Look inside the Human Anatomy 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 under the microscope.
The course runs on a two-day pulse — about two hours a day, across roughly 32 weeks. Here is week one of Unit 1 — Cells, Tissues & the Body Plan: the student brings tissue into focus for real before a single structure is memorized.
- The four primary tissue types
- Anatomical position, planes & terms
- Reading: Vesalius & evidence-based anatomy
- Focus a prepared slide
- Classify the tissue type
- Defend the ID with two features
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 Cells, Tissues & the Body Plan rubric — lab technique: histology slide ID — shown exactly the way a parent or guide reads it:
| Level | What it looks like — “Focus & classify a tissue slide” |
|---|---|
| Developing | Skips microscope setup or cannot bring a prepared slide into focus. |
| Proficient | Focuses a slide and names a tissue type but cannot point to the features that justify the call. |
| Mastery | Focuses a prepared slide, classifies the tissue into one of the four types, and defends the ID with two visible distinguishing features. |
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 day at the bench, every section kept live — note the struck-through slip and the honest sources of error.
| Time | Pulse (bpm) |
|---|---|
| rest | 68 |
| right after | 132 |
| +1 min | 104 |
| +2 min | 84 |
| +3 min | 72 |
- Dated & titled entries
- A testable question & hypothesis
- Units on every number
- Significant figures, honestly reported
- Calculations shown, not just answers
- Pen in real time — 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 anatomy identification defense, they locate structures on a model or specimen and defend each structure–function relationship out loud.
“This is the tricuspid valve, between the right atrium and right ventricle. It snaps shut when the ventricle contracts, so blood is pushed out to the lungs instead of leaking back into the atrium.”
A passing answer from the anatomy identification defense — naming the structure and defending its function, not reciting a label.
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 Human Anatomy binder →
Seen enough to start?
The whole Human Anatomy pack is open to read and print. Open it and begin, or ask us a question first — a real person answers.