Year 5: 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 55 minutes
The Character Files
From the unit Between the Lines: How Stories Work On You
We are learning to infer what a character is like from evidence in the text, and to back every claim we make with that evidence.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 60 minutes
Building Rectangles from Tiles
From the unit Factors, Multiples and Number Patterns
We are learning to express a whole number as a product of its factors by finding every rectangle that number of tiles can make.
Start this lesson →Science · about 55 minutes
Straight Shooters: How Light Travels (and the Ghost Coin)
From the unit Light Detectives: Shadows, Mirrors and Bending Beams
We are learning to identify sources of light, to explain that light travels from a source in straight lines, and to describe how shadows are formed when that path is blocked.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 55 minutes
Why Here? Thinking Like a Colony Planner
From the unit Gold, Grit and the Vote
We are learning why British colonies multiplied across Australia after 1800 — the economic, political and social engines driving them — why they grew exactly where they did, and the honest truth that every chosen site was already First Nations Country.
Start this lesson →Health and Physical Education · about 65 minutes
Your Body's Dashboard: Puffed, Pumped and Reading the Gauges
From the unit Game On: Strong Bodies, Fair Players, Safe Choices
We are learning to read our body's signals during exercise — heart rate, breathing and muscle feel — to explain what fitness really is, and to tell the difference between working hard and getting hurt.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 50 minutes
Role, Voice and Movement
From the unit Who Are You Now? Character, Tension and Space
We are learning to build a character by choosing posture, walking pace and voice on purpose, and to find out more about a role by answering questions in role.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 55 minutes
One Key for Every Door?
From the unit Keys, Footprints and Who Gets to See
We are learning to explain why using the same password for many accounts is risky, using a model of doors and keys.
Start this lesson →Languages · about 65 minutes
Ōkii, Chiisai: Words That Describe
From the unit Watashi no Sekai: My World in Japanese
We are learning to describe things in Japanese with i-adjectives — in front of a noun and at the end of a sentence with desu — to say them accurately using beat spelling with correct long vowels, and to read and write the na- and ha- rows of hiragana.
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When you want the rest of Year 5
Every other lesson in Year 5, 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.