Links for Montessori Learning and Education-

Montessori Standards/Curriculum

Montessori World has ideas for practical life, sensorial, math and much more

http://www.montessoriworld.org/default.htm

Montessori Pantops School

Overview of curriculum ages 18 months through middle school years

http://www.montessoripantops.org/curriculum.html

Moteaco Montessori Scope and Sequence

Provides great information ages 3 through 12.

http://www.moteaco.com/albums.html

Sam Placentino School

Montessori standards ages 6-9 covers everything from reading to computers

http://www.holliston.k12.ma.us/placentino/montessorigradestandards.htm

Dictionaries and References:

Encyclopedia Smithsonian

Easy for children to use, answers frequently asked questions

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/

Dictionary Reference Includes dictionary, thesaurus & grammar

http://dictionary.reference.com/

Etymology Dictionary-look up the root meanings of words

http://www.etymonline.com/login.php

Dinosaur & Geology Dictionary

Great Pictures and kid friendly for your child.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/

Discovery Homework help and more

Study tools, learning adventures, fun and games

http://school.discovery.com/students/

Picture Dictionary

Picture Dictionary by Little Explorer

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html

Your Dictionary This dictionary is available in different languages-about 300-provides much more than a traditional dictionary http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Your Dictionary-Thesauri

Great links for homophones, anagrams, thresauri, quotes, writing systems

http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction1.html#thesauri

Animal and Plant Kingdom

Animal families for kids-

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/index.html

Classification of Living Things

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/classification.htm

Enature

Enature is a wonderful site-great for identifying animal families.

http://www.enature.com/

Squirrels of North America

Help identifies and locate species of squirrels-some photos

http://spot.colorado.edu/~halloran/sqrl.html

Squirrel Place-lots of great links

http://www.squirrels.org/faq.html

Great Pictues of Squirrels

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/eastern_gray_squirrel.htm

Birds

http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Animals/intermediate/birds-01.html

Whales-Voyage of the Mimi links

You can probably find this series at your local library. I fits in very well with the Great Lessons approach

http://www.amphi.com/~dgrimble/mimi.html

Whales-Voyage of the Mimi Website

This 5th grade class has great ideas using the video seriers-Voyage of the Mimi

http://www.centennial.k12.mn.us/rle/mimi/intro.htm

Ladybugs are fascinating insects. They eat insects that are harmful to our plants and trees. Here is a great Ladybug or Ladybird site-

http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/ladybugs.htm

Cell Biology

This site shows the structure of both plant and animal cells-the cell cycle and mitosis.

http://www.cellsalive.com/toc.htm

Microbe Zoo

There are great micro photos of microbes. This is a great micro biology site.

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/

Discovering Dinosaurs

Imax images, the changes in information about dinosaurs from 1800's to modern times.

http://search.eb.com/dinosaurs/dinosaurs/index2.html

Discovering Dinosaurs Activities

Teacher's guide, adopt a dinosaur, what did you eat for dinner tonight, great fun learning projects

http://search.eb.com/dinosaurs/dinosaurs/study/index.htm

Pictures of Dinosaurs

Lots of pictures of dinosuars

http://www.search4dinosaurs.com/

The Dinosauria

Great illustrations, facts and links for exhibits and other sites

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html

Science

Physical Science 3 to 6 year olds

"Physical Science Curriculum for 3-6 Year Olds in a Montessori Classroom"

http://www.meadowmontessori.org/physicalscience/index.html

First Grade Science-it's great for even preschool

http://www.captain.clayton.k12.mo.us/curriculum/Links/1stGrdLinks/1stGrScienceLinks.html

Super Simple Science Experiments-includes water cycle, how do seeds grow?, how does mold grow? and much more

http://www.kidzone.ws/science/index.htm

Geography-

U.S. Physical Geography-from the Andirondacks to Yucca Mountain

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/1uspg.html

Geographia-

http://www.geographia.com/

Kids Geography for Canada and the United States-

http://www.kidzone.ws/geography/index.htm

Virtual Geography Game-

http://www.geosense.net/kgeo1/geostart.aspx

Mountains-what is a mountain, learning games, and much more. This site is kid friendly.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/mountains.htm

Here are some more links from this site-

Rivers- http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Grivers.html

Rain Forest- http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Grainforest.html

Earth Studies

Biomes

The Worlds Biomes

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

Biromes-according to ages 3 to 6 years old, 6 to 9 years old, 9 to 12 years old, and 12 and above

http://www.wasecalearning.com/biomeflowcht.html

Cyber Zoo Biome-

http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/biome.html

Virtual Library for Kids-

http://www.graf-es.eu.odedodea.edu/virtuallib/virtuallibrary.html

The Earth For Kids has 100's of links for any kind of science- http://www.cbel.com/the_earth_for_kids/

Tessellations-

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/

Which shapes tessellate

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/downsvw/Work/Logo/LogoI3.htm

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