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MYP 9

Unit 1 - Water, water everywhere

Content

  • Kinetic theory
  • Solids, liquids & gases
  • Changes of state
  • Pure substances and mixtures
  • Solutions
  • Separation techniques
  • Elements and compounds
  • The periodic table
  • Metals and non-metals

Skills and understanding

  • Describe the effect of heat energy on the temperature change and particular motion
  • Explain the bulk properties of matter using kinetic theory
  • Plot heating and cooling curves
  • Separate mixtures by filtration, distillation & chromatography
  • Use unit multipliers: kilo, mega and divisors: deci-, centi-, milli-, micro-, nano-

Unit 2 - Keep in touch

Content

  • Energy propagation in waves.
  • Frequency, wavelength, wave speed and amplitude.
  • Water waves and light waves.
  • Reflection and refraction.
  • Convex lenses.
  • Sight and the eye.
  • Wave phenomena.

Skills and understanding

  • Calculate wavelength, frequency and speed using the wave equation
  • Relate change in wavelength and/or frequency to pitch in sound and colour in light
  • Draw and interpret reflection and refraction ray diagrams.
  • Label and recall the structure of the eye.

Unit 3 - Fuel your mind

Content

  • Macro and micro-nutrients (organic molecules, monomer, polymer)
  • The digestion system
  • Food tests
  • Energy transfer calculations using E(or Q) = mcΔT.
  • The nature of light
  • Photosynthesis
  • Respiration
  • Animal and plant cells and their cellular structures, such as chloroplast and mitochondria.
  • Food chains/webs

Skills and understanding

  • Research to explore the application of science on a nutrient deficiency disorder
  • Identify the nutrient present by experiment
  • Calculate the energy content in food by experiment and from secondary data.
  • Use experimental skills to investigate light
  • Model digestion using a range of equipment
  • Use microscopes to view cells

Unit 4 - We’ve got the power

Content

  • The types of energy.
  • The zeroth law of thermodynamics.
  • The law of Conservation of Energy.
  • Renewable energy and storage.
  • Energy transformation.
  • Sankey diagrams & efficiency.
  • Energy transfer: conduction, convection and radiation.
  • Conductors and insulators.
  • The Greenhouse effect.
  • Homeostasis - temperature regulation in humans.
  • The social, economic and ecological impacts of current and future energy policy.

Skills and understanding

  • Application of the law of Conservation of Energy.
  • Calculation using specific heat capacity.
  • Perform experiments to determine energy changes.

Unit 5 - May the force be with you

Content

  • Contact and non-contact forces.
  • Static electricity (positive and negative).
  • Force fields, both magnetic and electrostatic.
  • Atoms, elements and periodic table (from unit 1).
  • Sub-atomic particles.
  • Electronic configuration up to z = 20.
  • Inter-particular forces.
  • Formation of simple ions
  • Polyatomic ions (nitrate, sulfate, carbonate, hydroxide, ammonium).
  • Ionic bonding.
  • Ionic structure and properties.
  • Covalent bonding.
  • Covalent structure and properties.

Skills and understanding

  • The manifestation of forces in the natural world
  • Magnetic forces and fields
  • Adaption of species.
  • Interparticulate attractive forces.
  • The link between structure and property.
  • Recall the formulae of simple and polyatomic ions

Unit 6 - Home sweet home

Content

  • The scale from ecosystem to house interior.
  • Habitats.
  • Building materials.
  • Metals and their properties.
  • Electrical circuits.
  • Ohm's law.
  • Soaps and detergents.

Skills and understanding

  • The needs of living creatures.
  • Use of Ohm's law.
  • The relationship between structure and property in metals.
  • Soaping action.

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