How Waldorf Approaches Science and Chemistry Specifically; Materials and Resources We Are Using for our Homeschool Chemistry Block Earth, Air, Fire, and Water – The four Ancient Greek elements. This is the lens that we are looking through as we work through our Chemistry Block this year. We’re working through our eighth year of homeschooling…
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Scientific Writing in Middle School
The Introduction of the Lab Report in our Homeschooling With our G7 Chemistry Block, we are introducing scientific writing through lab reports. Scientific writing is different than other academic writing in a few ways. First it uses a third person objective point of view. In some texts, first person point of view may be acceptable,…
pH Rainbows, Probability and Tricky Hydrogen
A Homeschool Science Lesson about pH, Concentration of the Hydronium Ion, and Logarithmic Scales. A pH lesson may be my very favorite lessons. It has all the best things – math, science, and rainbows. This lesson was a two day process, but I’ve been subtly leading us here for a while, on the math side…
Easter pH play
This Easter I had the lofty goal of dying eggs with food, using beets for pink, turmeric for yellow, and red cabbage for blue. Like many things, my kids had different ideas, thus we did not dye eggs. That didn’t stop us from having lots of fun with colors. I took the cabbage juice to…