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Posted: June 25 2007 at 11:25am | IP Logged Quote Kristin
For those of you who have decided to purchase montessori globe(s), would you mind sharing with me where you got yours and (if you have it already) what you think of the quality/detail?

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Posted: June 25 2007 at 4:50pm | IP Logged Quote Meredith
Hi Kristin, the two I purchased are from Alison's and I'm hoping they will arrive on Wednesday

Anyone else received theirs yet, Theresa??

I know many are going to be making theirs and we chatted about it here!Enjoy!

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Posted: June 25 2007 at 4:57pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
I have the Alison's globe that just has the colored continents.
It is well-made, but small (about 6 inches diameter I think. I don't have it with me here). The detail is adequate, but not great, but I don't really think that is the point of this globe. I think of it more as a continent recognition tool, a tool for understanding the relative locations of the land masses, and a tool for understanding that the earth is spherical, not flat like the puzzle maps.
For detail I plan on getting a regular (non-montessori), larger globe.

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Posted: June 25 2007 at 5:08pm | IP Logged Quote Meredith
lapazfarm wrote:
I think of it more as a continent recognition tool, a tool for understanding the relative locations of the land masses, and a tool for understanding that the earth is spherical, not flat like the puzzle maps.


Yes, that's the progression of the presentations.
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For detail I plan on getting a regular (non-montessori), larger globe.
We have a really fun one that we got from the Discovery store when plugged in it shows the constellations in the dark, pretty nifty!

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