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.
Here you will find the reader in pdf chapter by chapter in English:
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 German – Spanish – 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.