Loosely grouped plant classification cards: matching

What materials are needed for this activity?

For this activity, the directress uses a set of plant classification cards, which are found in the Botany area of a Montessori classroom. Each card has pictures of different types of plants, e.g. evergreen trees, wild flowers, cultivated flowers, etc. There are one set of labelled cards, one set of unlabelled cards and one set of labels. The directress can use a variety of plant pictures that represent the plant kingdom.

How this activity is presented?

The directress invites the child to sit with her on the mat. She tells him that they are going to be working with the loosely grouped plant classification cards. The directress begins by placing the labelled set of pictures at the top of the mat, discussing each one as she does so. She then asks the child to assist her in matching the unlabelled picture to the picture at the top.

She shows the child how to move the unlabelled picture from left to right until she finds the matching labelled card. When all of the unlabelled pictures have been matched correctly, she repeats in the same with the labels, moving them from left to right until she finds the matching one. The child is encouraged to match the remaining labels in the same manner.

What skills does the child learn from this activity?

This activity encourages the child to be patient and have a high level of concentration, it promotes the child’s matching skills, as well as this activity helps the child to instill a love and respect for nature.

What other Cultural activities are presented in the same manner?

• The specifically grouped plant classification cards: matching activity

• The tree shape classification cards: matching activity

• The loosely grouped leaf classification cards: matching activity

• The specifically grouped leaf classification cards: matching activity

• The loosely grouped animal classification cards: matching activity

• The specifically grouped animal classification cards: matching activity

• The Notation Cards: matching activity.

  Looking for more Montessori activities?

  Here is a list of all the Montessori Cultural activities. These include: Nature table, Nature walk, Blindfold trail, Silence game, Living and non-living things, Importance of the sun, Sandpaper globe, Continent globe, Plant classified cards, The tree, The leaf, The flower, and the seed.

  Botany

  • Nature Table

  • Nature Walk (group)

  • Blindfold trail (group)

  • Silence game (group)

  • Sandpaper Globe

  • Continent Globe

  • Living and non-living

  • Importance of the sun

  Plant classified cards

  • Loosely grouped plant classified cards: three-period lesson

  • Loosely grouped plant classified cards: for the reading child

  The tree

  • The tree nature walk

  • Tree puzzle

  • Tree nomenclatures: matching

  • Tree nomenclatures: three-period lesson

  • Tree nomenclatures: for the reading child

  The leaf

  • The leaf cabinet (presentation one)

  • The leaf cabinet (presentation two)

  • The leaf cabinet (presentation five: a naming exercise)

  The flower

  • The flower nature walk

  • Growing plants

  The seed

  • Seed dispersal

  Zoology

  • Field trip

  • Model animals

  • Large pictures of animals in their natural habitat

  • Phylum (presentation one: overview)

  • Phylum (presentation two: focusing on the Phylum class)