HOH: The Montessori Five Great Lessons

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Hands-On Homeschooling: Flying Squads

HOH: ECE (Reggio Emilia, Montessori, and Waldorf Comparison)

The Montessori Five Great Lessons
Sep 27, 2022

handouts

The Beginning - The First Great Lesson

The History of Writing - The Fourth Great Lesson

notes from The Montessori Great Lesson Page by Barbara Dubinsky (missbarbara.net)

NAMC training binder

Five Great Lessons/Cosmic Education & Peace
Lower Elementary 6-9

sample lesson, pp.28-31
"The Second Great Lesson: Life Comes to Earth" excerpt

First Great Lesson: How the Earth and the Universe Came to Be

The Birth and Death of a Star



A Plate Tectonics Puzzle (PDF)
American Museum of Natural History


Older Than the Stars
by Karen Fox

Second Great Lesson: How Life Came to Be

Geologic Periods book set from fossilicious.com

Timeline of Life Calendar

Tree of Life Bundle from Waseca Biomes

gigantic pine cone

ball of finger knitting the lenth of a Titanosaur (37 meters)




Match Those Bones


Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution
by Steve Jenkins


Prehistoric Actual Size
by Steve Jenkins


Apex Predators: The World's Deadliest Hunters, Past and Present
by Steve Jenkins


Amazing Evolution: The Journey of Life
by Anna Claybourne


The Story Of Life: Evolution
by Katie Scott


The Colorful World of Dinosaurs
by Matt Sewell


Bizarre Dinosaurs: Some Very Strange Creatures and Why We Think They Got That Way
by Christopher Sloan


Fossils from Lost Worlds
by Damien Laverdunt and Hélène Rajcak


How Whales Walked into the Sea
by Faith McNulty


The Drop in My Drink: The Story of Water on Our Planet
by Meredith Hooper


The Pebble in My Pocket: A History of Our Earth
by Meredith Hooper


Karl, Get Out of the Garden! Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything
by Anita Sanchez

Third Great Lesson: How Humans Came to Be

tracing paper skulls & rice jars


Early Humans
by Michelle Breyer


The First Drawing
by Mordicai Gerstein


The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux
by Emily Arnold McCully

When Cave Men Painted by Norman Bate

Fourth Great Lesson: How Written Language Came to Be

History of Language Card Set from Clocca Concepts

Fun with Hieroglyphs by Catharine Roehrig

Ancient Egypt Stamps

Make Your Own Papyrus Kit

Sumi-E Board


My Little Book of Chinese Words
by Catherine Louis


Marguerite Makes a Book
by Bruce Robertson

Fifth Great Lesson: How Numbers Came to Be

Step to It Estimation Game




One Day by the Numbers
by Steve Jenkins


Insects by the Numbers
by Steve Jenkins


Earth by the Numbers
by Steve Jenkins


Dinosaurs by the Numbers
by Steve Jenkins


The History of Counting
by Denise Schmandt-Besserat


The Story of Clocks and Calendars
by Betsy Maestro


A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars
by Seth Fishman


Infinity and Me
by Kate Hosford

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