# Calendar 00: Welcome to the FACS Room
Unit 0, Launch. 5 periods of 40 minutes, days 1 to 5 of the year, marking period 1. One teaching week. One cell per period: the lesson code and title, then what happens that day. CHECK marks the two things collected on day 5. There are no LAB or PROJECT days in Unit 0.
This calendar is written in day numbers and teaching weeks, not dates. The columns are the five meetings of each teaching week; a holiday pushes every later day back one meeting. Map the day numbers onto your school's calendar; the day numbers and the order do not change.
| Week | Meeting 1 | Meeting 2 | Meeting 3 | Meeting 4 | Meeting 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 (Unit 0, Launch) | **Day 1: 0.1 What Is FACS and Who Is in This Room**
First do now on the board; the six modules as a year map; table introductions; hope card as the exit card | **Day 2: 0.2 How This Room Works**
Room and lab tour with the room map; zones; the reset cue practiced; role cards explained with the Unit 1 set; Draw/See/Hear in pairs, two rounds; observation checklist | **Day 3: 0.3 Decisions Step by Step**
Plane crash simulation: rank ten items alone, then as a team; score both against the expert key; the five-step decision model named; team ranking sheet collected | **Day 4: 0.4 Teamwork Under Pressure**
Silent Measurement preview with water and rice; debrief what worked without words; teams write four norms and sign the team norms contract | **Day 5: 0.5 The Room and Lab Agreement and Pre-Assessment**
Agreement read aloud in parts, one line critiqued and rewritten, signed; CHECK: Assessment 00.1 Unit 1 Pre-Assessment (15 items, 12 minutes, not graded) |
## Counts
- Lessons: 5 (0.1 to 0.5), one day each.
- Topic day counts: 0.1 five (days 1 to 5). Total 5.
- LAB days: 0. PROJECT days: 0.
- CHECK days: 1 (day 5: the signed agreement and the pre-assessment). Both are collected, neither is graded. A student absent on day 5 signs the agreement and takes the pre-assessment during the do now of Lesson 1.1 on day 6.
- What carries forward: the five-step decision model (every project), the reset cue and role cards (every lab), the team norms (reread before Lab 1 on day 16), the pre-assessment tallies (Lessons 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 1.10, 1.16, and the Unit 1 Test growth measure on items 1, 11, and 13).