Week 1
Lesson 1
Minerals Survey Through Stations 
A "station" features one or more minerals, their properties, uses, interesting historical reference. For example pyrite is credited with being the first "metal" used for strike and spark fire creation and everyone knows why it is also called "fool's gold.
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 Week 2
Lesson 2
Rocks: from human's first weapons to Roman roads across the world to moon rocks.
More "stations" feature common and unusual rocks. Learners will bring to class rocks they collected outdoors. If you look patiently you can almost always find a rock shaped like a heart. 
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Fossils: visible evidence of prehistoric times a window to our deep past. 
More stations featuring plant and animal fossils. Bones, them bones them dry bones...
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Where man meets minerals, rocks and fossils 
These stations feature open-ended questions for learners to ponder and volunteer answers for. For example - Early American Indian tribes had no electricity or metal drills like we use today to make small holes in hard materials. How do you think these Indians managed to make the holes in these stones to fashion necklaces and other jewelry?