Curriculum

New Teacher's Guide Now Available! 

Journey of the Universe Teacher’s Guide for Secondary Schools

‍

‍

‍Journey of the Universe Curricular Materials

‍

Download All Curricular Materials

‍

1. ‍Introduction
2. ‍Beginning of the Universe
3. ‍The Formation of Galaxies
4. ‍The Emanating Brilliance of Stars
5. ‍Our Solar System
6. ‍Life’s Emergence
7. ‍Living and Dying
8. ‍The Passion of Animals
9. ‍The Origin of the Human
10. ‍Becoming a Planetary Presence
11. ‍Rethinking Matter and Time
12. ‍Emerging Earth Community

‍

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

‍

• ‍"The New Story," by Thomas Berry
• ‍"Being Human in the Age of Humans," by Rick Potts
• "The Age of Humans: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Anthropocene"
• ‍Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History
• ‍The Earth Charter and the Journey of the Universe
• ‍“Emergence: Nature’s Mode of Creativity” -- Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS)
• ‍Epic of Evolution (website by Cathy McGowan Russell)
• ‍Nature’s Depths (Blog by John Palka)
• ‍"A NeoPresocratic Manifesto," by J. Baird Callicott
• ‍"California collegDemonstrate an Eclipsee helps place humans in universe story," by Sharon Abercrombie
• ‍Overview of Cosmic Evolution as presented by Eric Chaisson
• Cosmic Walk Script and Images, collected by Sam King
• ‍"Cosmic Walk: A Script," by Glenys Livingstone
• ‍“Wherefore Environmental Studies in a 21st Century City?” by Julianne Lutz Warren
• ‍"As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse," by Billy Collins
• ‍"Stars Boil Before They Blow Up, Says NuSTAR," by Jason Major
• ‍“Introducing Humboldt's Cosmos,” by Laura Dassow Walls
• ‍An Annotated Bibliography of Children's Literature with Environmental Themes
• ‍"Transforming from Stardust," by Lorna Carmen McNeill
• ‍Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization, by Paul Raskin
• ‍"Music for an Emergent Universe," with Sam Guarnaccia
• ‍Deep Time Journey Network
• ‍Global Generation
• ‍The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World
• ‍Deep Time Walk (app for smartphones)
• ‍Timespirals (spiral timelines of the story of the universe)
• ‍The Scale of the Universe: Putting the Universe into Perspective
• ‍What is Earth Literacy? (Earth Ethics Institute)
• ‍Time to a Pin Oak (Emergence Magazine)
• ‍The Pull of the Sky (Emergence Magazine)
• ‍Great Ball of Fire! A Poetic Telling of the Universe Story, by Betty-Ann Kissilove (San Francisco: Mearth Press, 2010)
• ‍A Guide for Praying the Stations of the Cosmos (By Ignatius Jesuit Centre)
• New Universe Story Paintings (by Mary Coelho)
• ‍Glorious Mysteries in the World of Plants (by Peter Crane)
• "Journey of the Universe" (poem by Peter  C. Goldmark, Jr.)
• ‍"The Universe" (poem by Ryan Trombly)
• Gaianism: A Philosophical Path through an Ecologically Unstable Time
• Ridge and Valley Charter School curriculum framework
• Ecology Reflections from Fr. John Surette, SJ
• The Powers of the Universe (essays by Betsey Crawford)
• ‍Watch videos related to Journey of the Universe