GioPhysics MYP Physics · Ages 11–16
Build physics thinking across five adaptable phases.
Independent physics resources for students in the Middle Years Programme, organized around inquiry, evidence, real-world impact, and the four MYP sciences assessment criteria. Choose the order and depth that fit your learners.
Suggested, not prescribed. MYP sciences is a flexible framework. Schools select content and may reorder, combine, revisit, or deepen every chapter in this GioPhysics planning route.
GioPhysics suggested MYP Physics progression
One phase. One chapter. One clear next step.
Choose a suggested phase, then focus on one chapter and one subsection. Schools may reorder, combine, revisit, or deepen every part of this pathway.
- 5
- suggested phases
- 20
- chapter strands
- 105
- mapped focuses
Observe and measure
Inquiry, motion and forces
How can everyday motion and interactions become reliable evidence?
1 · Choose a chapter
4 chapters in this suggested phase
Chapter 01
Scientific inquiry and measurement
Questions, variables, safe methods, SI measurement, uncertainty, graphing, evaluation, and scientific communication.
Subsection 1 of 5
SI units, prefixes, and measurement
Criterion A foundation: choose appropriate quantities, instruments, units, and prefixes.
Planning reference
Open only the context you need.
Framework, assessment, roles, planning, and source notes stay available without sitting between a learner and the next lesson.
FrameworkMYP Physics is not a fixed topic syllabus.+
A common learning architecture
- Inquiry through research, observation, and experimentation
- Four equally important sciences assessment criteria
- Conceptual, contextual, and interdisciplinary learning
- Individual and collaborative scientific work
The course that fits their learners
- Discrete physics, modular sciences, or an integrated model
- The year in which each physics topic is introduced
- The depth, examples, investigations, and local contexts
- How learning is adapted to school and national requirements
A flexible framework in which schools design the science course.
A separate subject course with Standard Level and Higher Level routes.
Continue to IB Diploma Physics →AssessmentCriteria A–D shape every learning cycle.+
Knowing and understanding
Explain physics with accurate scientific knowledge, then apply it to familiar and unfamiliar situations.
Inquiring and designing
Turn a testable question into a justified hypothesis and a safe, repeatable investigation.
Processing and evaluating
Present and interpret data, judge a hypothesis, and improve the method using evidence.
Reflecting on the impacts of science
Explain how physics is used, weigh consequences, and communicate with credible sources.
Optional Year 5 eAssessment: participating schools may enter students for a two-hour on-screen sciences assessment. It is not taken by every MYP learner and is separate from classroom assessment and the student-directed personal project.
Unit designContexts and approaches to learning.+
Global contexts
Choose a context that makes the physics matter beyond the classroom.
- Identities and relationships
- Orientation in space and time
- Personal and cultural expression
- Scientific and technical innovation
- Globalization and sustainability
- Fairness and development
Approaches to learning
Plan the skills learners will practise—not only the content they meet.
- Communication
- Social
- Self-management
- Research
- Thinking
For your roleTurn the map into your next action.+
Learn, test, and ask why.
Follow your current chapter, practise with interactive activities, and ask GioAI for a hint or a similar problem when you get stuck.
Adapt a coherent teaching route.
Choose a phase, reorder the chapters, project mapped lesson decks, and build investigations around criteria B and C.
See the learning journey clearly.
Understand what your child is building, then create a calm improvement plan based on the course and time remaining.
School planningPlan time, collaboration, and evidence together.+
The MYP requires schools to allocate at least 50 teaching hours to each subject group in each year. Physics may be taught within an integrated or discrete sciences course, so this pathway is designed to be split, combined, and revisited.
Schools also plan at least one collaboratively developed interdisciplinary unit each year involving at least two subject groups. Physics can contribute authentic evidence through energy, design, sound, movement, climate, space, and technology questions.
Source checkOfficial framework first.+
GioPhysics uses official public IB programme guidance to describe the framework. Your school’s authorized documentation and unit plans remain the authority for local implementation.
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