Look inside the Chemistry pack.
No sign-up, no email required. Here is a real week, a real rubric, a real lab-notebook page, and a real demonstration — the actual materials, not a brochure. Every sample links to the full artifact it’s drawn from.
One week, two days at the bench.
The course runs on a two-day pulse — about two hours a day, across roughly 32 weeks. Here is week one of Unit 1 — Atomic Structure & the Periodic Table: the student sees the light an atom emits before a single electron configuration is memorized.
- Subatomic particles & isotopes
- Electron configuration
- Periodic trends: size, pull, reactivity
- Clean flame-test technique
- Emission spectra through a spectroscope
- Colors → electron transitions
How “mastered” is actually judged.
Every skill is scored at one of three levels against a published bar — no points, no curve. Here is one criterion from the Unit 1 rubric — lab technique: flame tests & spectra — shown exactly the way a parent or guide reads it:
| Level | What it looks like — “Flame tests / spectra” |
|---|---|
| Developing | Skips or contaminates the flame-test loop. |
| Proficient | Runs the test but misassigns colors to elements. |
| Mastery | Performs clean flame tests, links emission colors to electron transitions, and identifies an unknown salt. |
Browse the full rubric set → · How this becomes an A–F grade →
The artifact a student builds, keeps, and defends.
The lab notebook isn’t busywork — it’s the primary record, kept in pen at the bench and defended out loud. Here is one real Experiment Day, every section kept live — note the struck-through margin note and the honest sources of error.
| Trial | NaOH used (mL) |
|---|---|
| 1 (overshot) | 17.4 |
| 2 | 16.4 |
| 3 | 16.5 |
- Dated & titled entries
- A testable question & hypothesis
- Units on every number
- Significant figures, honestly reported
- Calculations shown by hand, not just answers
- Pen at the bench — struck, not erased
- Error analysis with direction & size
The moment that can’t be faked.
Three times a year, a student performs and defends a demonstration — standing with their own work and reasoning aloud while an adult asks unscripted follow-ups. In the acid–base titration defense, they titrate to a clean endpoint and account for technique, indicator choice, and the molarity math on the spot.
“I titrated 10 mL of vinegar with 0.500 M NaOH to the first lasting pink — 16.45 mL. That’s 8.2×10⁻³ moles of base, so the same moles of acetic acid, which gives 0.82 M. I chose phenolphthalein because a weak acid against a strong base has its equivalence point on the basic side, right where phenolphthalein turns.”
A passing answer from the titration defense — reading from the real endpoint and reasoning through the chemistry, not reciting a formula.
The whole pack, ready for a binder.
Everything here is on the web to read — and every rubric, checklist, and guide also has a print-ready packet version, formatted 8.5×11 for a clipboard or a three-ring binder. You assemble the student’s binder from the pack itself; there’s nothing else to buy to hold it in your hands. We’ve put them all in binder order on one page: Assemble the Chemistry binder →
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The whole Chemistry pack is open to read and print. Open it and begin, or ask us a question first — a real person answers.