Story of the Universe - Part 2

Following on from my previous post, here is another project completed by one of the children after the Story of the Universe - a stitchery book depicting the birth of the universe and formation of earth.

I wanted to share this work with you as its such a wonderful marriage of handwork, an impressionistic lesson and science.  It reads a little like a fairy tale.

Though I am sharing the ‘product’ here, it is the process through those days that was truly beautiful.

It required a lot of planning and perseverance from the boy. For 9 1/2 days he sat with the sewing box,creating page after page in deep concentration. He applied his previous learning and noticed the refinement of his skills over the days. By the time he had reached the last page in his book, he required no help and even ‘created’ his own weaving stitch. He realized his own independence and commented on it several times. It was self-direction at its strongest.

Apologies for the quality of the photographs, but they were taken on my phone, just before the boy borrowed the book from the library to show his folks at home.

UNIVERSE HISTORY BOOK

First there was NOTHING!

But a tiny point of pure energy that contained the entire universe.

Suddenly the dot of pure energy exploded and out came the universe

The energy cooled down to make tiny particles of matter

After 300,000 years the first atoms – atoms of Hydrogen gas were formed. Clouds of hydrogen swam in space.

Hydrogen and dust pulled together because of gravity to make stars

Earth was formed. It was really hot and it was a ball of gas

1000′s of volcanoes erupted on earth and covered earth in a big cloud of gas, dust and ash

Sun is covered and the earth cooled down

Earth is flooded by rain

Earth gets water. Now there are solids, liquids and gases on earth. The sun is uncovered

About these ads