Learning map Physics

How to read the map

Grade ↓ · Strand →	Energy 0 of 19 building blocks practised	Electricity 21 of 39 building blocks practised	Mechanics 0 of 15 building blocks practised	Electromagnetic radiation 0 of 22 building blocks practised	Ionising radiation 0 of 13 building blocks practised
Grade 5/6		Simple circuit (an app practises it) Conductors and insulators (an app practises it) Voltage sources (gap, no app yet) Switches (an app practises it) Circuit symbols and diagrams (an app practises it) Series circuit (an app practises it) Parallel circuit (an app practises it) Heating effect of current (an app practises it) Lighting effect of current (an app practises it) Dangers of electricity (an app practises it) Electrical safety (an app practises it) Permanent magnets (gap, no app yet) Domain model of magnetism (gap, no app yet) Magnetic field lines (gap, no app yet) Earth’s magnetic field and compass (gap, no app yet)	Measuring distance and time (gap, no app yet) Mass (gap, no app yet)	Measuring temperature (gap, no app yet) Rectilinear propagation of light (gap, no app yet) Light sources and seeing (gap, no app yet) Shadows (gap, no app yet) Scattering (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8	Thermal energy and temperature (gap, no app yet)	Magnetic effect of current (an app practises it) Electric current (an app practises it) Measuring current (an app practises it) Voltage (an app practises it) Measuring voltage (an app practises it)	Speed (gap, no app yet) Calculating speed (gap, no app yet)	Phases of the Moon (gap, no app yet) Solar and lunar eclipses (gap, no app yet) Limits of perception (gap, no app yet) Absorption, emission, transmission (gap, no app yet) Reflection (gap, no app yet) Refraction (gap, no app yet) Total internal reflection and optical fibres (gap, no app yet) Image formation by a converging lens (gap, no app yet) The eye and vision aids (gap, no app yet) Colour and dispersion (gap, no app yet)
Grade 9/10	Forms of energy (gap, no app yet) Energy and the joule (gap, no app yet) Potential and kinetic energy (gap, no app yet) Calculating potential energy (gap, no app yet) Calculating kinetic energy (gap, no app yet) Heat transfer (gap, no app yet) Energy conversion (gap, no app yet) Energy transfer (gap, no app yet) Conservation of energy (gap, no app yet) Energy dissipation (gap, no app yet) Energy balance (gap, no app yet) Power (gap, no app yet) Calculating power (gap, no app yet) Efficiency (gap, no app yet) Energy storage (gap, no app yet) Energy sources (gap, no app yet) Types of power station (gap, no app yet) Sustainable energy supply (gap, no app yet)	Electric charge (gap, no app yet) Electrostatic phenomena (gap, no app yet) Current as flow of charge (gap, no app yet) Electrical resistance (an app practises it) Resistance of a wire (an app practises it) Ohm’s law (an app practises it) Calculations with Ohm’s law (an app practises it) Current and voltage in series circuits (an app practises it) Current and voltage in parallel circuits (an app practises it) Total resistance (gap, no app yet) Electrical power (gap, no app yet) Electrical energy (gap, no app yet) Fuses in the home (gap, no app yet) Magnetic field of a coil (gap, no app yet) Electric motor (gap, no app yet) Electromagnetic induction (gap, no app yet) Generator (gap, no app yet) Transformer (gap, no app yet) Electricity supply (gap, no app yet)	Changes in motion (gap, no app yet) Motion graphs (gap, no app yet) Effects of forces (gap, no app yet) Representing and measuring forces (gap, no app yet) Newton’s third law (gap, no app yet) Friction (gap, no app yet) Combining forces (gap, no app yet) Force and change in velocity (gap, no app yet) Law of inertia (gap, no app yet) Mass and weight (gap, no app yet) Calculating weight (gap, no app yet)	Thermal radiation (gap, no app yet) Wavelength (gap, no app yet) Electromagnetic spectrum (gap, no app yet) Mobile phone radiation and X-rays (gap, no app yet) Earth’s radiation budget (gap, no app yet) Greenhouse effect (gap, no app yet) Tipping points in the climate system (gap, no app yet)	Structure of the atom (gap, no app yet) Radioactivity (gap, no app yet) Types of radiation (gap, no app yet) Activity and count rate (gap, no app yet) Random nuclear decay (gap, no app yet) Half-life (gap, no app yet) Half-life calculations (gap, no app yet) Shielding ionising radiation (gap, no app yet) Biological effects and radiation protection (gap, no app yet) Radiation in medicine (gap, no app yet) Nuclear fission (gap, no app yet) Nuclear fusion (gap, no app yet) Storage of radioactive waste (gap, no app yet)

Click a building block to see what it builds on, when it is taught and which app practises it.

Strands and building blocks come from: KMK, Weiterentwickelte Bildungsstandards in den Naturwissenschaften für das Fach Physik (MSA), Beschluss vom 16.12.2004 i.d.F. vom 13.06.2024 · The map as data (JSON)

How to read the map

Strand · a column: A part of the subject that runs over several school years.
Building block · a box: One thing a child can learn: “I can …”.
Grade band · a row: Roughly when a building block is taught. Choose a curriculum to see its grades.
App · the colour: Blue means covered: an app practises the building block. Dashed means a gap: no app practises it yet.

You see the grade band: roughly in which two school years a building block is taught. Each German state sets this a little differently. Choose a curriculum, and the map sorts the building blocks by its grades.

Not captured yet: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia

All terms and how they belong together · Why this method?