Maria Montessori devised certain grand lessons that were impressionistic in nature—that is, the lesson is not meant to nail down specifics, but to allow a child to see the enormity of the universe and the child’s place within that universe.
I happened to run across a lesson I did with my Montessori students—ages 9 to 12—which was made ultimately made into a 20-foot long properly scaled strip depicting the origin of our universe from the Big Bang right up until just before humans began to inhabit the earth.
Isn’t the art magnificent?
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