I need to make a lesson plan based off ideas of Maria Montessori?

Question

Please help.

They have to be for pre-school children.

Please give me ideas for activities! Thank you so much!

Answer 1

you can have a lesson on pouring- provide small pitchers and small cups-have the children practice pouring into the cups. Also have a sponge for easy clean-up--then they can squeeze the water from the sponge-if they spill any-into the pitcher and try again. Keep all of this on a tray of some kind in order to contain it--go to www.google.com in and put in Montessori lessons or lesson plans and many hits will come back for more detailed lessons.

Answer 2

In the area of physical science you could set up an activity for children to test whether items will sink or float.

Have a bowl with a line drawn on it to indicate how much water to get. Another container would have items to test. Have two diagrams on either side of the tray with a water proof container above each diagram. Have the child choose an item, put it in the bowl of water and then place it in the appropriate container to sort by whether it sinks (diagram might be a rock under the water line) or floats (diagram might be a cork floating at the water line).

Have a small towel for the child to dry the items before returning them to the original container and a sponge to wipe up any spills.

Part of the process of any Montessori activity is cleaning it up and getting it ready for the next person.

Another similar, but less messy science related activity would be testing for magnetism.

Both these activities are available for the children in my early childhood classroom.

You could also have pictures of items that are living and non-living. The child can sort them out. There could be colored dots on the back to allow the child to check for accuracy at the end of the activity. That is another quality of Montessori activities - the ability to self correct.

Read more about Montessori at my blog:

http://home.earthlink.net/~aletaledendec...

Answer 3

Hello, Im not saying this will be to much help but i do lots of thingsz  with little choildren and i dont quite get what ur trying to ask so please email me at [e-mail] and if u explaine what ur trying to ask i will be more than happy to answer!

Thanks!

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