![]() ![]() Building an electric motor is a common practice in grade 8 in Waldorf Schools - a motor that can light a bulb or spin a paper clip is a thrilling accomplishment and sets the young mind to pondering what conductivity, metal, and electricity can achieve. Building on volumes and I & II by the same author, for sixth and seventh graders, this third volume leads students to comprehend electromagnetism and hydraulics through experimentation. Here is a book that describes how to teach in this way, and how to comprehend phenomena so that demonstrations have this goal of discovery for all students. Skills of observation and of clear-thinking result and new discoveries tend to sink more deeply into young people’s understanding. Experiments are presented and middle-schoolers and high schoolers are asked to think, after close observation, about what might be happening in a given, physical event or demonstration. In Waldorf schools, phenomenologically demonstrated science is the norm. This is true of all subjects and particularly powerful in the arena of science. There is a different quality of understanding when a youngster learns through experience instead of through the memorization of principles discovered by previous scientists. Many experiments are included with each section. ![]() Volume 3, for Grade 8, continues the explorations in sound, light, and heat plus hydraulics, hydrostatics, and aeromechanics. A Phenomena-Based Physics: Sound, Light & Heat, Vol. ![]()
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