Year 9: 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 75 minutes
The Analyst's Move: Voice, Symbol, Echo
From the unit Positioned: How Texts Get Inside Your Head
We are learning to analyse how voice, symbolism and intertextuality position readers — using the technique–evidence–effect move instead of retelling the text.
Start this lesson →Mathematics · about 50 minutes
Fractions That Stop, Fractions That Repeat
From the unit Real Numbers and the Limits of Measuring
We are learning to move both ways between fractions and decimals, including turning a recurring decimal back into an exact fraction, and to use that to define a rational number.
Start this lesson →Science · about 80 minutes
Detect, Compare, Correct: How Your Body Systems Work as One
From the unit Systems That Keep You Alive: From Your Bloodstream to the Carbon Cycle
We are learning to explain how body systems are coordinated to detect and respond to change, and to model that coordination as a negative feedback loop that keeps internal conditions stable.
Start this lesson →Humanities and Social Sciences · about 75 minutes
The World the Machines Made
From the unit The Machine Age: Steam, Storm and the Feeding of the World
We are learning why the industrial revolution began, how the factory system transformed work, childhood and cities, and how to read its primary sources — inquiry testimony and photographs — with a historian's discipline about what each source can and cannot prove.
Start this lesson →The Arts · about 65 minutes
Warm Body, Clear Space: What a Style's Techniques Communicate
From the unit Technique That Speaks: Dance Skills and Honest Reflection
We are learning to choose a style we can work in, to say what two or three of its techniques ask of the body and what each one communicates, and to warm up for those demands before recording a 30-second baseline phrase.
Start this lesson →Health and Physical Education · about 55 minutes
Force In, Force Out: Distance Versus Accuracy
From the unit Moving Smarter: Concepts That Travel to New Games
We are learning to explain how the force you produce and the force you absorb, the order your body parts move in, lever length and follow-through change the distance and accuracy of a throw and the feel of a catch.
Start this lesson →Technologies · about 60 minutes
Where Data Comes From and What Goes Wrong
From the unit Data You Can Trust: Collecting, Checking and Spotting Trends
We are learning to collect data from a survey, our own measurements and a published table, to record where each piece came from, and to name the errors each kind of source is prone to.
Start this lesson →Languages · about 75 minutes
If, When and Could: The Grammar of Arguments
From the unit Beyond the Sentence: Japanese That Carries an Argument
We are learning to build Japanese sentences that reach past one clause — stating what is possible with the potential form, and setting conditions with 〜たら and 〜ば — and to choose between the two conditionals on purpose rather than by luck.
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When you want the rest of Year 9
Every other lesson in Year 9, 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.