Middle School students offered argumentative summaries, presentations, and various discussions on bringing back extinct animals last week. They explored possibilities and any unforeseen complications based on recent scientific research using various reading passages and resources. In this presentation, a few students took a playful approach to the idea of designing the return of a couple of prehistoric dinosaurs with some alterations, while considering a possible foreseen habitat, food sources, and survival rate. This exercise could be considered a “cosmic question.” In the Montessori philosophy, a “cosmic question” is an existential question meant to spark wonder and curiosity.
