Montessori in Nebraska
History of Montessori
Philosophy
Planes of Development
Notable Influencers
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Montclair Elementary, Lincoln Elementary, Russel Middle School, Norris Elementary

What are the Montessori public schools in Nebraska?

100

The neighborhood in Rome, Italy where Maria opened her first school

What is San Lorenzo?

100

Within each child is the man he is to become

What is the secret of childhood?

100

The planes of development that are divided into two sub-planes

What are the first and third planes?

100

The theorists who created a math material used to teach quantities and sybmols and was known for his work with children who had diabilities

Who is Eduard Seguin?

200

The owner of the first Montessori teacher training program in Nebraska

Who is LaVonne Plambeck?

200

The name of the first school started by Maria Montessori

What is Casa de Bambini?

200

The dynamic link between students and their work

What is the teacher?

200

The plane that focuses on imagination and cosmic education

What is the second plane?

200

A German educator and founder of Kindergarten

Who is Freidrich Froebel?

300

The three Montessori teacher training programs that have existed in Nebraska

What is Mid-America Montessori Teacher Training Institute, University of NE-Kearney, and Osiri University?

300

The global organization founded by Maria and Mario Montessori in 1929 to ensure that her philosophy and method would be carried out as intended

What is Association Montessori Internationale? (or What is AMI?)

300

The three freedoms a child has regarding his work

• where they work

• how long they work on any activity

• with whom they work and interact.

300

A term used to describe the child's capacity to soak in everything from their environment during the first plane

What is the absorbent mind?

300

The person responsible for the re-introduction of Montessori to the US and the creation of the American Montessori Society

Who is Nancy Rambusch?

400

The number of Montessori schools in Nebraska

What is 35?

400

The year that Maria Montessori opened her first school

What is 1907?

400

Four skills developed in the Practical Life area

What are order, concentraion, coordination, and independence?

400

A time when a child is especially interested in developing a specific skill or knowledge

What is a sensitive period?

400

Italian physician known for educating the Wild Boy of Aveyron and creating the first IEP

Who is Jean Gusto Itard

500

Maria Montessori's first publication

What is the Montessori Method?

500

Three of the human tendencies created by Maria and finalized by Mario

What are: 

self-preservation ● orientation ● order ● communication ● imagination ● movement/ transportation ● logical/quantitative processing ● social connection ● nurturing ● Self-perfection  

500

The planes that are not divided into sub-planes because they are periods of uniform growth

What are the second and fourth planes?
500

A Swiss eduational reformer who developed the doctrine of direct concrete observation, or sense perception

Who is Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?