Teaching examples, not student testimonials. The sample week, model notebook, and demonstration prompts illustrate the intended learning process; they do not report an enrolled student's results. Current program status and next steps.
Look inside the Physical Science pack.
No sign-up, no email required. Here is a sample week, a real rubric, a model lab-notebook entry, and a sample demonstration. These are the materials themselves, not a brochure. Every sample links to the full artifact it’s drawn from.
One week, two days at the bench.
The course meets two days a week for about two hours a day, across roughly 32 weeks. Here is week one of Unit 1 — Matter & Its Properties: the student measures matter for real before a single definition is memorized.
- Mass, volume & density
- States of matter & changes of state
- Mixtures vs. pure substances
- Measure mass, volume & density
- Predict float vs. sink from density
- Report data with correct units
How “mastered” is actually judged.
Every skill is scored at one of three levels against a published standard, without points or grading on a curve. Here is one criterion from the Matter & Its Properties rubric — density, shown as a parent or guide would read it:
| Level | What it looks like — “Measure density, then predict float or sink” |
|---|---|
| Developing | Thinks heavier objects always sink. |
| Proficient | Knows density is mass over volume but cannot use it to predict floating or sinking. |
| Mastery | Calculates density from measured mass and volume and uses it to predict whether an object floats or sinks. |
Browse the full rubric set → · How this becomes an A–F grade →
The artifact a student builds, keeps, and defends.
The lab notebook is the primary record of a student's work, written in pen at the bench and explained aloud. Here is one model Experiment Day, showing how each section is recorded. Notice the crossed-out timing slip and the honest sources of error.
| Added mass (g) | Time (s) |
|---|---|
| 0 | 1.42 |
| 100 | 1.40 |
| 200 | 1.43 |
- Dated & titled entries
- A testable question & hypothesis
- Units on every number
- Significant figures, honestly reported
- Calculations shown, not just answers
- Written in pen during the lab; errors crossed out, not erased
- Error analysis with direction & size
The moment that can’t be faked.
Three times across the 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 timed prediction-and-test, they predict a physical outcome from their own measurements, then run it live and account for the difference.
“The steel bolt masses 31 g and displaced 4 mL of water, so its density is about 7.8 g/mL — well over water’s 1.0 — so I predicted it sinks. It did. The cork came out under 1.0, so I called it a float, and it floated.”
A passing answer from the timed prediction-and-test — reasoning from real measurements, not guessing from weight.
The whole pack, ready for a binder.
Everything here is available to read online. 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 Physical Science binder →
Seen enough to start?
The whole Physical Science pack is open to read and print. Open it and begin, or ask us a question first. A real person answers.