EDU Global Learning Tools

These beautifully illustrated circle cards are designed to be used with a spreading evolutionary "tree" with circles representing each major adaptational change leading to a new category of plants. Each branch is intended to be either/or (2 distinct choices) It's somewhat dated and uses the traditional taxonomy, but very helpful for getting the key ideas of classification based on visible featur. Print in color on cardstock and cut out around outer circle. I did NOT make this! I don't know wh

These beautifully illustrated circle cards are designed to be used with a spreading evolutionary "tree" with circles representing each major adaptational change leading to a new category of animals. It uses the traditional Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species taxonomy. Only goes to the largest group with recognizable characteristics, going to Family for frogs. Print in color on cardstock and cut out around outer circle. I did NOT make this! I don't know who did, but it is a

Alternative images for the Montessori People of the Zones lesson. Meant to show images of how people live in different climatic zones: Polar, Temperate, and Tropical. Beautiful pictues to be cut out and organized onto 3 separate charts. I did not create this, but I think someone in my Montessori Northwest 2019 class did after we saw how out-of-date and potentially offensive the traditional charts were (which showed "temperate" people as totally modern, "tropical" people still living traditional

Lower Elementary intro to animal research: start by placing a picture (or model) of an animal in the center, and placing one question under it. Try to answer the question using the color-matched answer cards. If you don't know, research! Then move on to the next question, and keep going until the animal is surrounded by questions and answers. Then, children can lay out one question with all of the possible answers spread beneath it, and then categorize animals by placing them beneath the correct