tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680527.post116023384545282278..comments2023-04-26T03:25:30.451-06:00Comments on A Montessori Journey: 3-Period LessonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680527.post-1160611869126286632006-10-11T18:11:00.000-06:002006-10-11T18:11:00.000-06:00Hi,I like this idea of applying the three period l...Hi,<BR/>I like this idea of applying the three period lesson to doing projects with older children. I think this will work well with my nine and eleven year olds. <BR/><BR/>So, period 1, look at the information: read books, visit people and places of relevance (museum exhibitions etc.). Your quote says experimentation is done in period 2 but maybe some experiments, which present information, are appropriate to period 1.<BR/><BR/>Period 2 is trickier I think ... children need to use the information in some way in order to get more familiar with it ... maybe this is the time for Montessori classification activities and other activities aimed at organising what they've learned. I guess this is when children will pose questions stemming from the information gathered in period 1 and research answers.<BR/><BR/>Period 3, present the information to others in some form: tell others about it, write about it, make a poster or lap book or model. I've noticed that 6-12-year-olds do this spontaneously: pretty much every time one of my children's friends comes to visit, they will at some point start a sentence, “Did you know ...” and proceed to tell me some obscure fact about clouds or animal welfare or car engines... whatever they have been studying lately.<BR/><BR/>I don't remember any period 2 in the project work I did at school. First we would plan our presentation (period 3) then we would read and research what we needed for our presentation (period 1 but thinking all the time about period 3). I think children enjoy the period 1 work more if it is done for its own sake: to gather information.<BR/><BR/>My 11yo ds recently decided to do a project on global warming. Over the last few days since I read your post on the three period lesson, I've been reading books on global warming with him. It's been very relaxing just reading and discussing without asking myself all the time, “What can I get him to do with this?” I think his own questions and discussion will direct me as to when he's ready to delve deeper and what form that should take.Montessorihomeschoolinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12182243182420185647noreply@blogger.com