Organic Chemistry: Experiment #9 Fats and Oils
The Wonder of Plants: Green plants are the only living forms that have the extraordinary ability to produce their own food and therefore are also able to feed animals and human beings…
- excerpt from gr.8 main lesson book
‘The Waldorf approach differs from mainstream science education by which the teacher presents a hypothesis and the students prove it using a scientific method. This process is linear and does not stimulate thought and science is not flat knowledge, formulae, names. It is curiosity. Instead Waldorf begins with a phenomenon that the students observe and write what they saw. The class discusses the observations, thinks about them, wrestles with them and then strives to come to a conclusion.’
From ‘Windows Into Waldorf’ by David Mitchell.
