My son used to think physics was “just formulas and memorization”—now he’s spending weekends building a solar-powered toy car for his MYP Design & Physics cross-disciplinary project. His IB physics teacher (a Canadian educator with 10 years of lab teaching experience) never just lectures: When they learned about circuits, he had students troubleshoot broken flashlights instead of doing worksheets; when covering forces, they built mini-bridges with popsicle sticks to test load capacity. When my son got stuck on calculating the car’s energy efficiency, the teacher sat with him to re-run experiments (instead of giving the answer) — by the end, he not only solved the problem but asked, “Can we test this with a different solar panel?” Physics went from his worst subject to his favorite.