Students start here

Overview

This site is designed for teachers and students. Its mission is to help you inquire into the universe through the powerful lens of physics, with a student e-course that intregrates activities and assessments in authentic ways. 

There is extensive 'help' for the site on the top-right hand side of each page:

The top-level menu allows you to jump between the different categories of materials. If you are a student, only some of these are visible to you. Your teacher can make pages visible so that they can build your own, personalised learning path through the site.

About the course  is the place to go for general information, hints and ideas for teaching and learning MYP Physics

Teaching is where your teacher has planning materials, from subject group overviews down to unit planners. This material is intended for teachers only.

Learning  is where you will find learning activities for students. This material can be used by you and it can be assigned to you using the student access tools. The activities include both formative checks for understanding, and full summative assessments. Tasks are titled beginning with the target assessment criterion, so they are easily accessible.

Assessment is mostly directed at teachers but your teacher might make some pages available to you if you are self-evaluating or peer-evaluating your work. It includes

   Information on the Approaches to MYP Sciences Assessment used on this site
   'ATTL' pages - these are the marking notes and task-adapted assessment rubrics for the activities found in the 'learning' section.
   ' marked student tasks' where you can find student scripts as assessment exemplars
   ' e-assessment' materials to help prepare students for the MYP e-assessment in Physics.

The Student e-course MYP 4-5  tab provides access to the interactive student learning pages for the course. Activities (formative and summative) are embedded in the pages, including additional quizzes and tests.

Using the student e-course and activities materials.

You can see guides to the way the student pages are laid out here:

Template: Student activity is an example of the layout for a student activity.

Template: Student coursebook unit shows you how each unit of inquiry is introduced in the student e-course.

Template: Student coursebook content shows you an example of an inquiry within the student e-course.

Note that along with activities such as flashcards, interactive quizzes, downloadable resources and full MYP learning activities, you can also highlight your student e-course.

Ready to start?

You might like to begin with the first inquiry in the e-course: 4.0 Starting MYP Physics