Dirk Rohde encourages teachers to develop their own chemistry curriculum. The reader is not meant to be a book of recipes. The teaching of chemistry aims to connect to the pupils life; as does every subject taught at Waldorf schools.
The author draws on a wealth of resource material by various teachers who have influenced chemistry teaching from the beginnings of Waldorf education to today. You will find an overview for chemistry in grades 7 to 12, lectures by Eugen Kolisko, Rudolf Steiner and Frits H. Julius and a lot more material. There is also an extensive literature list.
Chapter 1 An orientation to developing chemistry instruction in Waldorf schools
Chapter 2 Eugen Kolisko: Excerpt from «Auf der Suche nach neuen Wahrheiten» (In Search of New Truths), The Development and Design of Science Instruction In the Waldorf School
Chapter 3 Eugen Kolisko: Excerpt from «Auf der Suche nach neuen Wahrheiten» (In Search of New Truths), First lessons in chemistry
Chapter 4 Rudolf Steiner, Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man, GA 350, 22. September 1923
Chapter 5 Frits H. Julius: «The World of Matter and the Education of Man», Work in the 8th Class
Chapter 6 Manfred von Mackensen: «Phenomenological Organic Chemistry», An introduction based on the inner nature of substance in the plant world, Class 9
Chapter 7 Dirk Rohde: Excerpt from «Was heisst 'lebendiger' Unterricht?» (What Is 'living' instruction?), The Carbon Cycle
Chapter 8 Frits H. Julius: «Salt, Acids and Bases, Chemistry in Grade 10»
Chapter 9 Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy, GA 313, 8. Vortrag, 18. April 1921
Chapter 10 Günther Heuschkel: Excerpt from «Metallprozesse» (Metal Processes), Electrolysis of Metals
Chapter 11 Gerhard Ott: Excerpt from «Grundriss einer Chemie nach phänomenologischer Methode» (Outline of a Phenomenological Approach to Chemistry), The Chemical Effects of Electricity
Chapter 12 Wolfgang Schad: Excerpt from «Chemie an Waldorf Schulen» (Chemistry in the Waldorf Schools), Towards a Rational Chemistry
Chapter 13 Gerhard Ott: «Grundriss einer Chemie nach phänomenologischer Methode» (Outline of a Phenomenological Approach to Chemistry), Lemniscatic Periodic Table of the Elements (according to Friedrich A. Kipp)
Chapter 14 Manfred von Mackensen: «Prozesschemie», A model free introduction of chemical formulas
Chapter 15 Rudolf Steiner, The Agriculture Course, GA 327, Lecture 3, 11. Juni 1924
Chapter 16 Manfred von Mackensen: «Formic acid and oxalic acid», The «alchemist experiment»
Chapter 17 Klaus Frisch: «The Metamorphosis of Clover acid and Formic acid», Suggestions for dealing with a curriculum statement by Rudolf Steiner on chemistry lessons in the 12th grade
Chapter 18 Faculty meetings with Rudolf Steiner, 1923
Here you can find the Chemistry Reader in Russian
Dr. Dirk Rohde is a lecturer for Waldorf education as well as a teacher of biology and chemistry at the Waldorf School in Marburg, Germany