Montessori Great Lessons - Passport

This is strictly a Montessori post -- regarding the Five Great Lessons. In my teacher training (www.montessoritraining.net) we were asked to come up with our own new spin on the Great Lessons. Hah! This is a tried and true dyed in the wool steadfast unchanging part of the Montessori curriculum for Lower Elementary. What new could I possibly add? But then I remembered that in Kindergarten at our school the children do a World Tour and they have a paper passport booklet that gets stamped with a stamp representing each country as they "travel" and study places all around the world. And I thought, you could do a Time Travel kind of passport for these history lessons.

Here are some ideas (as I brainstorm this for the first time -- I actually last night couldn't sleep because I got excited about purchasing a stamp collection for this so that next year we can try it). These links are all from addictedtorubberstamps.com.


The First Great Lesson
The Beginning of the Universe and Earth

Day One: The Milky Way



Day Two: Rain




The Second Great Lesson
Life Comes to Earth

Day One: Trilobite



or Fish




Day Two: Dragonfly



or Frog



or Fern



Day Three: Flowering Plant



or Bird



or Mammal




The Third Great Lesson
Humans Come to Earth

Day One: Human Brain



Day Two: Fire



Day Three: Arrowhead




The Fourth Great Lesson
How Writing Began

Day One: Hieroglyphs



Day Two: Alphabet



or Japanese Script




The Fifth Great Lesson
How Numbers Began

Day One: Handprints



Day Two: Number 7