Early Humans Bundle (Montessori Inspired)

A bundle of activities to help your Montessori learners discover the wonder of evolution and early humans.

How to draw early humans

A set of step by step instructions and coloring pages for early humans

Humans or Primate sorting

Human or Primate? What is true for both? What is true for one group? What isn't true at all for either!

This sorting activity and follow up activities help students see commonalities between both. 

Lucy Reading Passages

Lucy is estimated to have lived about 3.2 million years ago.

In this resource, designed for my own class of neurodivergent students I have made 2 versions that introduce Lucy.

1 x simplified story of who Lucy is in large and smaller print

1 x cloze excercise (with answers provided)

1 x Lucy reading divided into question headings

1 x marking rubric to go with the above for the child to use to help guide them in a research project

Timeline of People

Trace the history of people through various time periods from the humans who lived with mammoth to today.

Using the red colour that is also found in other Montessori cosmic lessons this timeline draws out the history of humans introducing both key facts in human development along with interesting events and peoples. 

I designed this pack to help my 9-12 neurodivergent learners who find research with books overwhelming but are ready for more indepth study of humans.

Includes events from different places, cultures and continents.

What makes us human?

1 x one page script of 'what makes us human' for adult 

4 x versions of booklets (3 at 10 pages each, one version can be adapted to have whatever amount of pages needed). Students complete

Hominin or Hominid?

This visual sorting resource has been designed for young children, aged 6-9 to help get them have a clear understanding of what a hominid is compared to a hominin.

Timeline of early hominins

This Montessori inspired timeline introduces children to SOME types of early humans.

Students learn about

● Australopithecus

● Homo erectus

● Homo habilis

● Homo sapiens

● Neanderthals