I just finished making all the cards for our rocks and minerals activities, which will be freely available in the afternoons after the first time I present the materials and explain how to use them.
We just finished the Hadean and are ready to start the Archaean, so we will be drenched in geology for the next few weeks.
The sorting and classification activities I made using the cards are for independant use and are all self-checking. Maria Montessori called that 'control of error'.
Here is one of our montessori puzzle maps.
The activities for these are limitless, but here is a picture showing some I've just finished preparing.
Invertebrate madness is yet to come!
Like the geology stuff above, this basket will join our shelves and be freely available once we reach the appropriate geologic era. It isn't that clear from this picture, but that basket is full of assorted shells for the classification/sorting activities.
Learning about landforms with sculpey, cards, and blue water. I've always thought that Montessori hit on a brilliant way of teaching landforms by showing their opposites, like lake/island, strait/isthmus etc.
Here's yet another use for the puzzle maps.
Push-pinning the countries/continents so they pop out and pasting them on a big blue sheet to make and label your own maps. The kids already tried this out, it was a big hit.
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