Learning
Grab bag: nuclei and radioactivity Free
This is a quick online activity to stimulate students in accessing prior learningabout nuclei and radioactivity and maybe to prompt further inquiry Related concepts models, evidence Guiding question...
Learning
AD Using radioactivity
In this activity you will evaluate the significance of background radiation and inquire into a use of radioactivity. Criterion A: Knowing and Understanding Criterion D: Reflecting on the Impacts of Science...
Student e-course MYP 4-5
4.0 Starting MYP Physics Free
This unit of inquiry introduces MYP Physics as a subject. What is Physics about? What do Physicists do? How do Physicists think? And most important of all... how can you be a Physicist? Conceptual understanding...
Getting started
Getting started Free
Welcome to a parallel universe of physics in the MYP! Browse the menus below to get started. Welcome to your new InThinking MYP Physics site!Find out here how to learn MYP Physics best! Welcome to the...
Teaching
SGO: MYP 4-5 Physics
A subject group overview for the concepts, global contexts, content scope and transferable understandings for this MYP 4-5 Physics course. F&D P&CE Scope 5.6x Astrophysics...
Blog
Hello and welcome Free
Hello and welcome to InThinking MYP Physics! I have put this site together over two years, drawing on my own MYP teaching, examining and curriculum writing since some time in the last century. I am hugely...
Learning
AtL activities Free
These pages show students how to do things: particularly skills for approaches to learning in physics. This page introduces Visible Thinking routines from Harvard Project Zero. On this page you can find...
Learning
AC Galileo Thermometer
What properties of materials can we measure? What makes a material float? How do we exploit properties of materials in useful ways? In this activity we explore the way a Galileo thermometer uses the relationship...
About the course
Inquiry in MYP Physics Free
How do we develop students' skills for inquiry in MYP Physics? What role does reflection play? Look at this ‘spectrum’ or 'continuum' for approaches to teaching and learning. I used this in a school workshop...
Getting started
Students start here Free
Welcome to your new InThinking MYP Physics site! Find out here how to learn MYP Physics best! This site is designed for teachers and students. Its mission is to help you inquire into the universe through...