How to use this Teacher’s Resource

This digital Teacher’s Resource contains both general guidance and teaching notes that help you deliver the content for the IB Physics course. You will find answers to the Coursebook and the Workbook questions on the supporting resources area of Cambridge GO—they are freely available to teachers only. There are teaching notes for each sub-chapter of the Coursebook. You can see an overview of where all topics are covered in the teaching plan in the ‘Resources’ column. Each set of teaching notes contains various features to help you deliver the topics covered in a unit/chapter.

At the start of each chapter is a teaching plan for the chapter. This summarises the topics covered in the chapter, including the number of learning hours recommended for each topic, an outline of the learning content, and the resources from this series that can be used to deliver the topic.

Teaching plan

This icon in the resources section indicates material that is available from Cambridge GO. Each chapter also includes information on any background knowledge that learners should have before studying content covered in the chapter.

Background Knowledge

• Explain what an electromagnetic spectrum represents, the different types of radiations and their uses, the quantitative relationship between wavelength, frequency and energy of the radiations.

Syllabus overview

• At the start of each unit is a syllabus overview, which gives a brief outline of the content knowledge, practical skills and opportunities to cover assessment objectives covered in that section of the syllabus. It also provides links to related topic areas in other parts of the syllabus.

• The learning plan will enable you to identify the related learning intentions and success criteria from the coursebook chapter.