Summary

The MS Word document comprises Grade 10 Physics Lesson Plans Term 1 2026.
The PDF version is also available upon your request.

🗓️ Lesson Plan Structure

• Duration: 13 weeks

• Mid-Term Break: Week 8

• End-of-Term Assessments: Weeks 12 and 13

• Lessons per Week: 4

• Curriculum Alignment: KICD-approved CBE (Competency-Based Education) curriculum

📚 Covered Strands, Sub-Strands, and Topics

🔷 Strand 1.0: Mechanics and Thermal Physics

🔹 Sub Strand 1.1: Introduction to Physics

• Meaning of Physics as a body of knowledge

• Main branches of Physics

• Importance of Physics in day-to-day life

• Relationship between Physics and other fields of study

• Career opportunities in the field of Physics

• Creation of career charts

🔹 Sub Strand 1.2: Pressure

• Description of atmospheric pressure

• Demonstrating the existence of atmospheric pressure

• Effect of density on pressure in fluids

• Effect of depth on pressure in fluids

• Derivation of the equation P = pgh

• Application of P = pgh to determine pressure

• Transmission of pressure in fluids (Pascal’s Principle)

• Hydraulic systems:

  • Hydraulic Brakes

  • Hydraulic Jacks

• Solving numerical problems on hydraulic systems

🔹 Sub Strand 1.3: Archimedes’ Principle

• Definition of buoyancy and Archimedes’ principle

• Verification of Archimedes’ principle by experiment

• Applications:

  • Ships and Submarines

  • Floating and Buoyancy conditions

  • Hot air balloons

  • Life jackets

🔹 Sub Strand 1.3: Mechanical Properties of Materials

• Importance of mechanical properties in day-to-day life

🔹 Sub Strand 1.4: Temperature and Thermal Expansion

• Definition of thermal expansion

• Factors affecting linear expansion

• Experiment to demonstrate linear expansion of solids

• Determining linear expansivity (alpha) of a solid

• Factors affecting volume expansion

• Solving numerical problems on linear expansivity

• Meaning of temperature and its units

• Measuring temperature using liquid expansion devices

• Temperature measurement using bimetallic devices and thermocouples

• Advanced temperature measurement technologies:

  • RTDs

  • Thermistors

  • Infrared

• Investigating thermal expansion in solids (Ball and Ring experiment)

• Investigating thermal expansion in fluids

• Anomalous expansion of water

• Applications:

  • Thermostats

  • Construction (railways, bridges, power lines)

📝 Strand Assessments

🔸 Sub Strand: End of Term Assessment

• Administration of End of Term 1 Exams