Everything you need to run the course.
A course pack is more than a syllabus — it's the full kit of artifacts a guide, parent, or micro-school operator uses to teach Biology well. Print what you need, adapt what you can, and lean on the rubrics to keep the bar consistent across every student.
For the student
The science of learning, made practical: retrieval practice, spacing, and why rereading wastes your time.
A one-page planner that builds spaced retrieval into the two-day rhythm automatically.
Safety, setup, and readiness — the thing every student runs through before an Experiment Day.
The structure of a real lab notebook — the thing students build, keep, and defend all year.
For the guide & parent
A plain-language walkthrough for students and parents: the rhythm, the demonstrations, and how mastery works.
Running more than one cohort: pacing, shared lab days, and keeping demonstrations manageable.
Microscopes, specimens, reagents, and consumables — what to buy and roughly what it costs.
Running real labs at home, safely: bench setup, chemicals, sharps and dissection, PPE, and disposal.
For rural families: the same course from a home bench, defended live over video. Roles, cadence, and kit.
A real week, a real rubric, a real notebook page, and a real defense — the actual materials.
Every print-ready packet in binder order — print the whole pack for a three-ring binder.
Who runs it, time, grades, safety, materials cost, dissection, remote — answered plainly.
Reference
The method, made operable
Mastery, not points: the three levels, why "not yet" recovers, and how it becomes a grade.
When a transcript needs an A–F: how the mastery record becomes a defensible letter grade — bundles, not averages.
Mastery and integration tell a student they can and where it connects. Wonder tells them why they'd bother.
A loop, not a line: falsification, the "No" branch, and drawing what you see — why a real lab is the point.
One per unit, plus the three demonstration rubrics. The shared bar for "mastered."
Encouraged vs. off-limits, plus a curated prompt library for studying with AI honestly.
The cross-domain playbook, with the Ghost Map written up as a worked example.