# Year 8 optional five-area menu · Term 1 Weeks 3–4 · Days 11–20

Fifty **distinct 12-minute blocks** extend the first month: ten each in [Science](SCIENCE.md), [HASS](HASS.md), [HPE](HPE.md), [Technologies](TECHNOLOGIES.md) and [The Arts](ARTS.md). HASS samples Geography, History, Civics and Economics; Arts has two blocks each for Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts. [Fifty additional context swaps](ALTERNATIVE-CONTEXTS.md) offer another life-domain example for every subject/day. This is **optional supplementary practice**, not the full weekly subject allocation, full Year 8 curriculum or local jurisdiction's sequence. The Year 8 English/mathematics and integrated Weeks 3–4 packs are separate.

## Use one block today

1. Pick today's subject and prepare its ordinary safe kit from the teacher menu. Its stages are **0–2, 2–4, 4–10 and 10–12 minutes**. Follow local equipment, safeguarding, privacy and consent rules. The fictional cases can be adapted by changing a context while preserving the underlying evidence question.
2. Give the [clean learner page](LEARNER-COPY.md) and a relevant original [A4 print or text/tactile aid](#print-and-access). Each day has three meaningful switchable routes and an optional no-cost home extension. Do not sort learners into fixed “learning styles”; note what action or reasoning was actually demonstrated.
3. On Days 15 and 20, release only the chosen subject's [new-case check](ASSESSMENT.md), collect a first independent response and use the [teacher answers/next moves](TEACHER-KEY.md) after collecting the response. Both files are publicly accessible here; these are formative checks, not secure tests. Change a case locally if prior access matters. Read-aloud, AAC, large print, tactile cards and exact-word transcription may support access; distinguish them from content coaching.
4. Before local adoption, consult [all 67 exact ACARA rows and scope boundaries](CURRICULUM-CROSSWALK.md), [source/rights ledger](SOURCE-AND-RIGHTS.md) and [desk review](QA-RUN-THROUGH.md). Run [the local verifier](verify_pack.py) and refresh [hashes](manifest.json) after editing.

## Print and access

Six original A4 SVG/PDF aids have selectable text and full [plain-text/tactile equivalents](print/TEXT-ALTERNATIVES.md): [inquiry evidence](print/inquiry-mat.pdf), [HASS source grid](print/source-grid.pdf), [HPE movement/access](print/access-movement-mat.pdf), [design/data decisions](print/design-data-mat.pdf), [Arts process](print/arts-process-page.pdf) and [binary/nested branch](print/binary-branch-grid.pdf). Music has an optional [original quiet layered pulse](audio/layered-pulse.wav) and complete [silent/tactile eight-beat score](audio/TEXT-ALTERNATIVE.md). Digital Technologies has an [offline Python debug starter](code/light_sample_flag.py) using **fictional, nonpersonal scores** and no network. The code never controls a real device.

## Honest evidence boundary

A source table, model, score, movement plan or storyboard is not automatically an observation, performance or completed design. The menus identify conditional actions. All new-case probes are formative and unvalidated. Source checks, arithmetic, PDF rendering, code traces and simulated teacher/learner/funder use were done at a desk; there is **no classroom pilot, learning-outcome study, accessibility user trial, state sign-off or certified translation**. The real school must review local syllabus, access, consent and equipment before use.

Original SubjectNest teaching material and assets © NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd 2026, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with attribution and changes indicated. Python code is [Apache-2.0](CODE-LICENSE.txt); ACARA and embedded fonts retain separate rights. See the [source ledger](SOURCE-AND-RIGHTS.md).