The Release
The batch doesn't care about the deadline.
The math decides whether a batch is safe to ship.
The Release puts your 11th and 12th graders on the science team at a gene-therapy company. Over about two weeks, three real calculations — a dilution, a viral titer, and a potency standard curve — decide whether a batch of medicine is safe to give a patient. A convenient label hides a 2× error, a finished-looking prep is secretly an overdose, and the final batch comes back below spec with a family waiting. Algebra stops being a worksheet and becomes the thing that keeps a patient safe.
See what your students get, and why it lands.
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A worksheet was never going to teach this.
Your students are not plugging numbers into a formula. They are the science team holding a batch that is eight months and a budget deep, with a patient waiting, and a potency number that comes back below spec. The tempting call is to ship it. The correct call is to hold it. That is real judgment under real pressure, with the math — not the deadline — making the decision.
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They are graded on their reasoning, not on shipping on time.
Here is what surprises teachers. A team that holds a failing batch scores higher than one that released it to make the deadline. The decision is assessed on whether it matches the data, traced through the team’s own batch record. A sound “hold” outscores a lucky ship. That is how a student learns the spec outranks the schedule.
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Let the workbook do the arithmetic, so students do the thinking.
The Release comes with a workbook that holds the titer data, the dilution setup, and the potency standard curve. Students enter the numbers and the sheet keeps the math straight, so their attention stays on the hard part — what the data says to do — instead of on the calculation.
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Every day is already scripted. You just run the room.
You do not need a biotech background to teach this. The guide scripts every day, names what students will likely say, and gives you exactly how to respond. The math, the traps, and the reveals are all written for you. You bring the facilitation. The simulation brings everything else.
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The lesson plan is already written — and it is evaluation-ready.
Every simulation comes with a fully editable, admin-ready lesson plan for every day: standards alignment, daily pacing, learning objectives, differentiation, and a Danielson and Marzano crosswalk. Hand it to an administrator, adapt it to your district template in minutes, or use the simulation itself as your formal observation lesson.
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Everything you need to run it.
- An admin-ready, evaluation-ready lesson plan. A fully editable plan for all ten days with standards alignment, daily pacing, differentiation, assessment, and a Danielson/Marzano crosswalk. Included with every purchase.
- Ten days of playbooks (two pre-sim plus eight) that script every session.
- A worked-math student workbook covering titer, dilution, and potency.
- Three case data packets with real biotech data, plus role cards for the science team.
- Batch records and dual rubrics that grade reasoning, not shipping on time.
- Scaffolded supports for students who need more structure.
- Built on the PATIENCE framework: R&D under pressure — productive failure recovery, adaptive strategy, and navigating uncertainty.
Bring The Release to your classroom.
About two weeks, fully planned, where real math decides whether a batch of medicine is safe to release.
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