Cosmic Education: Potato Clock

We have recently begun Montessori Cosmic Education portion of our curriculum. There are 5 Great Lessons: The Creation Story, The Timeline of Life, The Timeline of Humans, The History of Math, and The History of Language. The Great Lessons are developed to give the child a perspective with which to understand their place in the world.

Our first two Great Tasks were to discover the rules of the universe that all things must follow and to study that everything has a purpose and a contribution to make in the development of others. This link is a good resource for understanding Montessori Cosmic Education.

The first thing we did was create a potato clock. We bought a simple kit at our local hobby store. Kaylee and her daddy put together and studied the potato clock.

Reading the directions together and discussing how it works.

Connecting the pieces.

Putting the wires in the potato. It works!

They also used salt water to work the clock.

There are some great resources out there for The Great Lessons. This is my favorite resources HERE. More lessons coming...