A Modular Index: Finding the Right Piece for Whatever You're Already Teaching
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 — “The School That Adopted Me” |
Teaching #7: Peer Review in the Classroom Teaching #10: Battlefield Science as a Model Careers #5: Why Teaching Science Might Be the Best Decision You Ever Make |
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| Part I · Wonder Ch. 3 — “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. 4 — “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. 5 — “The Master Fisherman Problem” |
Biology #6: Teaching the Immune System to See Tuberculosis | HS-LS1, SEP-3 | — |
| Part II · How Breakthroughs Happen Ch. 6 — “Thinking Like an Inventor: Creativity, Innovation, and Teams in Science” |
Careers #5: Finding Your Big Idea | SEP-1, SEP-7 | — |
| Part II · How Breakthroughs Happen Ch. 7 — “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. 8 — “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. 9 — “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. 10 — “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. 11 — “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 · When Trust Breaks Down Ch. 12 — “A World Competing on Truth” |
Chemistry #5: Chemistry Without Gravity (SSEP review-board connection only, not a direct content match) | SEP-8 | — |
| Part IV · When Trust Breaks Down Ch. 13 — “The Shroud of Misinformation” |
No existing one-pager match yet. | — | Article #6, “Talking About Misinformation Without Talking Politics” · Article #11, “The Four Conditions for Changing a Mind” |
| Part IV · When Trust Breaks Down Ch. 14 — “The University Crisis” |
Careers #8: Why Science Funding Should Work Like Military Readiness | None directly — civic/economic pairing | — |
| Part V · The Path Forward Ch. 15 — “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. 16 — “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. 17 — “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.