Title: The Artful Sky: The Celestial Path To Learning
Television weatherman Jack Borden awoke with an epiphany on a crisp morning under the broad sky of the
Appalachian Mountains. He suddenly grasped that the sky served as an artifact that provided an...
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Title: The Artful Sky: The Celestial Path To Learning
Television weatherman Jack Borden awoke with an epiphany on a crisp morning under the broad sky of the
Appalachian Mountains. He suddenly grasped that the sky served as an artifact that provided an endless font
of both beauty and broad-based learning. This resource, available to all, inspired the For Spacious Skies
Program, a cross-disciplinary curriculum spanning the humanities, sciences, history, and, of course,
meteorology. An interdisciplinary curriculum, centered on the multi-faceted study of the sky, soon followed
and found its way into hundreds of schools across the nation. A Harvard University study of sky-based
instruction found that “sky-aware” student surpassed “non-sky aware” students in a number of disciplines,
including literature, visual art, and music appreciation skills.
One offshoot of the For Spacious Skies curriculum can demonstrate the dynamic synergy of language and
image, exploring the learning possibilities o
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