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Mastery rubrics.
One rubric per unit, plus the three demonstration rubrics. Every rubric uses the same three levels — Not yet, Approaching, Mastered — so the bar is identical for every student.
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How the rubrics work
The grading philosophy behind every rubric — decisions not points, a vocabulary published in advance, three tokens that absorb a bad day, and how unit mastery becomes a letter grade.
Unit rubrics
A mastery rubric for each of the eight units. Each one names exactly what a student must be able to do — not how many points they earned — to reach Mastered.
Unit 01
Body Systems & Wellness Basics
The major body systems, how they work together, and reading your own baseline data neutrally.
Unit 02
Nutrients & the Science of Food
Macronutrients and micronutrients, what each does in the body, and food-nutrient testing.
Unit 03
Digestion, Metabolism & Energy Balance
How the body extracts energy from food, and the calorie as a unit of energy the body needs.
Unit 04
Building a Healthy Diet
Reading nutrition labels and ingredient lists, and planning balanced meals from evidence.
Unit 05
Physical Fitness & Exercise Science
Components of fitness, heart-rate recovery, and measuring function with data — never looks.
Unit 06
Mental Health & Stress
The stress response, sleep, and self-tracking as data — supportive, and pointing to trusted adults.
Unit 07
Disease, Immunity & Prevention
How the immune system works, how diseases spread, and evidence-based prevention.
Unit 08
Health Decisions, Media & Consumer Science
Reading health claims critically, correlation vs. causation, and marketing vs. evidence.
Demonstration rubrics
The three live demonstrations a student defends in person. These are the AI-proof assessments — you can't paste your way through any of them.
Demonstration
Nutrition-analysis defense
Defending an evidence-based recommendation after analyzing a real diet or food with data.
Demonstration
Timed label-and-data reading
Reading nutrition labels and health data under time pressure, separating science from marketing.
Demonstration
Lab-notebook defense
Standing behind your recorded methods, data, and reasoning out loud.