Year 8: 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
First Pages: Predicting, Questioning and Connecting
From the unit Reading a Novel Closely
We are learning to make a novel's first pages work for us: predicting from evidence, asking genuine questions and making connections that deepen understanding.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 55 minutes
What an Exponent Really Says
From the unit Powers: The Shorthand for Repeated Multiplication
We are learning to read, write and expand powers, and to explain why the base and the exponent do different jobs.
Start this lesson →Science · about 65 minutes
Is It Alive? Cells as the Unit of Life
From the unit Small on Purpose: Cells and What Their Parts Do
We are learning to describe the cell as the smallest unit that carries out all the processes of life, and to tell single-celled organisms from many-celled ones using evidence.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 60 minutes
Reading the Middle Ages: Castles, Chronicles and the Mud-and-Misery Myth
From the unit Worlds in Motion
We are learning to analyse medieval primary sources — chronicles, manuscript art and castles as built evidence — to explain how land, power and obligation were organised in feudal societies, and to test the popular claim that the Middle Ages were nothing but mud and misery.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 65 minutes
Where the Tension Lives
From the unit Hold the Tension
We are learning to map where the tension rises and releases in a scene, and to name the elements of drama and conventions that create it.
Start this lesson →Health and Physical Education · about 85 minutes
How Bodies Actually Change: FITT, Overload and the Baseline You Take Today
From the unit Train Smart, Decide Smart: Training Principles, Risk and the Calls You Make Fast
You are learning to explain the training principles that govern how bodies adapt, and to apply them to your own body by setting measurable performance goals and taking a proper baseline.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 65 minutes
Cut It Up and Send It: Packets and Addresses
From the unit How Messages Cross the World and Stay Private
We are learning to explain how a message is split into numbered, addressed packets, routed by different paths, and reassembled, with lost packets sent again.
Start this lesson →Languages · about 70 minutes
Mukashi Mukashi: Telling What Happened
From the unit Story and Stance: Telling It and Meaning It in Japanese
We are learning to tell a short story in Japanese using the polite past tense across verbs, adjectives and nouns, and to hold the story together with time and sequencing expressions — while reading how Japanese storytelling traditions structure a tale.
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When you want the rest of Year 8
Every other lesson in Year 8, 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.