15/15 weeks ready · Follows the order of the Egyptian Ministry of Education and Technical Education textbook Science (Discover and Learn), Third Preparatory Year (Grade 9), Term 1 (English and Arabic editions, 2026–2027, four units). All explanations, exercises and quizzes are Darslab’s own.
Term 1Unit 1 Chemical Reactions and Their Environmental Impacts (Lesson 1 Types of Chemical Reactions, Lesson 2 Combustion Reactions and Environmental Pollution, Lesson 3 Smoking and Its Hazards); Unit 2 Electricity and Magnetism (Lesson 1 Electric Current, Lesson 2 Electric Circuits, Lesson 3 Electric and Magnetic Forces); Unit 3 Variation of Traits in Living Organisms (Lesson 1 Heredity and Variation of Traits, Lesson 2 Natural Selection and Artificial Selection); Unit 4 Dating Planet Earth (Lesson 1 The Fossil Record, Lesson 2 Geologic Time); Term 1 review
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Types of reactions and the reactivity series (A) Unit 1 Chemical Reactions and Their Environmental Impacts, opener; Lesson 1 Types of Chemical Reactions (A): direct combination, decomposition, metals with oxygen, acids and water, the chemical reactivity series
Types of reactions (B): swapping partners and electrons Lesson 1 Types of Chemical Reactions (B): double replacement, neutralisation and the universal indicator, acid with a salt, precipitation, hard water, oxidation and reduction as electron transfer
Combustion (A): fire, oxides and methane Lesson 2 Combustion Reactions and Environmental Pollution (A): the fire triangle, ignition point and flammability, matchsticks, burning of metals and non-metals, complete and incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons
Combustion (B): flames, products and cleaner air Lesson 2 Combustion Reactions and Environmental Pollution (B): flame colour, detecting the products, properties of combustion products, the black cloud, car exhaust, industry, catalytic converters and scrubbers
Smoking and its hazards Lesson 3 Smoking and Its Hazards: what tobacco and its smoke contain, effects on the body, types of smoking, active and passive exposure, damage to the environment, how to say no
Electric current (A): charge, current and voltage Unit 2 Electricity and Magnetism, opener; Lesson 1 Electric Current (A): free electrons and current, current intensity (I = Q/t), potential difference, electromotive force
Electric current (B): cells, resistance and symbols Lesson 1 Electric Current (B): cells in series and in parallel, electric resistance, fixed and variable resistors, the factors that affect resistance, circuit symbols
Heredity (A): genes, alleles and Mendel’s first law Unit 3 Variation of Traits in Living Organisms, opener; Lesson 1 Heredity and Variation of Traits (A): DNA, genes and chromosomes, alleles, dominant and recessive, genotype and phenotype, Mendel's first law, the Punnett square
Heredity (B): two traits, carriers and counselling Lesson 1 Heredity and Variation of Traits (B): Mendel's second law (9 : 3 : 3 : 1), genetic diversity, inherited diseases and carriers, marriage between close relatives, screening and counselling
Populations, natural selection and breeding Lesson 2 Natural Selection and Artificial Selection: populations and their growth, carrying capacity, environmental and genetic factors, natural selection, artificial selection and its techniques
Fossils and the diversity of life Unit 4 Dating Planet Earth, opener; Lesson 1 The Fossil Record: how fossils form and their types, the fossil record, mass extinction, evolutionary relationships, past environments, why life forms differ, comparative anatomy
Earth’s history: time scale, layers and half-life Lesson 2 Geologic Time: the rock record, the geologic time scale, timeline of Earth's history, reading rock layers, relative age (superposition, index fossils), absolute age (half-life)
The Egyptian Ministry of Education and Technical Education (MOETE) is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, Darslab. Lessons follow the order of the Ministry’s textbooks; all explanations, exercises and quizzes are Darslab’s own. Pictures of animals, plants and objects: Twemoji, CC BY 4.0.
