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Curriculum

The whole year, readable in five minutes.

Pick a subject and a grade. You will see every module, what your child can do at the end of it, and the lessons inside, taken from the same plan our mentors teach from.

  • 8 modules a year
  • A practice class after every lesson
  • Two assessments
  • Recordings of every live class

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Physics · Grade 7

Grades 7 to 12. Live classes of four, eight a month.

modules
8modules
lessons
48lessons
months
12months
  1. 01

    Motion and Time

    Describe motion in everyday terms, and compare fast and slow with real measurements.

    • What it means for something to move
    • Fast and slow: comparing motion
    • Measuring speed
    • Measuring time, and the simple pendulum
    2 more lessons
    • Distance–time graphs
    • Types of motion in the world around you

    6 practice classes

  2. 02

    Forces and Their Effects

    Say what a force can do to an object, and identify contact and non-contact forces.

    • What a force can do
    • Push, pull, and forces in contact
    • Forces that act at a distance
    • Friction: helpful and unhelpful
    2 more lessons
    • Reducing and increasing friction
    • Pressure, and why it depends on area

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  3. 03

    Heat

    Read a thermometer correctly, and explain what temperature actually measures.

    • Hot, cold, and what temperature measures
    • Thermometers and how to read them
    • Conduction
    • Convection
    2 more lessons
    • Radiation
    • Keeping heat in and out: clothes and buildings

    6 practice classes

  4. 04

    Light

    Explain how we see, and predict reflection from a plane mirror.

    • How light travels, and how we see
    • Reflection from a plane mirror
    • Images in a plane mirror
    • Curved mirrors and what they do
    2 more lessons
    • Lenses, and the images they make
    • Colours of light and the rainbow

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  5. 05

    Electricity and Magnetism

    Build a simple circuit from symbols, and describe the heating effect of current.

    • Electric circuits and circuit symbols
    • The heating effect of current
    • The magnetic effect of current
    • Electromagnets and where they are used
    2 more lessons
    • The electric bell
    • Staying safe with electricity

    6 practice classes

  6. 06

    Sound

    Explain how sound is produced and why it needs a medium.

    • How sound is produced
    • How sound travels, and what it needs
    • Loudness and pitch
    • How we hear
    2 more lessons
    • Noise, and what it does to us
    • Sound in music and in nature

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  7. 07

    Weather, Air and Water

    Explain wind, air pressure and the water cycle in terms a child can use.

    • Air, wind, and why air moves
    • Air pressure in everyday life
    • Storms, cyclones and how they form
    • Weather and climate
    2 more lessons
    • The water cycle
    • Water as a resource under pressure

    6 practice classes

  8. 08

    Measuring and Investigating

    Choose the right instrument for a measurement and read a scale without error.

    • Choosing the right instrument
    • Reading a scale without error
    • Recording results in a table
    • Drawing a graph from your own data
    2 more lessons
    • Asking a question science can answer
    • A full investigation: the swinging pendulum

    5 practice classes · An assessment

Practice classes go over the lesson before them: worked problems, revision and doubts. Assessments sit at the midpoint and the end of the year.

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