In this course, students will investigate Montessori materials from the multiple perspectives of purpose, design, function, history, use, and place in the curriculum. By examining the importance of each material and the purpose of each facet of its design, the course aims to foster presentational mastery and effectiveness, especially of key lessons and guided discovery lessons. This course requires extensive lab time to practice presentational fluency, effective communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making as they relate to advancing student and educator alike along the continuum of theory to practice and specifically from the concrete to the contextualizing abstract relationships.