Year 7: 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 Genre Contract
From the unit Shape-Shifters: One Story, a Thousand Tellings
We are learning to identify the conventions that define a genre, explain the contract they make with the reader, and transform one event across genres on purpose.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 50 minutes
Powers of Ten: What Place Value Has Been Saying All Along
From the unit Inside a Number: Powers of Ten, Primes and Squares
We are learning to write natural numbers in expanded notation using powers of ten, and to connect each exponent to a place-value column.
Start this lesson →Science · about 60 minutes
Too small to see: the evidence for particles
From the unit What Everything Is Made Of: Particles on the Move
We are learning to use observations as evidence for a model of matter made of tiny moving particles with empty space between them.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 65 minutes
The Time Detective's Toolkit — and 65,000 Years Under Your Feet
From the unit How We Know: Ancient Worlds, Water and the First Markets
We are learning what historians and archaeologists count as evidence — primary and secondary sources, artefacts, layers and dating — and using that toolkit on the deepest human history on Earth: Australia's.
Start this lesson →Health and Physical Education · about 70 minutes
Run the Experiment on Yourself: Sleep, Movement and Mood
From the unit Becoming You: Health, Identity and Respect in the Year Everything Shifts
You are learning to describe sleep, movement and mood as one connected system, and to design and run a real experiment on your own routine using evidence rather than guesswork.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 80 minutes
Four Rooms: The Studio Sampler and Your Election
From the unit Elect Your Form
We are learning to sample four art forms through short genuine briefs, to notice what each form is actually made of, and to elect a major and a minor on evidence rather than on a hunch about talent.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 85 minutes
Test It, Don't Guess It: Properties of Everyday Materials
From the unit Choosing Materials That Do the Job
We are learning to run fair tests on everyday materials and record the results in a properties table that we can use as evidence when we choose materials.
Start this lesson →Languages · about 65 minutes
Sentences That Hold Hands: Soshite, Sorekara, Demo, Dakara
From the unit Tsunagaru — Sentences That Hold Hands: Connected Texts and Conversations in Japanese
We are learning to turn separate Japanese sentences into connected text — choosing the right connector for the relationship between ideas, dropping information that is already obvious, and reading four new kanji by their parts.
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When you want the rest of Year 7
Every other lesson in Year 7, 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.