META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN JEWELRY & GEMOLOGY · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.5 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Jewelry Fabrication
The Bench · cast, set, finish · in The Bench · Jewelry
10 weeks of The Bench · Jewelry: The Bench Map · Metals + the Karat Ledger · Saw, File, Shape · Join It (Soldering) · Ring Math + Earrings & Chain …
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
ART & DESIGNSCIENCETECHNOLOGY & TRADESHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESMATHBUSINESS & ENTERPRISEREADING & WRITINGCODING & AI
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Every tool, every machine — YOUR shop
- What karat IS (compute it) · alloys · troy/dwt/gram · density · reading spot price
- First fabrication — piercing, filing, texturing
- Hard/medium/easy solder · flux · pickle · sweat soldering
AT A GLANCE · 18 WEEKS
Q1 The Bench Map → Finish Like a Pro — The assignments · weeks 1–9
Q2 The Collection → The floor — The assignments · weeks 10–18
ALSO IN JEWELRY & GEMOLOGY · THE BENCH · JEWELRY
A semester
18 WEEKS · TWO QUARTERSQuarter 1 · The Bench Map → Finish Like a Pro
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1The Bench MapTHE BENCH · CAST, SET, FINISH
Every tool, every machine — YOUR shop. The bench, the hand tools, the casting floor, and the safety spine.
WK 2Metals + the Karat Ledger
What karat IS (compute it) · alloys · troy/dwt/gram · density · reading spot price. The Karat Ledger.
WK 3Saw, File, Shape
First fabrication — piercing, filing, texturing. Booth hours begin. A pierced pendant of your design.
WK 4Join It (Soldering)
Hard/medium/easy solder · flux · pickle · sweat soldering. The torch rule bites: what leaves before flame.
WK 5Ring Math + Earrings & Chain
Ring-blank geometry derived · sizing · earring & chain mechanics · findings. A matched pair.
WK 6Set the Stone
Bezel, prong, flush, channel · which setting suits which stone (heat + hardness return). A bezel-set cab.
WK 7The Casting Floor I
Carve the wax → sprue → invest → burnout. The wax-to-metal math before the pour.
WK 8The Casting Floor II
Melt → cast → divest → finish. A cast piece from your own carved wax.
WK 9Finish Like a Pro
Grits in sequence · tripoli → rouge · tumbling · plating · hallmarking (stamp only what’s true).
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 1–9
The question. What does The Bench ask you to be able to do by week 9?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: The Bench Map · Metals + the Karat Ledger · Saw, File, Shape · Join It (Soldering) …
The evidence. Handed in through The Bench inside The Bench · Jewelry, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 2 · The Collection → The floor
WEEKS 10–18THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 10The CollectionTHE BENCH · CAST, SET, FINISH
The capstone — design → cost → make → SKU → defend → consign at MZUZI.
WK 11–18The floor
The floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 10–18
The question. What does The Bench ask you to be able to do by week 10?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: The Collection · The floor
The evidence. Handed in through The Bench inside The Bench · Jewelry, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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