Social Studies, Ethnic Studies & Science

Social Studies course will include the philosophy and rationale of cosmic education. Cosmic education tells the stories about the interconnectedness of all things. It provides a comprehensive, holistic, and purposeful framework to understanding our place within the context of the universe. It provides the perspective, as well as the push and pull factors of how the past directly correlates to the present day. Cosmic Education encompasses awareness, respect, and gratitude of the interdependence of all things that begins with refining our sensory motors with nature. The refinement of the senses supports the processing and understanding of the interconnected between history, culture, science, and the environment. Maria Montessori believed Cosmic Education was a vehicle to restore harmony and order and thus allow humankind to realize and to develop towards their full human potential. 

Adult learners will learn how to use time (clock), calendar, seasons, personal history, and the passage of time to develop historical thinking: Chronological Thinking, Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Analysis and Decision Making, and research. Adult learners will learn about physical geography (Land and Water forms, Globes, Puzzle Maps, Flags, etc.), and cultural geography with an emphasis on the diverse cultures and people on Earth. Adult learners will learn how to use an anti-bias approach (diversity, identity, justice, and action) and an anti-oppressive (internalized, interpersonal, institutional, and ideological) to teaching social studies–this includes incorporating the tenants of Ethnic studies (critical hope, real world application, disrupting the dominative narrative, and including multiple perspectives).

Science course will include the philosophy and rationale that includes a global perspective

Adult learners will learn about materials and lessons in biology (botany and zoology), and the four disciplinary core ideas of science (physical sciences, life sciences, earth and space sciences, and engineering, technology, and applications of science).