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Physics (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 2
Stockholm, Sweden, 3 - 5 May 2024
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Physics (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 2
Berlin, Germany, 23 - 25 August 2024
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Student course (first exam 2025) Free
ToolsLearnActivity: Measurement and uncertaintyActivity: Mini investigation and exampleActivity: Making a videoExperimentPractical: Density of plasticine and Support pageStudyStudent notes: Measurement...
26 February 2024Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
After November 2024, this will become the homepage of the whole website, because we will all be teaching the 2023+ Guide. Until then, this is where you will find what you need to teach the new course...
24 January 2024Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
Teaching Sequences for the 2023 Guide Free
There are lots of factors to consider when planning a teaching sequence for a new Guide.LogisticalPedagogical The headline is that teachers probably shouldn't teach in the same order that the guide is...
10 March 2024Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
B1 plan: Thermal energy transfers
Big pictureGuiding questionsThe guiding questions get us to consider the concepts involved in thermal energy transfers and the links between our microscopic model for gases and the macroscopic measurements...
9 September 2023Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
A1 plan: Kinematics
Big pictureGuiding questionsThe physics course will commence (for most of us) with the idea of motion - both qualitative and quantitative - and we are prompted through the guiding questions to discuss...
9 September 2023Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
A2 plan: Forces and momentum
Big pictureGuiding questionsWith students (probably) already having some ideas about vectors from their study of motion quantities, it will follow quite naturally that forces too can be represented by...
9 September 2023Student course (first exam 2025)
B1 Thermal energy transfers
Matter is made of particles, and these particles have rrelative atomic masses that you will learn how to find. You will also define the mole (a really large number of particles). In this Activity, you...
22 June 2023Student course (2024) Free
Welcome to the ThinkIB student pages! We hope you will enjoy reading our Study Guide and attempting the Activities and Tasks. The Interactive Textbook is under development.Physics is all about deriving...
24 January 2024Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
C2 plan: Wave model
Big pictureGuiding questionsThere are many ways of categorising waves. The big example is whether a wave is transverse or longitudinal. But what makes a wave mechanical? How do we distinguish between...
9 September 2023Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
C1 plan: Simple harmonic motion
Big pictureGuiding questionsWith C1 being our introduction to the wave model, we are well-placed to explore oscillations in detail. After all, it is a series of oscillations in adjacent particles that...
9 September 2023Teaching plans (2024)
Welcome to the homepage for teachers with classes concluding exams up to November 2024. Here you will find unit and lesson plans, tests and information about internal and external assessment.
24 January 2024Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
A3 plan: Work, energy and power
Big pictureGuiding questionsIf the kinematics equations and Newton's laws are one way of predicting changes within a system based on the path taken, work, energy and power are another way that use snapshots;...
9 September 2023Teaching plans (2024)
SL units, lessons & tests
A core is the centre of something but I'm not sure that the syllabus core is really the centre, I would call it the base since it's the basics that everything else is built upon. The old syllabus was...
8 February 2023Teaching plans (first exam 2025)
B2 plan: Greenhouse effect
Big pictureGuiding questionsThe inclusion of the greenhouse effect in the theme of the particulate nature of matter is perfectly reasonable because the atmosphere is made of particles and the earth is...
9 September 2023Teaching plans (2024)
Astrophysics
The Astrophysics option includes stellar quantities, stellar characteristics, stellar evolution, cosmology and stellar processes.
15 December 2018Teaching plans (2024)
Teaching sequences Free
This is my plan for the two year course. The times are the IB suggested times. I teach a combined class (HL and SL) in the first year then they split into HL and SL in the 2nd year, if I were teaching...
17 June 2023Teaching plans (2024)
Mechanics
Mechanics is the study of motion, forces, work, energy, power and momentum. Key skills include finding gradients of graphs, taking measurements and distinguishing between scalar and vector quantities....
14 December 2018Student course (first exam 2025)
B4 Thermodynamics
Heat is work and work is heat!This activity introduces the energy changes associated with gas transformations. You will state the first law of thermodynamics in terms of heat, internal energy and work,...
3 February 2024Student course (first exam 2025)
B2 Greenhouse effect
You might think of a flapjack or the wall socket as being your go-to source of energy, but ultimately all the energy stored in fuels originates from the Sun. Here you'll find out how to explain this and...
22 June 2023Student course (first exam 2025)
C1 Simple harmonic motion
One object can oscillate, and this oscillation may take the form of simple harmonic motion.
22 June 2023