Liberty Lamp Logic & Critical Thinking

Liberty Lamp Learning Curriculum

Version 1.0.0 — self-contained first-party curriculum.

Required teaching, examples, practice, assignments, and assessment directions are included inside the course. No commercial textbook, subscription, or third-party curriculum site is required.

Course Structure

18 weekly lessons, five school-day activities per week. The course is organized into 5 instructional units.

Planned high-school credit: 0.5. Families remain responsible for applying their own state, umbrella, school, or transcript policy when awarding credit.

Scope and Sequence

1. Learn: Claims and arguments & Deductive reasoning
2. Practice: Claims and arguments & Deductive reasoning
3. Apply: Claims and arguments & Deductive reasoning
4. Demonstrate: Claims and arguments & Deductive reasoning
5. Learn: Inductive reasoning & Fallacies
6. Practice: Inductive reasoning & Fallacies
7. Apply: Inductive reasoning & Fallacies
8. Demonstrate: Inductive reasoning & Fallacies
9. Learn: Evidence and source quality & Probability and uncertainty
10. Practice: Evidence and source quality & Probability and uncertainty
11. Apply: Evidence and source quality & Probability and uncertainty
12. Demonstrate: Evidence and source quality & Probability and uncertainty
13. Learn: Decision making & Debate and charitable reasoning
14. Practice: Decision making & Debate and charitable reasoning
15. Apply: Decision making & Debate and charitable reasoning
16. Demonstrate: Decision making & Debate and charitable reasoning
17. Learn: Capstone argument analysis
18. Practice: Capstone argument analysis

Curriculum Basis

Liberty Lamp scope-and-sequence based on age-appropriate homeschool learning goals, cumulative mastery, portfolio evidence, and documented instructional work.

Authorship/provenance: Liberty Lamp original AI-assisted instructional material with Liberty Lamp-directed structure, selection, arrangement, validation rules, and revisions. General facts, ideas, mathematical relationships, public-domain material, and Scripture references are not claimed as exclusive subject matter.