Life the universe and everything

                                                   

         Life the Universe and Everything 

This week, we completed an assignment about life, the universe, and everything. While doing so, we learned about different kinds of creation myths, like Ex Nihlo, Earth Diver, Emergence, the Dismemberment of a Primordial Being, and the Splitting or Ordering of a Primordial Being. All of these myths serve as a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. The creation myths, that I found, come from different cultures in which they describe their own version of how earth and people came to be. Overall, I thought this assignment was interesting to do. I never knew that there were so many different types of myths and that every culture has its own story of how the world came to be. I, personally, agree with the universal myth of the Big Bang theory considering that in the big bang theory we find that was and the earth is made up of dead stars. Also, that is one of the best explanations of how certain materials such as metals and metalloids are present here on earth.   I think this would be a good assignment to give my future students because they can learn about other cultures, how everyone believes in something different, and how it is okay to not always agree with what everyone else thinks. In addition, I could add to this assignment and have students find a creation myth, pick the one that they think is the most interesting, and then share it with the class. They would have to include what culture it comes from, so that way all of my students can learn a variety of myths but also learning from different cultures.