Queen of Science

Two weeks later, it is the middle of the night. The crickets are chirping, and the raccoons are raiding trash cans. The moonlight shines into the dark night.

All of the lights are off in the house and two adult shapes are lying in bed.

A glow of white light is coming through the gaps between an office door and the walls that surround it.

Inside the office, a toddler is holding an art pad in her left hand. With her right hand, she is reaching for a flashlight on a bookshelf.

This little toddler is wearing an adorable dog onesie and her blonde hair is kept out of her face by a lacey elastic headband. As her bright grey eyes shine, they show an intelligence and wisdom beyond their age. This little child is Fern.

After Fern got lonely and crawled out of her nursery, Camilla and Miles read books on child attachment styles and how to prevent children from becoming too attached to their parents. Miles confided their concerns to his mom, Roseanne, and she advised them to slowly decrease Fern's body contact with Camilla and Miles during the day. It made them sad to not hug and coddle Fern as much as they used to, but they compensated by talking with Fern more.

Earlier today, Camilla and Miles decided that they will try letting Fern sleep in a crib. Camilla and Miles did not put Fern in her nursery but instead brought her crib to their room. This way, Fern is still sleeping in the same room as her parents, but Fern will not get lonely at night.

Since Fern will not wake up her parents by walking on the bed, Fern can escape the crib and sneak around at night. Taking advantage of the situation, Fern escaped her crib the moment her parents fell into deep sleep.

In preparation for this moment, Fern has been continuously making math lessons during the day. Over the past 2 weeks, she managed to make 5 lessons every day. In total, she made 70 lessons for kindergarten students to students in the 8th grade.

For a normal person, it would be extremely challenging to continuously design new lessons and ensure that the lessons are appropriate for their intended audience. Not only would it be creatively exhausting, it would also be physically tiring to write the lessons on paper.

Most people have the luxury of completely zoning out of the real world and focusing solely on their work. Unfortunately, Fern did not have this privilege. She had to exert more energy than most people because she had to remain alert at all times. Fern had to listen for footsteps, muffled voices, and other warning signs that someone will be entering the room. Once noticing those signs, she had to immediately respond and hide the fact that she was creating a lesson.

Thankfully, Fern is anything but a normal person. In her previous universe, Fern was left in front of an orphanage door as a baby. Unlike most of her peers, Fern was always studying and reading. She behaved maturely, and she struggled to interact with children her age. Fern was viewed by many adults as antisocial and quiet, so she was never adopted.

Since Fern was mature for her age, the adults who took care of her assumed that Fern did not require much attention. Fern started secretly working at 13 years old and she essentially raised herself. In order to pay the bills and attend university, she had to work full-time even during school. At one-point, Fern was attending school full-time, working at an internship, and working full-time as a barista.

With her experience, Fern developed extremely high management and planning skills. Thus, the past 2 weeks provided little challenge for Fern.

Once Fern grabs the flashlight off the bookshelf, she plops onto the ground with her tools. She previously took a camera from her parent's room and set it by her side. In front of Fern is her art pad, to her left is the flashlight, and to her right is the camera. After opening up the art pad to the first math lesson, Fern turns on the flashlight and fixates it onto the page. This way the lessons will be high quality and easy to read once on Simply Explained.

*Click*

Fern picks up the camera and starts taking pictures of each lesson page.

Once she has pictures of each page necessary for a lesson, Fern uploads them to the office computer. She then combines every image into a video and adds light music into the background.

20 minutes later, Fern has a lesson video for all 70 lessons that she made previously! Fern then uploads the videos to the website in their appropriate categories. For instance: the introduction to counting lesson video is under kindergarten math.

In Fern's previous universe it was common knowledge that learning increases with the active recall of information. Although this is somewhat accepted in the new universe, most students still prioritize note-taking and reading.

In order to have an edge over other educational websites, Fern will have quizzes accompanied by lesson videos. Instead of writing the quizzes on her art pad, Fern will create them digitally. This allows for the quizzes to be interactive.

Students will have three ways to practice active recall of the information taught in the videos. The first way will use flashcards. The front of the card has a definition and the card back has a term.

The second way of active recall will have sentences with a blank for a certain word. The student has the type in a space what word goes in the blank.

The final way for the student to be quizzed is by a minigame. In this minigame, a question will pass from the left to the right side of the screen. The student has to type in the answer before the question exits the screen. If the student fails, the question will pass by the screen again in a couple seconds. Also, the questions will move across the screen slower. If the student succeeds, the questions will move faster across the screen. This means that the student has to recall the correct answer faster.

Knowing that it will take a long time to create these activities for every lesson, Fern decides to call it a night and go to bed.

Unlike the previous time that Fern snuck out of her crib, she can climb back in! The repetitive writing and drawing that Fern has been doing have increased her arm strength! This time Fern can pick up a stool and put it near the crib railing. Once the stool is near the crib, she can pull herself up and over the crib railing.