The Story of Sugar
 
Montessori Card Set + Spiral Timeline for Climate Justice Learning
 
Sweetness has a history.
And that history lives in our land, our bodies, and our daily choices.
 
The Story of Sugar is a Montessori-based material that transforms a familiar everyday ingredient into a powerful entry point for understanding climate justice, colonization, and global systems. Designed by Montessori educator and healer Koren Clark, this set invites learners to explore how a solar plant became part of an extractive global economy—and how those patterns continue to shape our world today.
 
Rooted in Cosmic Education, ecological literacy, and African Indigenous understandings of time as spiral rather than linear, this material helps students see history not as something finished, but as something still unfolding through us