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A Modular Index: Finding the Right Piece for Whatever You're Already Teaching

DRAFT — review before publishing

Everybody's Science says this about itself, in the note before Chapter One: “Most teachers won't use this book cover to cover as a single course text, and it isn't built assuming you will — pull whichever chapter matches whatever unit you're already teaching, in whatever order your course actually moves in.” This page is that promise made usable. It is not a syllabus and it does not imply a front-to-back teaching sequence — it's a lookup tool. Find the chapter or one-pager that matches whatever you're already covering this week, and go straight there.

Type below to filter by chapter title, topic, or one-pager name. The table itself holds the full map: every chapter in the book, the existing one-pager(s) already built to pair with it, the closest matching NGSS codes, and — where one is planned — the Teaching-tab companion piece that goes with it.

Book location Existing one-pager(s) already on the site Related NGSS Planned Teaching-tab companion
Part I · Wonder
Ch. 1 — “A Farm Boy's Laboratory”
Chemistry #1: Written in Carbonic Acid
Chemistry #6: The Fifth State of Matter
Chemistry #7: Reading Tissue With Radio Waves
HS-PS1, HS-LS1
Part I · Wonder
Ch. 2 — “All Six Kingdoms in a Virginia Streambank”
Biology #5: Six Kingdoms Along a Virginia Streambank
Biology #7: Life's First Foothold
Chemistry #3: What If the Genetic Code Ran Backwards?
HS-LS4, HS-LS2 Article #2, “Can We Go Outside?”
Part I · Wonder
Ch. 3 — “The Edge of the World”
Chemistry #4: The Chemistry of Lightning
Chemistry #1: Written in Carbonic Acid
HS-ESS1, HS-ESS2 Article #3, “Numbers Every Science Teacher Should Have on Tap”
Part II · How Breakthroughs Happen
Ch. 4 — “The Master Fisherman Problem”
Biology #6: Teaching the Immune System to See Tuberculosis HS-LS1, SEP-3
Part II · How Breakthroughs Happen
Ch. 4.5 — “Thinking Like an Inventor”
Careers #5: Finding Your Big Idea SEP-1, SEP-7
Part II · How Breakthroughs Happen
Ch. 5 — “Racing a Pandemic”
Biology #3: Racing a Pandemic
Biology #9: Sixty Years of Failure
Biology #6: Teaching the Immune System to See Tuberculosis
HS-LS1, HS-ETS1 Article #4, “Teaching Biotechnology: CRISPR, PCR, Gel Electrophoresis, and mRNA”
Part II · How Breakthroughs Happen
Ch. 6 — “Science Argues With Itself on Purpose”
Careers #7: How Science Actually Gets Funded
Careers #9: Using AI Without Losing Your Own Insight
SEP-7, SEP-8 Article #7, “Peer Review in the Classroom”
Part III · The Science That Explains Us
Ch. 7 — “The Chemistry of an Ordinary Morning”
Chemistry #2: Testing the Water
Chemistry #3: What If the Genetic Code Ran Backwards?
Chemistry #5: Chemistry Without Gravity
Chemistry #9: Electrolysis and Rust
HS-PS1, HS-LS4, HS-LS1, HS-ETS1
Part III · The Science That Explains Us
Ch. 8 — “Warming Seas, Changing Coasts”
Biology #2: Warming Seas, Dying Reefs
Chemistry #8: Carbon-14
HS-LS2, HS-ESS3
Part III · The Science That Explains Us
Ch. 9 — “Infectious Disease Shaped Us”
Biology #4: Virus or Bacteria?
Biology #1: Cyclospora and Unwashed Produce
Biology #10: The Biology of Sex, Gender, and Parenthood
HS-LS4, HS-LS1, HS-LS3
Part IV · The Assault on Science
Ch. 10 — “A World Competing on Truth”
Chemistry #5: Chemistry Without Gravity (SSEP review-board connection only, not a direct content match) SEP-8
Part IV · The Assault on Science
Ch. 11 — “The Shroud of Misinformation”
No existing one-pager match yet. Article #6, “Talking About Misinformation Without Talking Politics”
Part IV · The Assault on Science
Ch. 12 — “The University Crisis”
Careers #8: Why Science Funding Should Work Like Military Readiness None directly — civic/economic pairing
Part V · The Path Forward
Ch. 13 — “Everybody Votes on Science”
Careers #1: Beyond Pre-Med
Careers #2: Beyond the Lab Bench
Careers #3: Building Your Science Sequence
Careers #4: The Real Runway
Careers #5: Finding Your Big Idea
SEP-1, SEP-7 (career-readiness framing) Article #8, “One-Pager, Public Good”
Part V · The Path Forward
Ch. 14 — “If You Can't Reason, You Can't Ask Good Questions”
No single direct match — this chapter synthesizes claim-evidence-reasoning practice from across the site. SEP-6, SEP-7 Article #5, “Using CER Pragmatically” · Article #10, “Battlefield Science as a Model”
Part V · The Path Forward
Ch. 15 — “When Fluency Isn't Thinking”
Biology #8: AlphaFold and the Fifty-Year Protein Problem
Chemistry #10: Did Mars Have Oceans?
SEP-4, SEP-8 Article #9, “The Instrument vs. the Reasoner”
Epilogue Careers #6: Why Teaching Science Might Be the Best Decision You Ever Make

Compiled directly from First Draft v3's own chapter-end citations, current as of July 2026 — update this table if chapter pairings or NGSS codes change in a later draft. Where a linked one-pager includes Virginia SOL codes, they appear directly inside that page's own “Check your understanding” questions; coverage is not yet consistent across every one-pager, so check each page individually rather than assuming a code is listed here.