SYLLABUS FOCUS FOR MTT1 - MYP 2022-2023

Year 5 (GRADE 10)

SUBJECT SUBJECT CONCEPTS & CONTENT

English A Criteria To Be Assessed:

A: Analyzing
C: Producing Text
Concept and content:
Global Context – Fairness and Development
1. Biographies, About us columns, Testimonials, infographics
2. Vision and mission for brands, Articles
3. Producing persuasive texts based on a situation
4. Annotations.

English B Criteria To Be Assessed:

A: Listening comprehension
D: Writing
Concept and content:
1. Vocabulary of the unit.
 2. Most popular hobbies in target country and your country.
3. Advantages of practicing hobbies
4. Have hobbies changed over a period?
5. What are the preferred activities of the students in school?
6. Essay, letter writing

Second Language Criteria To Be Assessed:

Hindi Phase 2 A: Listening comprehension
D: Writing
Concept and content:
1. Vocabulary of the unit.
2. Most popular hobbies in target country and your country.
3. Advantages of practicing hobbies
4. Have hobbies changed over a period?
5. What are the preferred activities of the students in school?
6. Essay, letter writing
Second Language Criteria To Be Assessed:
Hindi Phase 3 Criteria A – Listening
Criteria D - Writing
Concept and content:
1. What is sustainability?
2. What does overpopulation, overconsumption mean?
3.Sustainable development
4. What are some positive contributions people, organizations and countries are making?
Writing skills – E mail writing, Interview writing, Article writing

Second Language Criteria To Be Assessed:

Spanish Phase 3 Criteria A – Listening
Criteria D - Writing
Concept and content:
1. What is sustainability?
2. What does overpopulation, overconsumption mean?
3.Sustainable development
4. What are some positive contributions people, organizations and countries are making?
Writing skills – E mail writing, Interview writing, Article writing
Second Language Criteria To Be Assessed:
French Phase 2 A: Listening comprehension
D: Writing
Concept and content:
1. Vocabulary of the unit.
2. Most popular hobbies in target country and your country.
3. Advantages of practicing hobbies
4. Have hobbies changed over a period?
5. What are the preferred activities of the students in school?
6. Dialogue ..Email /letter, article writing

Second Language Criteria To Be Assessed:

French Phase 3 A: Listening comprehension
D: Writing
Concept and content:
1. Study of various theme related issues through articles/ video / audio clips
2. Detail study of theme related vocab through word mapping etc.
3. Reading comprehension and writing titles of about 100 125 words to develop both the skills
4. Oral descriptions of the videos/audios
5. Writing an essay of about 600-650 words choosing a sub topic within the theme.
Writing skills – essay writing Listening skills – videos /audios verbal descriptions of about 3-4 minutes
Second Language Criteria To Be Assessed:
German Phase 2 A: Listening comprehension
D: Writing
Concept and content:
1. Vocabulary of the unit.
2. Most popular hobbies in the target country and your own country.
3. What are the advantages of practicing hobbies
4. Have hobbies changed over a period of time?
5. What are the preferred activities and hobbies of the students in school?
6.Email /letter, article

Second Language Criteria To Be Assessed:

Spanish Phase 2 A: Listening comprehension
D: Writing
Concept and content:
1. Vocabulary of the unit.

2. Most popular hobbies in target country and your country.

3. Advantages of practicing hobbies

4. Have hobbies changed over a period?

5. What are the preferred activities of the students in school?

 6. Essay, letter writing

Math Extended Criteria To Be Assessed:

C: Communicating
D: Applying Mathematics in real-life context
Concept and content:
1. Reasoning with data – Statistics
2. Measures of central tendency - Data processing, mean, median and mode, for raw, discrete and continuous data
3. Graphical representation of data - box-and whisker plots, pie charts, stem and leaf plots, cumulative frequency
graphs, Histograms for continuous fixed interval group.
4. Lines of best fit
- bivariate graphs, scatter graphs,
5. Measures of dispersion - quartiles and percentiles for discrete and continuous data, interquartile range and
standard deviation (including application and relationship with the median),
6. Qualitative handling of probability,
7. Sets, including notation and operations up to three sets.
8. Probability - Probability calculations with Venn Diagrams, tree diagrams and sample space, Probability
calculations for dependent and independent events.
9. Theoretical probability and experimental probability.
10. Mutually exclusive events, combined events, Relative frequency.
Math Standard Criteria To Be Assessed:
C: Communicating
D: Applying Mathematics in real-life context
Concept and content:
Reasoning with data – Statistics
1. Measures of central tendency - Data processing, mean, median and mode, for raw, discrete and continuous data
2. Graphical representation of data - box-and whisker plots, pie charts, stem and leaf plots, cumulative frequency
graphs, Histograms for continuous fixed interval group.
3. Measures of dispersion - quartiles and percentiles for discrete and continuous data, interquartile range and
standard deviation (including application and relationship with the median),
4. Lines of best fit
- Bivariate graphs, scatter graphs,
5. Sets
- Including notation and operations up to three sets. Venn diagram.

Physics Criteria To Be Assessed:

Criteria A: Knowing and Understanding.
Criteria B: Inquiring and designing.
Concept and content:
1. Magnets and magnetic materials.
2. Draw the field lines around a bar magnet, label the north and south poles and show the direction that a “free-
moving north pole” would move in.
3. Earth’s magnetism.
4. Use and explain the terms “current” (I), “potential difference” (V) and “resistance” (R).
5. Use and draw circuits using the recognized symbols. Ohm’s law
6. Use the equation V = IR to calculate the current through a resistor when a known value of potential difference is
applied.
7. Calculate the combined resistance of different combinations of resistors using the two equations RT = R1 + R2, for
resistors in series, and 1/RT = 1/R1 + 1/R2, for resistors in parallel.
8. Understand the difference between ohmic and non-ohmic resistors and draw a graph of each.
9. Draw the magnetic field around a single wire and a coil of wire.
10. The force on an electric current in a magnetic field is at right angles to the direction of the current and the field.
11. The motor effect, the action of a commutator, and the use of Fleming's left-hand rule to predict the direction a motor
will spin or the direction of the force on a single wire in a magnetic field
12. The action of a dynamo and alternator, and the difference between a split-ring and slit-ring commutator
13. Understand the difference between alternating and direct current and draw graphs of each type of current.
14. How power stations operate and how electricity is transferred from one region to another using high-voltage power
lines
15. The operation of an AC transformer, why this type of transformer is significant and solving problems using:
• Vp/Vs = Np/Ns to solve transformer problems
• P = IV to explain the relative power loss in transmission lines
• Ip x Vp = Is x Vs to explain the operation of an ideal transformer.
Chemistry Criteria To Be Assessed:
Criterion A: Knowing and Understanding.
Criterion B: Inquiring and designing.
Concept and content:
Rate of reaction and Equilibrium
1. Reaction rate and collision theory
2. Factors affecting the rate of reaction: nature of reactants, concentration, surface area, catalyst, temperature
3. Equilibrium
a. Physical
b. Chemical
c. Le Chatelier’s principle: concentration, temperature and pressure

Biology Criteria To Be Assessed:

Criterion A: Knowing and Understanding
Criterion D: Reflecting on the impacts of Science
Concept and content:
Interactions within the environment
1. Habitats change or destruction,
2. Pollution (water, air, pesticides, nuclear fallout, plastics)
3. Conservation (species and habitat)
4. Overexploitation
5. Mitigation of adverse effects of global warming
•Acid rains
•Pathogen, parasites, predator, prey relationships
 •Food chains & webs
•Competition, speciation, and extinction
•Habitat & ecosystems
•Interdependency, unity and diversity in life forms.
•Energy transfer
•Nutrient cycles (Nitrogen, carbon & water)

History Criteria To Be Assessed:

Criterion A: Knowing and understanding
Criterion C: Communicating
Concept and content:
1. Key concept – Global Interaction
2. Related concept – Identities, Revolution
*Nationalist Movements in the British Empire (What factors led to India gaining independence in 1947?
-The 1857 Revolt
*Gandhi and the non- cooperation movements
*What was the response of the British to civil disobedience?
-What was the impact of the second world war on the nationalist movement in India
-How is the outcome of WW2 affect the fight for independence
-What was the situation of Jinnah and the Muslim League
-What was the result of Partition
 -Why was Gandhi assassinated

KENYA:
*Why did a nationalist movement develop in Kenya?
*Why did resentment develop against the British?
*What actions did the Mau Mau take?
*What were the results of the Mau Mau rebellion?
How important was
*The Mau Mau rebellion in getting Britain to give independence to Kenya?

Geography Criteria To Be Assessed:

Criterion A:Knowing and understanding
Criterion D:Thinking critically
Concept and content: Change
Unit- 1 Rivers and Coasts- Processes, landforms and management
1. River system and environment, profiles, river processes of landform formations, hazards and management
2. Coastal system and environment, processes of landform formations, hazards and management
3. Case studies
Economics Criteria To Be Assessed:
Criterion A: Knowing and understanding
Criterion C: Communicating
Concepts:
Key concept – system
Related concept – Model and power
Global context – Identities and relationships

Content:
Circular flow of income and business cycle
i. Circular flow of income model
ii. Stages of business cycle
Government’s economic and social objectives
iii. Inflation: Definitions, deflation, disinflation. (Introductory)
iv. Unemployment: Definitions, types of unemployment (structural, cyclical, seasonal). [Introductory]
Conflict and ethical issues in economics
v. Conflicts in achieving government objectives [inflation or unemployment, growth or equity, inflation or
deflation]
vi. Methods to promote growth in the economy.

Business Management Criteria To Be Assessed:

Criterion A: Knowing and understanding
Criterion C: Communicating
Concept and content:
Chapter 17 – Production of Goods and Services
Chapter 18 – Costs, Scale of production and Break Even
Chapter 19 – Achieving Quality Production
Chapter 20 – Location Decision
Art ePortfolio Submission Date: 15th Sep 2022
Criteria To Be Assessed:
Criteria A – Knowing and Understanding
Criteria B – Developing Skills

Concept: Key concept – Identity

Related Concept – Boundaries
Subject specific content: Identities and Relationships

 Research on Human Nature and the Human Condition as represented in Art

 Technique/skills improvement –Portraiture Art

Music ePortfolio Submission Date: 15th Sep 2022

Criteria To Be Assessed:
Criterion A: Knowing and Understanding

Criterion B: Developing skills

Concept and content:

Key concept – Creativity
Related concept - Composition
In the unit ‘Rhythms of the world (world music)’ learners have investigated the chosen rhythm from around the world
Task 1. Submit the first draft of the adapted composition of the chosen rhythm studied from around the world.
Task 2. Analyse any song/music explaining the elements/ rhythms researched.
PHE E-Portfolio Submission Date: 16th Sep 2022
Criteria To Be Assessed:
Criterion A- Knowing and understanding
Criterion B- Planning for performance
Concept and content:
Key concept: Relationships
Related concept: Adaptation
GC: Globalization and sustainability: commonality and interconnection
-Health-& skill related components of fitness–
-SMART goals–Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-oriented.
-Nutrition for training (fuel)– carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
-FITT principle–Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type.
-Effective benchmark test administration process
-Principles of training– overload, progression.
-Compare and analysis results.
- Transfer of skills
Design ePortfolio Submission Date: 13th Sep 2022
Criteria To Be Assessed:
Criterion A- Inquiring & Analysing
Criterion B- Developing Ideas
Concept and content:
Key Concept: Systems
Related Concept: Adaptation, Function
In the unit entitled ‘Improving productivity through creativity’; the student produces an e-portfolio that follows the
design cycle to develop a solution (or range of solutions), which promotes productivity through creativity for a specific
client/target audience.

Task 1: Within Criterion A the student selects a target audience/client and will analyse and inquire into: the need for a
solution that targets local/community waste; primary and secondary research; existing solutions; a design brief which
reflects the analysis of their research with reference to the global context and statement of inquiry.

Task 2: Within Criterion B the student provides evidence of: a detailed design specification; a range of ideas or designs
that consider the specifications; the design chosen for development, along with justifications for its selection; accurate
and detailed drawings, diagrams and requirements.