Year 10 Assessment Booklet 2019

IB MYP YEAR 10 – SCIENCES: PHYSICS

SEMESTER STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

CONCEPT

GLOBAL CONTEXT Scientific and Technical Innovation

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

Relationships Energy Movement

Unit 1: Mechanics

Research Assignment 1 Criterion D 11.02.19 – 18.03.19 Student Experiment 1 Criteria B, C 19.03.19 – 26.04.19

The relationship between movement, force and energy transformations is explored through mathematical models and investigative methods.

• Measurements and units • Calculating speed and acceleration • Forces and vector application • Newton’s Three Laws of Motion • Transfer of energy

Systems Form Evidence

Unit 2: Light and Waves

Observations and measurement of the evidence and form of energy transfer, allows modelling and scientific and technical application of waves.

Scientific and Technical Innovation

ONE

Semester 1 Exams Criterion A 17 – 29.05.19

• Light and Colour • Sound

• Reflection in plane mirrors • Reflection in curved mirrors • Refraction

Change Energy Transformation

Unit 3: Power Production

Student Experiment 2 Criteria B, C 16.07.19 – 09.08.19 Research Assignment 2 Criterion D 20.08.19 – 22.10.19

Stored energy in fuels is transformed to produce electrical energy through a variety of sustainable and non-sustainable processes.

Globalisation and Sustainability

• Current electricity • Sources of energy

• Thermal energy: fossil fuels, • Thermal energy: nuclear power • Alternative power production

TWO

Systems Evidence Form

Unit 4: Astrophysics

Observation of evidence, measurement of phenomena, and the application of scientific knowledge leads to an understanding of the ordered nature of the universe and our place in it.

Orientation in Time and Space

Semester 2 Exams Criterion A 04 – 13.11.19

• Within the Solar System • Gravitational Fields • Distances beyond the Solar System • The Brightness of stars • Cosmology

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