Year 6: 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 60 minutes
Two Sides, One Story
From the unit The Great Debate: Argue Both Sides, Win the Room
We are learning to compare two texts about the same issue — their claims, evidence and language choices — and to detect the bias in each.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 55 minutes
Building Rectangles From Tiles
From the unit What Numbers Are Made Of: Primes, Squares and Balanced Equations
We are learning to find every factor pair of a number by building rectangles, and to use the number of factors to decide whether a number is prime, composite or square.
Start this lesson →Science · about 60 minutes
Who Is Moving: the Sun or Us?
From the unit Earth on the Move: Day, Night and the Year
We are learning to use a torch and a ball to show how Earth's spin makes day and night and makes the sun seem to cross the sky, and to start a shadow log that measures what the sun is doing.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 55 minutes
The Deal of 1901: Six Colonies, One Nation
From the unit Federation to the Future
We are learning why and how six separate British colonies federated into the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, which ideas the Constitution borrowed from Britain and the United States, and who was left out of the deal.
Start this lesson →Health and Physical Education · about 70 minutes
Why Outside?
From the unit Into the Outdoors: Planning Active Days in Nature
We are learning to take part in active time in a natural setting, record how our body and mood feel before and after, and explain why being active outdoors is worth planning for.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 55 minutes
From Stimulus to Situation
From the unit Devise It: Building a Scene From an Idea
We are learning to use a stimulus to find several possible situations, and to choose one that has room for drama.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 60 minutes
Input, Process, Store, Output
From the unit Inside the Box
We are learning to describe the four jobs every digital system does, and to trace one task through the processor, memory, storage and output.
Start this lesson →Languages · about 70 minutes
Four Turns, Not One
From the unit Japanese: Keeping the Conversation Going
We are learning to keep a Japanese conversation alive past the first question — listening out loud with aizuchi, asking a follow-up, and agreeing or disagreeing politely — and to understand that the polite form is not decoration but grammar that encodes a relationship.
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When you want the rest of Year 6
Every other lesson in Year 6, 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.