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An IB DP Physics skill pack on tables, charts and graphs (SL and HL, first assessment 2025): six worked examples, eight figures and 30 answered questions.

This pack drills the steps that Paper 1B and the internal assessment mark again and again. The IB guide wants these steps taught inside the topics that need them. So this pack supports topic teaching. It is not a unit of the course.

This pack is worked, not taught. The 250 minutes it takes is student working time, not teaching time. Split it into five sittings. The worksheet marks each place to stop.

What students learn:

  • Building the table: quantity / unit headings, raw columns to the instrument’s precision, processed columns to the figures the readings support, a worked calculation and observations beside it
  • Choosing the chart: continuous or discrete, then bar, pie, histogram, scatter, or line and curve
  • Setting up the axes: 1, 2 or 5 units per large square, readings filling at least half of each axis, and when to start at zero
  • Plotting and fitting: to better than half a small square, one line or smooth curve of best fit, never a dot-to-dot, and the anomalous point
  • Reading the graph: interpolating, extrapolating, when to trust an extrapolation, and describing the trend

Practice A: seven fluency items (six drill tables, 47 rows) and 62 answers. Practice B: ten applied items, 32 lettered parts. Practice C: four multiple-choice items, every option explained, and three structured questions worth 33 marks.

IB skills (Tool 3: Mathematics, with Inquiry 2). Taught: building tables and graphs, and choosing charts; extrapolating and interpolating; telling continuous from discrete variables. Practised: plotting with scales and axes, best-fit lines and curves, graph features, significant figures, SI prefixes, describing trends, reading graphs and charts, qualitative observations.

What’s included:

  • Student Worksheet, 41 pages, answers removed, colour and B&W
  • Teacher Key, 53 pages, every answer, the model graph on each grid, teaching notes
  • The editable worksheet, a self-contained HTML file

Worksheet and key come from one source file, so they always agree. Grades 11-12 (ages 16-19).

Part of the IB DP Physics IA and Paper 1B Skills Bundle, 30% off buying the packs separately.

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Updated 29 Oct 2026: please reprint.
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IB DP Physics (2025) IA and Paper 1B Skills Bundle

IB DP Physics skills bundle for the internal assessment and Paper 1B, SL and HL, first assessment 2025: nine skill packs, 30% off buying them separately. The internal assessment is 24 marks and 20% of the course; Paper 1B is the data-based questions, 20 marks at SL and at HL. This bundle is one investigation, design to evaluation. **What's in the bundle, in working order** - Designing the Investigation: research question, variables, method, safety (IA Criterion 1) - Significant Figures and Rounding: the number to the right figures (free) - The Units of a Quantity: SI base and derived units, homogeneity checks (free) - Uncertainties: recording a range, propagating it, percentage error - Tables, Charts and Graphs: the results table, the plot, the line of best fit - Proportionality and Scaling: the relationship read off the data, power known - Log Scales and Power Laws: logarithmic axes, the power off a log-log gradient - Uncertainties on a Graph: bars, extreme lines, gradient and intercept uncertainty - Concluding and Evaluating: the conclusion and the evaluation (IA Criteria 3 and 4) Between them the nine reach all four IA criteria: Research design, Data analysis, Conclusion and Evaluation. Log Scales and Power Laws takes the case Proportionality and Scaling stops short of: the exponent is unknown. It also straightens an exponential relationship on a semi-log graph. **What this bundle is, and what it is not** The IB asks these skills to be practised inside the topics that need them, so no pack here is a taught unit of the course: it is reference, remedial and revision material that supplements integrated teaching. The packs are worked, not taught: the 36 hours across the nine is student working time, not classroom delivery time. Every pack carries a student worksheet with the answers stripped out, a teacher key with every item answered from the same source so no answer file can drift, and the editable worksheet as a self-contained HTML file, in colour and black-and-white PDF. 297 student pages and 412 teacher pages across the nine. IB skills in the study of physics, mostly Tool 3: Mathematics with Inquiry 1, 2 and 3: significant figures, SI units, uncertainty propagation, plotting and best-fit lines, linearizing, logarithmic scales, extreme gradients, methodology and safety, concluding and evaluating. Every pack opens in any browser, nothing to install. SI units, IB notation and IB command terms throughout. Two of the nine are free, so a pack can be worked before buying. Grades 11-12 (ages 16-19). **Also in the catalogue, sold separately:** - [Measuring the Acceleration of Free Fall, a worked investigation to practise on (free)](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13516788) - [Unit Conversion, raw readings into SI before processing (free)](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13537341) *A rating helps other teachers find this.*

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