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META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · JEWELRY & GEMOLOGY · THE LAB'S YEAR · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 1 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES

Jewelry & Gemology · the year

The Bench · Jewelry · in The Bench · Jewelry

Where on Earth stones come from · the chemistry of shine · then the bench — cast, set, finish, and consign at MZUZI

This year is laid from the lab’s own calendar — every course inside the lab end to end, then its floors — not written quarter by quarter. The weeks are the lab’s; the quarter windows are the catalog’s.
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.
OFFERED ASThe Year · 36 wkSemester 1 · 18 wkSemester 2 · 18 wkQuarter 1 · 9 wkQuarter 2 · 9 wkQuarter 3 · 9 wkQuarter 4 · 9 wk
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
  • Know where stones come from + the chemistry of shine
  • Cast, set, and finish at the bench
  • Consign a piece at MZUZI
AT A GLANCE · 36 WEEKS
Q1 The Stone Room · where stones come from → The Bench · cast, set, finish — A finished piece
Q2 The Bench · cast, set, finish — A stone-set design
Q3 The floor — A finished piece
Q4 The floor — A stone-set design
THE COURSES INSIDE THIS LAB · 2
Gemology · The Stone Room · where stones come from9 WK · QUARTER →Jewelry Fabrication · The Bench · cast, set, finish18 WK · SEMESTER →
THE ROOMS · 13 · BEHIND LOGIN
The Jewelry LabThe Stone AtlasThe BenchThe Bench MapThe BoardThe CollectionThe Ice FilesThe Karat LedgerThe Pairing BoardThe ProspectorThe Recipe BoxThe Stone RoomWill It Survive the Torch?

Semester 1

WEEKS 1–18 · QUARTERS 1 AND 2
Quarter 1 · The Stone Room · where stones come from → The Bench · cast, set, finish
WEEKS 1–9
THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1
The Oldest CraftTHE STONE ROOM · WHERE STONES COME FROM
Chains as language → 100,000-year-old beads · Egypt’s gold · Rome’s signet · the Renaissance bench · Tiffany. The Timeline Vault.
WK 2
How the Earth Makes a Stone
Igneous / metamorphic / sedimentary · heat + pressure + time · diamonds from 100 miles down · pearls the one gem an animal makes. The Forge.
WK 3
The Prospector
Where the stones are and WHY — geology as a treasure map, then the geography game.
WK 4
The Chemistry of Shine
Crystal systems · corundum = ruby AND sapphire (one trace atom!) · Mohs · why it sparkles. The Trace-Atom Lab.
WK 5
The Ice Files
Diamonds — the 4 Cs, the manufactured “Forever,” blood diamonds, lab-grown.
WK 6
The Pairing Board
Which stones sing together — color theory wearing gems.
WK 7
The Temperature of Stones
Will it survive the torch? Chemistry becomes shop discipline.
WK 8
The Appraiser’s Eye
The identification gauntlet + why one sapphire is $80 and another $8,000. The Dossier.
WK 9
The Bench MapTHE BENCH · CAST, SET, FINISH
Every tool, every machine — YOUR shop. The bench, the hand tools, the casting floor, and the safety spine.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A finished piece
The question. Can you know where stones come from + the chemistry of shine?
The make. A finished piece
The evidence. Handed in through The Bench · Jewelry’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 2 · The Bench · cast, set, finish
WEEKS 10–18 · IN THIS OFFERING
THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 10
Metals + the Karat LedgerTHE BENCH · CAST, SET, FINISH
What karat IS (compute it) · alloys · troy/dwt/gram · density · reading spot price. The Karat Ledger.
WK 11
Saw, File, Shape
First fabrication — piercing, filing, texturing. Booth hours begin. A pierced pendant of your design.
WK 12
Join It (Soldering)
Hard/medium/easy solder · flux · pickle · sweat soldering. The torch rule bites: what leaves before flame.
WK 13
Ring Math + Earrings & Chain
Ring-blank geometry derived · sizing · earring & chain mechanics · findings. A matched pair.
WK 14
Set the Stone
Bezel, prong, flush, channel · which setting suits which stone (heat + hardness return). A bezel-set cab.
WK 15
The Casting Floor I
Carve the wax → sprue → invest → burnout. The wax-to-metal math before the pour.
WK 16
The Casting Floor II
Melt → cast → divest → finish. A cast piece from your own carved wax.
WK 17
Finish Like a Pro
Grits in sequence · tripoli → rouge · tumbling · plating · hallmarking (stamp only what’s true).
WK 18
The Collection
The capstone — design → cost → make → SKU → defend → consign at MZUZI.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A stone-set design
The question. Can you cast, set, and finish at the bench?
The make. A stone-set design
The evidence. Handed in through The Bench · Jewelry’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.

Semester 2

WEEKS 19–36 · QUARTERS 3 AND 4
Quarter 3 · The floor
WEEKS 19–27
THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 19–24
Where on Earth stones come fromTHE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 25–27
The chemistry of shine
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A finished piece
The question. Can you consign a piece at MZUZI?
The make. A finished piece
The evidence. Handed in through The Bench · Jewelry’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 4 · The floor
WEEKS 28–36
THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 28–30
The chemistry of shine (continued)THE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 31–36
Then the bench — cast, set, finish, and consign at MZUZI
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A stone-set design
The question. Can you know where stones come from + the chemistry of shine?
The make. A stone-set design
The evidence. Handed in through The Bench · Jewelry’s own surface and 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.

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THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
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