LONG TERM PLAN 2021-2022
ST.BEES International School
Year Group: Grade 10
Week Unit
1 Chapter 1 – Making
measurements
2 Chapter 2 –
Describing motion
3 Chapter 3 – Force and
motion
IGCSE Physics
Term 1
Subtitles
• What is Physics?
• Physical quantity and measurement
• Numbers and units
• Measuring length and volume
• Measuring time
• Density
• Float or sink?
• Review of the unit
● Understand speed
● Distance-time graphs
● Understanding acceleration
● Calculating speed and acceleration
● We have lift-off
● Mass weight and gravity
● Falling and turning
● Force, mass and acceleration
● Momentum
● More about scalars and vectors
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Instructor: Mr. Parahat TAJOV
Objectives and outcomes
● To understand what does physics study
● To discuss the concept of unit
● To define measurement
● To distinguish system of units
● To define SI units
● To be able to use different units to measure volume
● To convert unit of volumes from one to another
● To understand concept of density
● To be able to calculate density with variables given
● To understand that objects float or sink in liquid
according to density
● Define speed and calculate average speed
● Plot and interpret distance-time and speed-time
graphs
● Work out the distance travelled from the area under
a speed-time graph
● Understand acceleration is a change in speed and
the gradient of a speed-time graph
● Discover the differences between mass and weight.
● Describe the ways in which a resultant force may
change the motion of a body.
● Find the resultant of two or more forces acting along
the same line
● Find out about the effect of friction on a moving
object
● Learn about circular motion
● Learn how force, mass and acceleration are related
● Understand the concepts of momentum and impulse
and apply the principal of the conservation of
momentum

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4 Chapter 4- Turning
effects
5 Chapter 5 – Forces
and matter
6 Chapter 6 – Energy
stores and transfer
7 Chapter 7 – Energy
resources
8 Chapter 8 – Work and
Power
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● The moment of a force
● Calculating moments
● Stability and centre of gravity
● Forces acting on solids
● Stretching springs
● The limit of proportionality and the
spring constant
● Pressure
● Calculating Pressure
● Energy stores
● Energy transfers
● Conservation of energy
● Energy calculations
• The energy we use
• Energy from the Sun
• Doing work
• Calculating work done
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● Difference between scalars and vectors
● Learn how to determine the resultant of two vectors
acting at right angles to each other
● Describe and calculate the turning force
● Investigate and apply the principle of moments
● Describe the conditions needed for an object to be in
equilibrium
● Describe how the centre of gravity of an object
affects its stability
● Apply the principle of moments when there is more
than one moment on each side of a pivot
● Recognise that a force may change the size and
shape of a body
● Plot and interpret load-extension graphs and
describe the associated experimental procedure
● Relate pressure to force and area
● Relate the pressure beneath a liquid surface to depth
and to density
● Identify changes in different energy stores
● Recognise different energy transfers and interpret
energy flow diagrams
● Understand the meaning of energy efficiency
● Apply the principle of conservation of energy
● Describe how electricity or other useful energy may
be obtained from different energy resources
● Give advantages and disadvantages of each energy
resource in terms of renewability, cost, availability
and environmental impact
● Understand that the Sun is the source for all energy
resources except geothermal, nuclear and tidal.
● Learn that work done equals energy transferred, or
the force multiplied by the distance moved in the
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• Power direction of the force
• Calculating power ● Relate power to work done and time taken
● Calculate work done and power
9 Chapter 9 - The • States of matter ● Describe three states of matter
kinetic particle model • The kinetic particle model of matter ● Investigate changes of state
of matter • Gases and the kinetic model ● Use the kinetic model to explain changes of states
● Temperature and the Celsius scale and the behaviour of gases
● The gas laws ● Calculate changes in the pressure and volume of a
gas
10 Chapter 10 – Thermal ● Thermal expansion ● Describe how and why solids, liquids and gases
properties of matter ● Specific heat capacity expand when their temperature rise
● Changing state ● Explain some everyday uses and consequences of
● thermal expansion
● Relate
11 Chapter 10 - Thermal ● Changing state ● explain changes of state using the kinetic model of
properties of matter ● Conduction matter.
Chapter 11 – Thermal ● convection ● Carry out experiments to demonstrate conduction
energy transfers and convection
● Explain why some materials conduct and others
don’t.
● Describe and explain convection currents
12 Chapter 11 – Thermal ● Radiation ● Explain thermal energy radiation
energy transfers ● Consequences of thermal energy ● Investigate the differences between good and bad
transfer emitters of radiation
● Research applications and consequences of thermal
energy transfer.
13 Final exams ● Problem solving ● To review concepts studied in the first semester
● To prepare for the final exams

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Year Group: Grade 10
Week Unit
1 Chapter 12 - Sound
2 Chapter 13 - Light
3 Chapter 13 - Light
4 Chapter 14 –
Properties of waves
5 Chapter 15 - The
electromagnetic
spectrum
6 Chapter 16 -
Magnetism
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IGCSE Physics
Term 2
Subtitles
● 12.1 Making sounds
● 12.2 How does sound travel?
● 12.3 The speed of sound
● 12.4 Seeing and hearing sounds
• 13.1 Reflection of light
• 13.2 Refraction of light
● 13.3 Total internal reflection
● 13.4 Lenses
● 13.5 Dispersion of light
● 14.1 Describing waves
● 14.2 Speed, frequency and
wavelength
● 14.3 Explaining wave phenomena
● 15.1 Electromagnetic waves
● 15.2 Electromagnetic hazards
● 15.3 Communicating using
electromagnetic waves
● 16.1 Permanent magnets
● 16.2 Magnetic fields
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Instructor: Mr. Parahat TAJOV
Learning Objectives and outcomes
● Describe how sounds are produced and how they travel
● Measure the speed of sound
● Describe how the amplitude and frequency of a sound
wave are linked to its loudness and pitch
● State the range of human hearing
● Ultrasound and its applications
● Use the law of reflection of light to explain how an image
is formed in a plane mirror
● Construct ray diagrams for reflection
● Investigate the refraction of light
● Draw ray diagrams to show how lenses form images
● Describe the difference between real and virtual images
● Describe the total internal reflection and how it is used
● Describe how the visual spectrum is formed
● Describe a wave in terms of speed, amplitude, frequency
and wavelength.
● Identify differences between transverse and longitudinal
waves
● Calculate wave speed
● Describe reflection and refraction of waves
● Describe diffraction of waves
● Describe the main features of electromagnetic spectrum
● Describe some uses of different electromagnetic waves
● Consider how electromagnetic waves can be used safely
● Describe magnetic forces between magnets and
magnetic materials
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7 17. Static electricity • 17.1 Charging and discharging
• 17.2 Explaining static electricity
• 17.3 Electric fields
8 18. Electrical • 18.1 Current in electric circuits
quantities
● 18.2 Voltage in electric circuits
● 18.3 Electrical resistance
9 18. Electrical ● 18.4 More about electrical resistance
quantities ● 18.5 Electrical energy, work and
power
10 19. Electrical • 19.1 Circuit components 349
circuits • 19.2 Combinations of resistors 353
• 19.3 Electrical safety
20. Electromagnetic ● The magnetic effect of a current
11 forces ● Force on a current carrying
conductor
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● Distinguish between hard and soft magnetic materials,
and nonmagnetic materials
● Use magnetic field patterns between magnets to explain
the forces between them and understand how to work
out the relative strength of a magnetic field
• Investigate the forces between positive and negative
electric charges
• Explain static electricity in terms of gaining or losing
electrons
• Distinguish between electrical conductors and insulators
• Describe electric fields.
● Learn about electric current, resistance and voltage
● Learn how the resistance of a wire relates to its length
and diameter
● Learn that electrons flow in the opposite direction to
conventional current
● Understand that energy is transferred from the power
source ( a battery ) to the circuit components
● Calculate resistance, electrical power, energy and the
cost of electrical energy.
● Calculate electric current and potential difference
● Draw and interpret circuit diagrams
● Describe how current and resistance vary in different
circuits
● Learn how to calculate resistance, currents and voltages
in circuits
● Describe the action of diodes and potential divider
circuits
● Highlight the hazards of using electricity
● Investigate magnetic field around current-carrying
conductor
● Describe some practical uses of electromagnets
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● Observe the force on a current-carrying conductor in a
magnetic field
12 20. Electromagnetic ● Electric motors ● Describe the principle of an electric motor and list ways
forces ● Beams of charged particles and of increasing its strength
magnetic fields. ● Describe the factors affecting the strength and direction
of EM fields and forces
● Describe the structure and operation of an electric motor
13 21. Electromagnetic ● Generating electricity ● List the factors affecting the size and direction of an
induction ● Power lines and transformers e.m.f induced in a circuit
● How transformers work ● Explain how an a.c generator works
● Explain why electricity is transferred at very high voltages
● Explain how a transformer works
14 22. The nuclear atom ● Atomic structure ● Describe the structure of the atom
● Protons, neutrons and electrons ● Describe the alpha scattering experiment which provides
evidence for the nuclear atom
● Explain what isotopes are
● Describe fission and fusion reactions
15 23. Radioactivity • 23.1 Radioactivity all around us ● Explain the term background radiation and list some of
• 23.2 Radioactive decay its sources
• 23.3 Activity and half-life ● Explain how ionizing nuclear radiation is measured
• 23.4 Using radioisotopes ● Describe radioactive decay
● Define and calculate radioactive half-life
16 Final exam ● Problem solving ● To review concepts studied in the second semester
● To prepare for the final exams

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