MYP Sciences Overview
Course: Conceptual Physics
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Measurement & Describing Motion | Global interaction, evidence, movement | Scientific and technical literacy | The ability to use formulas to predict motion is essential to a culture. Understanding this is essential to the transportation of goods and people and communication between people. |
Causes of Motion | Relationships, movement, interaction | Scientific and technical innovation | With knowledge of Newton’s 3 Laws, we can explain relationships between velocities, acceleration, distance and time of objects in motion and develop new technologies and applications. |
Electrical Circuits | Communication, energy, function | Personal and cultural expression | The flow of energy through a system is determined by its structure. |
Motors and Magnetism | Communication, culture, energy | Scientific and technical innovation | The discovery that electricity and magnetism are one in the same has led to the creation of many inventions that we use every day to content our world. |
Waves & Sound | Systems, patterns, interactions | Personal and cultural expression | Because the interaction of waves in open and closed systems affects the way we perceive the world it is essential to investigate wave properties. |
Properties of Electromagnetic Waves | Culture; time, place and space; energy | Scientific and technical innovation | The energy of electromagnetic waves can be transformed as it interacts with matter and is dependent on its location in space and time. |
Course: Biology
Unit Title | Concepts | Global Context | Statement of Inquiry |
Structure & Function | Systems, form, function | Identities and relationships | How can small, individual pieces work together to create a larger, functioning system? |
Matter & Energy Flow in Organisms | Identity, systems, models | Identities and relationships | How can using models create understanding of real world systems and situations? |
Inheritance of Traits | Relationships, consequences, patterns, transformation | Identities and relationships | How are characteristics of one generation passed to the next? |
Variation of Traits | Relationships, interaction, patterns | Identities and relationships | Relationships are impacted by interactions that lead to patterns. |
Common Ancestry & Natural Selection | Change, evidence, models | Orientation in time and space | What evidence shows that different species are related? How did modern day humans evolve? |
Adaptation | Communities, models, energy | Globalization and sustainability | Organisms and communities are interdependent and can affect the stability of a system. |
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems | Relationships, balance, models, energy | Identities and relationships | For many years, factors have been impacting environments in both positive and negative ways. Scientists are able to study these changes using models and taking into account balance and relationships within ecosystems. |
Cycles of Matter & Energy in Ecosystems | Communication, systems, consequences, environment | Fairness and development | Development of new technologies in health can lead to power struggles and unfair distribution of resources globally. |