This article beautifully explains how Cosmic Education, typically reserved for the Elementary aged child, shows signs and interest in the younger years and gives examples of what it looks like and how it allows children to take the first steps towards “fulfilling their cosmic roles and discovering their potential.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson is always a joy to behold. Here he explains the complete ignorance we have as to the identity of what is normally called Dark Matter. Admitting ignorance is both necessary and humbling.
Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly describes how the decisions we make about the environment...
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Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who...
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This article was written specifically for the Deep Time Journey Network by Michael Lemonick, a science writer for TIME magazine, a Senior Writer, Climate Central, and a lecturer at Princeton University. The Deep Time Journey Network knowingly rides the precarious knife edge between science and the humanities. We feel that this conversation is of great […]
Written by three big historians with long experience of teaching big history, this is the first college level textbook on big history. It updates the big history narrative, incorporates the core idea of Thresholds of Increasing Complexity, adds further readings and resources, and also chapter questions and many illustrations, maps and diagrams. Nine of the […]
This short book (250 pages) tells big history for a general audience in clear, non-academic language, yet well documented. The general theme is of the human history portion is humans in their environment, connected by food.
This is my dissertation which traces our cultural environmental unsustainability, social injustice...
Read MoreThis film has a number of astronauts describe their experience of seeing the earth from space. Some of them call their experience the “overview effect.” They recall Carl Sagan’s recognition that the earth is a fragile spaceship, protected by a thin atmosphere. This 19 minute film is an important introduction for recognizing the importance of […]
Keynote by Jennifer Morgan at the 2013 national American Montessori Society Conference in Orlando, FL. It’s an overview the Montessori Cosmic Education Curriculum and how it relates to other efforts to contextualize all subjects inside the story of the universe, and how it can deeply engage children of all learning styles at the Elementary Level […]
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Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
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Committed to guiding adults in their journey as they discover the truths about childhood and study Montessori pedagogy. Personal growth and deep understanding prepares us for success.
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