From the campfire to enzyme kinetics

Created by Dirk Rohde | 03/21/2017 | Teaching Practice

In 2013 Dirk Rohde published a teacher's resource book called Chemistry Reader on how to establish chemistry teaching at Waldorf schools. The handbook has been written especially for beginners and covers chemistry in grades 7 to 12. We are publishing the complete Chemistry Reader here as a pdf document, with kind permission by Dr. Rohde.

Dr. 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.

The Chemistry Reader has been published in German, English, Russian and Spanish.

>Click here for the English version.

>Click here for the Russian version

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.