Science One-Pagers

Thinking with evidence — the companion to Everybody’s Science, and the classroom work behind it

This site is the companion to Everybody’s Science, Mr. Schwebach’s book about how scientific thinking actually works and who it belongs to. Read about the book →

The book makes its case with a handful of named ideas — the Welcome Test, the Reaching Standard, hypothesis space, the difference between an instrument and a reasoner. This site is where those ideas get used on material the book never covers, and where the classroom work behind it lives. Most pages are short, self-contained readings written for advanced high school students working at an introductory-college level, with key vocabulary and questions to check understanding. New topics are added over the course of the year.

The Book

Everything on this site comes out of one argument. This is where that argument lives.

Evidence

How evidence actually gets made, judged, funded, and argued over — the ideas the book is built on, worked out on new material.

Biology

Short readings in biology, each one a real case of evidence being gathered and weighed.

Chemistry

Short readings in chemistry, from a pool deck at 6 a.m. to the chemistry of water on Mars.

Careers

What a science education is actually for, and the paths it opens.

Teaching

Classroom-facing guides, protocols, and reference material for teachers — companion pieces to Everybody’s Science and to the readings above.