Primary
7 classes
How many Primary classes does CM have?
Erica and Michelle
Who are the LE Lead EFs?
4 classes
How many UE classes are at Oak Hill?
A compass with whistle
What is the 8th grade graduation gift?
a carefully designed, child-centric learning space intended to foster independence, exploration, and self-mastery
What is the prepared environment
Children learn daily-life skills, such as how to get dressed, prepare snacks, set the table, and care for plants and animals
What is practical life?
these five impressionistic stories serve as the foundation for integrated studies, including the Coming of Life and the Story of Numbers.
What are the Great Lessons
This framework helps students analyze societies across time by examining how people meet needs such as shelter, communication, defense, and transportation.
What are the Fundamental Needs of Humans?
This key element of adolescent programs often includes projects such as farms, businesses, or student-run enterprises.
What is economic independence (or a micro-economy)?
India
Where did Maria Montessori live during WW2?
Children refine skills in perceiving the world through their different senses, and learn how to describe and name their experiences
What is the purpose of the sensorial materials?
this developmental concept still influences how lower elementary children absorb moral reasoning and social relationships.
What are sensitive periods?
Upper elementary students’ strong concern for fairness often leads to class governance systems, group problem-solving, and rule-making.
In adolescence, this term describes purposeful activity that contributes to both the individual’s development and the functioning of a real community.
What is occupation?
a compilation of her speeches from the 1930s, where she passionately argued that lasting world peace can only be achieved through education, not politics
What is "Education and Peace"?
a wooden 3D puzzle that acts as a concrete representation of an algebraic formula
What is the binomial cube?
This instructional strategy moves from naming, to recognition, to recall, and is often adapted in lower elementary for abstraction and concept reinforcement.
What is the 3 period lesson?
This material concretely represents multi-digit multiplication through place value organization, later supporting abstraction into the standard algorithm.
What is the Checkerboard?
Maria Montessori’s vision for adolescents centers on this land-based environment where students engage in meaningful work, community life, and economic independence.
What is the Erdkinder?
To block out the smells in the anatomy hall at the University of Rome
Why did Montessori start smoking?
prepare a childs hand for writing through the tracing of geometric shapes
What is the purpose of the metal insets?
This impressionistic material visually represents the emergence and development of life across billions of years
What is the timeline of life?
This material supports abstraction of long division by physically distributing quantities into hierarchical place value columns.
What are the racks and tubes?
This developmental need is met when adolescents are recognized as capable contributors to society through meaningful, real-world responsibilities.
What is social valorization?
Netherlands
Where did Montessori die?