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8th Grade Block Descriptions for 2011-12

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Physics and the Industrial Revolution (Sept. 7-Oct 7)

Our experimental investigations will continue into
(a) sound (speed, frequency, and means of propogation)
(b) light (refraction)
(c) heat (temperature and pressure)
(d) electricity (switches, circuits, technical applications, electric motor, and electromagnetic induction)
(e)...

Beginning of the School Year

Monday, September 5, 2011

Here we are on the eve of a very important transitional year for the students, their final year in the “grade school”. In the Waldorf School that means reaching the final year of that stage of development in which the students are addressed first and foremost through their imagination and life of feeling. It also means their final year...