Everything you need to run the course.
A course pack is more than a syllabus — it's the full kit of artifacts a guide, parent, or micro-school operator uses to teach Geology well. Print the checklists, lean on the rubrics to keep the bar consistent, and never let a student handle the dilute-acid dropper or a rock hammer without running the safety list first.
For the student
Retrieval, spaced practice, and the non-negotiable habit of working problems by hand — not rereading worked examples.
A one-page planner that schedules retrieval and daily problem sets around the two-day Concept Day / Field & Lab Day rhythm.
Goggles, the dilute-acid dropper, handling the hardness kit and specimen sets, and a tidy bench — the safety, setup, and readiness list every student runs before a Field & Lab Day.
How to structure a geology entry — specimen sketches, property tables (streak, hardness, luster, cleavage), measurements with units, and interpretation. The artifact students defend all year.
For the guide & parent
A plain-language walkthrough for students and parents: the rhythm, the three demonstrations, and how mastery works.
Running more than one cohort: pacing, shared field-and-lab days, specimen-set prep, and keeping rock & mineral ID defenses manageable.
Hand lenses, streak plates, Mohs hardness kits, dilute-acid droppers, rock & mineral sets, geologic maps, and safety gear — what to buy and roughly what it costs.
Every print-ready packet in binder order — print the whole pack for a three-ring binder.
Reference
The vocabulary, symbols, and units that unlock the whole course — from streak and hardness to cleavage to unconformity.
The wrong ideas students arrive with — about how rocks form, how fast erosion works, and the scale of deep time — and how to dislodge each one.
Where the reading lives: OpenStax Geology, CK-12, and books worth owning. The text sits underneath the bench.
The method, made operable
Mastery, not points: the three levels, why "not yet" recovers, and how it becomes a grade.
Mastery and integration tell a student they can and where it connects. Wonder tells them why they'd bother.
A loop, not a line: falsification, the "No" branch, and recording what you measure — why a real lab is the point.
One per unit, plus the three demonstration rubrics. The shared bar for "mastered."
Encouraged vs. off-limits, plus a curated prompt library for studying geology with AI honestly.
The cross-domain playbook, connecting stratigraphy, tectonics, and deep time into one worked example.