Year 12: 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 95 minutes
A Reading of Your Own
From the unit The Final Word: Your Reading, Your Voice, Your Essay Under Time
We are learning to build an independent critical interpretation — a contestable thesis about a literary text, argued from close textual evidence rather than received opinion.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 100 minutes
Scatterplots and the Story of r: Reading Data Honestly
From the unit The Decision Toolkit: Data, Dollars and Networks
We are learning to describe, quantify and question the relationship between two numerical variables — so we can use data as evidence without being fooled by it.
Start this lesson →Science · about 145 minutes
Counting What Is Actually There: Sampling, Richness and Diversity Indices
From the unit Biology Units 3–4, starter unit: Biodiversity, Heredity and the Investigation
We are learning to describe biodiversity in terms of richness and evenness, to design a sampling method that will not fool us, and to calculate and interpret a diversity index from data we collected ourselves.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 105 minutes
Populate or Perish: How Post-War Migration Remade the Nation
From the unit The Nation and the World: Australia's Modern Experience (Senior Starter)
We are learning how the post-1945 immigration program transformed Australian society, economy and identity — including the assimilation policy, the resistance the program met at the time, and the contested road from assimilation to multiculturalism.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 105 minutes
Art as Knowledge: From Personal Focus to Inquiry
From the unit The Body of Work, starter unit: Art as Knowledge, Art as Alternate
We are learning how Unit 3 turns a personal focus into a genuine inquiry — sharpening the focus until it can drive a body of work, interrogating it through the four contexts, and choosing a media approach that serves it.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 120 minutes
Problems Worth Solving: Digital Innovation, Fast Prototypes and Evidence Over Preference
From the unit Digital Solutions Units 3–4, starter unit: Innovation, Architecture and Impact
We are learning to identify a digital innovation opportunity that genuinely exists, scope it into testable requirements, prototype it fast enough to be wrong cheaply, and change the design because of evidence rather than because of what we liked.
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When you want the rest of Year 12
Every other lesson in Year 12, 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.