Category: Big History
The Story of Big History
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 5, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
Currently, a group of historians is claiming that it might be history that provides the framework for a scientific and evolutionary account of everything. Big History, so named by its foremost practitioner, David Christian, seeks to unite the two cultures under the framework of an elegant story of the universe, a history, in the words […]
A Pale Blue Dot
Posted by Brian Tucker | Oct 30, 2019 | Adult Education, Art, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Government, Higher Education, Law, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, Story of the Universe, Video |
A timely and beautiful video narrated by Carl Sagan reading from his book “A Pale Blue Dot”. Helps us all build a Deep Time Perspective.
Origins: The Bulletin of the International Big History Association
Posted by Lowell Gustafson | Aug 26, 2019 | Adult Education, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Document, Ecology/Sustainability, Epic of Evolution, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
The International Big History Association Conference is coming up in July 2020. Here are links to articles in this latest edition of Origins, the bulletin of the IBHA. Big History: What Is It and Why Should We Narrate It? by Priyadarshini Karve 2020 IBHA Conference information; Guidebook Video recordings of presentations from SETI / Big […]
Deep Time History Wall Mural
Posted by Jon Cleland Host | Jul 19, 2019 | Adult Education, Art, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Early Childhood PK, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Elementary 3 - 5, Elementary K - 2, Hands On Materials, Higher Education, Image, Infant/Toddler, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe |
Check out the deep time history wall mural we put up at Midland High School! It makes me very glad to realize that hundreds of Michigan high school students are seeing this every day during the school year, helping them understand where we came from and what an awesome history it is! The decals are […]
Big History Engagement through weekly Cosmic Walk, Tarumitra, Bihar, India
Posted by Nagesh Anand | Jul 10, 2019 | Adult Education, Agriculture, Art, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Government, Higher Education, Image, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Ritual, Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe |
Orla Hazra introduced us to the Cosmic walk. * In Patna, we have been doing comic walk every Saturday with all age groups. We translated the narrative into Hindi and that has allowed us to connect deeply with rural populations too. * Recently we had a remarkable feedback session with some 60 men belonging to […]
Weekly Cosmic Walk in Bihar, India & Jesuit Eco Campaigns in India
Posted by Nagesh Anand | Jul 9, 2019 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Elementary 3 - 5, Elementary K - 2, Higher Education, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, The New Story |
The link in the top right will take you to a newsletter that describes the Cosmic Walk we do at Tarumitra and Jesuit Eco Campaigns underway in India. Regarding the Cosmic Walk: DTN member and board member Orla Hazra introduced us to the Cosmic walk. – At Tarumitra,* in Patna, India, we have been doing […]
On Humans Mapping the Sky (Ted Talk by June Kollmeier)
Posted by Orla Hazra | Jun 21, 2019 | Audio, Big History, Cosmic Evolution, Middle 6 - 8, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science |
A talk by June Kollmeier on how her colleagues are mapping our galaxies, black holes and stars. Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her […]
Is the Universe Conscious? – Article by Corey S. Powell featured on NBC News
Posted by Brian Tucker | May 9, 2019 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Higher Education, Journey of the Universe, Lifelong, Other, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12 |
In 2017, NBC News asked a larger readership to consider: “Is the Universe Conscious?”...
Read MoreShifting the Paradigm: Ridge and Valley Charter School (Best Classroom Teaching Video Award)
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 26, 2019 | Big History, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Elementary 3 - 5, Elementary K - 2, Middle 6 - 8, Resource I Created, The New Story, Video |
This video won the Best Classroom Teaching Video Award in our Deeptime Video Awards. A must see for teachers. See how a deep time approach to education looks, and the impact it has on students. It shows how the Ridge and Valley Charter School, Blairstown, NJ, a public elementary school, grounds its curriculum inside the […]
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