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The Third Great Lesson is fundamentally different from the Second Great Lesson. The Second Great Lesson is about the evolution of all life on Earth, it shows how life has adapted and changed over the 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history. The Third Great Lesson is not about human evolution.
The Fundamental Needs lesson is given to first year students in the Montessori elementary classroom. It is the first chapter of work that the child engages with in the history curriculum after The Passage of Time and it is a leitmotif throughout the entire elementary history curriculum. The purpose of this lesson is to introduce…
The Long Black Strip is a Montessori material that is used to teach children about the age of the Earth and the relative shortness of human history. It is a long, black strip of fabric that is unrolled to represent the 4.6 billion years since Earth’s formation. A small, red strip at the end represents…
Preparing your science shelves can be a lot of work. I remember in my training that these chapters were some of the hardest just because experiments take so much effort to set up. I made this page to take away some of that difficulty for you. These are the science command cards I sell. As…
One of the things I do as a materials creator is consider storage options as part of my initial design. I think about how the materials will be used my students and how much space I’m going to need. I designed these to work in hardware storage drawers, but there are other options! Before we…
This Montessori reading program is much more than a set of card materials. In my opinion, the program IS the book and the materials support the book. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 is theory and science, its what justifies my subtitle “Evidence-Based Reading Instruction for the Montessori Classroom.” I show the…
The Montessori Timeline of Life is an iconic material used in the elementary classroom. It serves as a framework for the entire zoology, botany and geology curriculum.
