Connecting kids to the cosmos – the Big History Project

Bob Bain is an award-winning associate professor at the University of Michigan — Ann Arbor with joint appointments in the history, educational studies, and museum studies departments. Bain is also chair of the university’s secondary teacher education program and a faculty lead for the Big History Project, an international research and design group that has developed an online curriculum, assessments and professional development to enable high school students to study 13.82 billion years of cosmic history — from the Big Bang to the Future.

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