Physics
Objectives
The learning targets of this curriculum are categorised into three domains: knowledge and understanding, skills and processes, and values and attitudes. Through the learning
embodied in the curriculum, it is intended that students should reach the relevant learning targets.
Knowledge and Understanding
- Students are expected to:
- understand phenomena, facts and patterns, principles, concepts, laws, theories and models in physics;
- learn the vocabulary, terminology and conventions used in physics;
- acquire knowledge of techniques and skills specific to the study of physics; and
- develop an understanding of technological applications of physics and of their social implications.
Skills and Processes
(1) Scientific thinking
(2) Scientific investigation
(3) Practical work
(4) Problem-solving
(5) Decision-making
(6) Information handling
(7) Communication
(8) Collaboration
(9) Self-directed learning
Values and Attitudes
(1) towards themselves and others
(2) towards physics and the world we are living in
(3) towards learning as a lifelong process
