Description

The Life Cycle of a Mosquito Activity describes the four distinct life stages of this flying insect.  Although male mosquitoes have a proboscis, only the female mosquito draws blood.  This blood provides the eggs with proteins.  Female mosquitoes take blood from humans and other mammals. This unique material takes the Child from the verbal story; developing the sensorial (concrete) understanding of the material with the objects (sold separately); to the abstract, incorporating images and labels.  Colour-coded material, coded according to the Montessori Animal Kingdom.  Mosquitos are invertebrates, and coded yellow.

Contents: Life Cycle of a Mosquito Activity

• 1 x control chart.
• 1st working chart called the labeled object working chart.  Use with the objects (objects are sold separately).
• 2nd working chart called the unlabeled working chart, use with the image and labels.
• Replace the objects with the 4 small images.  When ready, add the 4 labels onto the unlabeled working chart.
• The Child matches the real image of each life cycle of the mosquito, to the labeled image on the 4 activity cards.
• 1 set of 3-part cards, classifying the nomenclature for the very young child.
• 4 Definition cards with:
  • a control card,
  • a card with an incomplete phrase
• All contents are sold in an A4 plastic envelope, used for storage.

The teacher can also use the definition cards as an aid as s/he tells the story of the life cycle of a mosquito activity to very young children.