Year 10: lessons open to try
The first lesson of each learning area is open to try, in full, with no account. Sit beside your learner for one and see how ParkSyde teaches: a worked example first, then practice with help, a quick check, and their own task to finish.
English · about 80 minutes
Reading Against the Grain
From the unit Texts in Conversation: Read Critically, Compare Deeply, Write Ready
We are learning to read texts critically — auditing whose voices are present and absent, identifying whose interests a text serves, and producing both a dominant and a resistant reading.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 60 minutes
Counting Factors: Exponent Laws with Variables
From the unit Taking Algebra Apart and Putting It Back Together
We are learning to derive and apply the exponent laws for variables by counting factors, including zero and negative exponents.
Start this lesson →Science · about 95 minutes
The Code and the Filter: DNA, Inheritance and Natural Selection
From the unit Patterns That Explain Everything: Genes, Elements, Motion and the Universe
We are learning to explain how DNA and genes carry heritable information, to predict inheritance patterns with models, and to explain how populations — never individuals — change over generations through natural selection acting on heritable variation.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 80 minutes
1942: Kokoda, Darwin and the Home Front
From the unit Turning Points
We are learning what the documented record shows about Australia's war in 1942 — Singapore, Darwin, Kokoda and the home front — and how to handle a genuine historians' debate: was Australia actually facing invasion, and does the answer change what Kokoda means?
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 70 minutes
Protocols First: How to Watch, Listen and Talk About This Work
From the unit Who We Are, Told by First Nations Artists: Dance, Drama, Music and Screen
We are learning the cultural protocols around First Nations arts (Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property, cultural warnings, and why culturally owned stories, songs, dances and designs are not ours to reproduce) and how to choose, view and talk about work in dance, drama, music and screen in line with them.
Start this lesson →Health and Physical Education · about 90 minutes
Principles Before Plays
From the unit Game Plans: Creating and Refining Strategy
We are learning to identify the attacking and defending principles shared by invasion, net and wall, striking and fielding, and target games, and to link each principle to the movement concept that makes it work.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 70 minutes
Three Layers of Every Document
From the unit Behind the Page: Markup, Styling and Squeezing Data Small
We are learning to take any printed or online document apart into its three layers, content, structure and presentation, and to explain what would be lost if a reader or a machine could see only the words.
Start this lesson →Languages · about 90 minutes
Every Verb You Own
From the unit Kakehashi — The Bridge Year (Japanese)
We are learning to consolidate the whole Japanese verb system — three groups, one shared family of forms — and to join ideas into complex sentences, while meeting the passive and causative honestly at recognition level.
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When you want the rest of Year 10
Every other lesson in Year 10, and the learning record for your registration, come with a plan. A family's first plan starts with a week to try it, and nothing is charged until day 8.