass, length, time)
- Measuring errors
- Speed
- Scalars and vectors
- Force as a vector
- Weight and mass
- Density
- Pressure
- Atom
- Phases of matter
- Properties of solids
- Properties of liquids and gases (meniscus, intermolecular
interactions)
- Kinetic – molecular theory of constitution of matter
- Thermal expansion of solid, liquid and gas
- Description of motion (distance, displacement)
- Average and instantaneous velocity
- Straight line uniform motion
- Acceleration
- Uniformly accelerated (decelerated) straight line motion
- Free fall
ATL
- Calculating errors
- Using simple laboratory
equipment safely
- Working in a team
- Gathering information
about different units used in
the past
- Starting writing lab reports
– tables, graphs
- Observing
- Concluding
- Writing essay
- Writing lab report
- Using simple laboratory
equipment
- Draw, read and analyze
graphs and curves
- Developing research skills
- Using formulas in solving
problems
- Writing lab report
- Making predictions based
on data
Other areas of
interaction
Assessment tasks
(minimum)
Human
Ingenuity
Historical aspect of units.
Environment
Importance of pressure in
everyday activities
- TEST
- DESIGNING
EXPERIMENT
- POSTER
- SHORT ESSAY
Environment:
Thermal expansion in use.
Human ingenuity:
Brownian motion.
Phase changes used by us.
- One test
- One essay
- Laboratory work
- Lab report
- One test
- Lab report
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Gimnazjum Dwujęzyczne nr 50 w Warszawie
Middle Years Programme
IB School 000703
PHYSICS
Grade 8
Main topic
Forces in
nature
Work, power
and energy
Thermal
effects
Details
- Forces in balance, resultant force (2)
- Friction (1)
- Principles of dynamics (4)
- Hydrostatic pressure.(1)
- Pascal's law. (1)
- Archimedes law(2)
- Uniform circular motion (2)
ATL
- Using simple laboratory
equipment
- Draw, read and analyze graphs
and curves
- Developing research skills
- Using formulas in solving
problems
- Writing lab report
- Making predictions based on data
- Work and displacement (1)
- Observing
- Power (1)
- Concluding
- Basic machines (1)
- Using mathematical formulas
- Forms of energy, energy resources (1)
- Working in a team
- Energy transformation, power plants 1)
- Organizing the experiment
- Potential energy – gravitational and elastic (1) - Collecting data
- Kinetic energy (1)
- Describing experiments
- Principle of conservation of energy (2)
− Writing lab reports
− Writing essays
- Temperature (1)
- Working in a team
- Thermal conduction (1)
- Using simple lab equipment
- Convection (1)
- Using graphs
- Thermal radiation (1)
- Organizing the experiment
- Specific heat capacity (1)
- Collecting data
- First law of thermodynamics (1)
- Describing experiments
- Heat balance (1)
- Concluding
- Changes of phase:
- Observing
a) Heat of melting (1)
b) Heat of vaporization (1)
Other areas of
interaction
Assessment tasks
(minimum)
Environment/
Community and service
Safety on roads
Necessity and drawbacks of
friction
Human ingenuity
Applications of
Archimedes principle
- Two tests
- One essay
- Laboratory work
- Lab reports
- Solving problems
Community and service
Using basic machines.
Environment
Renewable and nonrenewable
sources of energy.
Different power plants.
- One test
- Few short tests
- One essay
- Laboratory work
Environment
Greenhouse effect.
Salt on ice
Community and service
Showing heat transfer in
everyday life.
Using materials to store thermal
energy
Human ingenuity
Vacuum flask.
- Two tests
- One essay
- Laboratory work
- Investigation –
processing data
- Lab report
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Gimnazjum Dwujęzyczne nr 50 w Warszawie
Middle Years Programme
IB School 000703
PHYSICS
- Heat balance with change of phase (1)
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Gimnazjum Dwujęzyczne nr 50 w Warszawie
Middle Years Programme
IB School 000703
PHYSICS
Grade 9
Main topic
Electrostatics
Electric
current
Vibrations and
mechanical
waves
Optics
Details
- Charging process (1)
- Columb’s Law (2)
- Electric field (2)
- Voltage. Work in electric field (2)
- Electric current (1)
- Electric current intensity (1)
- Simple electric circuit (1)
- Ohm’s Law
Resistance (2)
- Resistance in series and parallels (4)
- Electrical power and work (1)
- Solving electric circuits (1)
- Vibrations - summary
- Description of wave: wavelength,
period, speed
- Wave formula
- Wave effects
- Sound as a wave
- Characteristics of sound waves
- Ultrasounds and infrasound
- Sounds from strings and pipes
- Speed of sound
- Noise and acoustic
- Music instruments
- The ray model of light (1)
- Regular and diffuse reflection (1)
- Plane mirrors (1)
- Spherical mirrors (3)
- Refraction of light (1)
ATL
Other areas of interaction
- Using formulas in solving problems
- Developing research skills
- Observing
- Concluding
- Describing experiments
- Using simple laboratory equipment safely
- Building simple electric circuits
- Using formulas in solving problems
- Draw, read and analyze graphs and curves
- Developing research skills
- Structuring and writing reports
Environment
Earthing and safety rules.
- working in groups
- organizing an experiment
- sketching graphs
- writing lab reports
- concluding
- using math
- manipulating variables
- writing essays with bibliography
Environment
Noise
Animals using ultra – and
infrasound
Human Ingenuity
Different instruments
Health and social education
Using infra – and ultrasounds
by human
- Using simple laboratory equipment safely
- Using formulas in solving problems
- Drawing a ray diagrams
- Writing lab reports
Community and service
Optical fibers
Environment
Safety rules.
Risks of dealing with high
voltages and current and how
to avoid it.
Community and service
Costs of electric energy
Assessment tasks
(Minimum)
- One test
- Investigation –
describing phenomena
- Essay
- One test
- One essay
- Homework
- Laboratory work
- Investigation –
processing data
- Lab reports
- Solving problems
- One test
- One essay
- Laboratory work
- Lab report
- Test
- One essay
- Laboratory work
- Lab report
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Gimnazjum Dwujęzyczne nr 50 w Warszawie
Middle Years Programme
IB School 000703
PHYSICS
- Refraction by a prism (1)
- Total internal reflection (1)
- Lenses (converging and diverging) (1)
Grade 10
Electromagnetic
waves
Electromagnetism
Main
topic
Details
ATL
- Magnetism summary
- Electromagnetic induction
- Alternating current (period, frequency)
- Lenz’s law
- A simple AC generator
- Transformers
- organizing an experiment
- writing lab report
- sketching graphs
- concluding
- using math
- writing essays with bibliography
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Transmitting information (radio and television)
- Diffraction and interference of light waves
- Refraction of light
- organizing an experiment
- writing lab report
- sketching graphs
- concluding
- using math
- writing essays with bibliography
Other areas of interaction
Human Ingenuity
Electric motors
Magnetic relay
Circuit breaker
Electric bell
Community and service
Power across the country
Eddy currents
Human Ingenuity
Generators
Heart pacemaker
Health and social education
Using X – rays
Danger of ultraviolet
Community and service
Radio waves
Assessment tasks
(minimum)
- One test
- One essay
- Homework
- Investigation
- Lab report
- One test
- One essay
- Homework
- Investigation
- Lab report
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Gimnazjum Dwujęzyczne nr 50 w Warszawie
Middle Years Programme
IB School 000703
Nuclear physics
The Earth in
Space
PHYSICS
- Newton’s law of universal gravitation
- Projectile motion (vertical, horizontal, oblique)
- Geocentric and heliocentric system
- The Solar System
- Cosmic velocities
- Earth’s satellites
- Sun, Earth and Moon (day, night, seasons, eclipses)
- Stellar evolution: the birth and death of stars
- Sun’s structure
- The Big Bang theory
- The fate of the Universe
- Simple model of atom
- Binding energy
- Natural radioactivity
- Alpha, beta and gamma radiation
- Radioactive decay (rate of decay and half – life
- Nuclear fission
- Nuclear reactors
- Nuclear fusion
- sketching graphs
- concluding
- using math
- writing essays with bibliography
- searching information
Human Ingenuity
Copernicus
Community and service
GPS and other artificial satellites
- One test
- One essay
- Investigation –
processing data
- reading graphs
- concluding
- using math
- writing essays with bibliography
- searching information
Environment
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear waste
Health and social education
Radiation damage
Radiation therapy
Dating
Human Ingenuity
Maria Skłodowska – Curie
- One test
- One essay
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