Imagine your favorite movie.

What if you were only allowed to watch it for a few seconds at a time, out of sequence, over the course of years? Would you understand the story? Would you fall in love with it?

That's how science is taught in school.

A few seconds at a time. Out of sequence. Over twelve years. They may spend weeks on photosynthesis, and somehow incorporate green construction paper and glue sticks. No wonder kids hate it.

Science with Sal: Discover tells the whole story in sequence, from the Big Bang to the thoughts in your child's head. Like a novel you can't put down.

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Science with Sal: Discover · by Sal Shah

Develop a complete mental model of the universe in one afternoon.

Thirty short chapters, mostly pictures. The Big Bang to atoms to stars to cells to the thoughts in your child's own head. A motivated kid finishes it in an afternoon and can teach it back the next day.

Book 1 is the first of three. The next two are coming soon.

A message from Sal, the author

I know what I'm doing

My name is Sal Shah. I run a school in Arizona authorized by the College Board to teach AP science. My middle schoolers earn perfect scores on AP Biology and AP Chemistry.

I'm not impressed by perfect AP scores. The exams don't test intuition. They're mostly multiple choice, and the free response questions are easy to beat. Plenty of kids ace them and still can't actually use what they know.

What I care about is whether a kid can take the story I taught them and teach it back to someone else. That's the real test.

Sal Shah with a student, holding Science with Sal: Discover

The challenge

Download the book. Learn it. Teach someone. Film yourself doing it. Post with #EveryoneTeaches.

That's how humans have shared knowledge for millennia. Story, then retold. The format is timeless. Social media just makes it faster.

We don't want your money. We want you to learn it, teach it, and tell your friends. That's how we lift humanity together.

A message from Sal, the author

Why I'm sharing this

This is a bet I'm making. Some people I love, and owe a lot to, are not doing so well.

A world that understands science better develops cures faster. If kids everywhere start talking like Star Trek characters about real science, it can frameshift civilization.

If it just gets viral enough.

I've had a good run in business. I don't want your money. I just want you to try the book and, if you like it, share it with other people.

My why doesn't have to be yours. The book and the method work. If all you want from it is better test scores, fine. You do you.

See for yourself, and let's move.

Sal Shah

If you'd like to help get the word out in larger ways, please contact me: sal@everyoneteaches.org