Anatomy Review | Waldorf Curriculum | Charlotte Mason Living Books

Even though we are officially done with our Waldorf inspired anatomy main lesson block, there are still some lessons that have yet to be included in our main lesson book. This actually happens frequently when we complete a main lesson block. The lessons are done; however, the work is not complete. Usually that work goes over into the new main lesson block. In this case, it will roll over into the new school year! While this is not ideal, this is our current reality, so, we will begin our school year with work in the two main lesson blocks that completed our previous school year: anatomy and chemistry. In order to do this, and because so many months have passed, we will complete our work by reviewing these lessons using a few resources. We will use the book by Charles Kovacs to review the lessons in the third section of the book called “muscles and bones “. We will also use the new resources that I purchased while we were completing this main lesson block by troll publishers. These are used vintage books that are no longer in print; however, I really liked the way. The books were written, the content and the illustrations. For this main lesson block in anatomy, we primarily use the book muscles and bones by Charles Kovac’s rather than our Live education world of curriculum for anatomy. Since we will be reviewing and completing our work, I will choose a few lessons from the Live education board of curriculum to include in these remaining lessons. Per usual, I like to include Living books and projects and our main lesson blocks and unit studies. I noticed that as my students got older, their enthusiasm for hands-on projects diminished. There is a greater appreciation for demonstrations and experiments rather than hands-on activities. For that reason, I will be including some of the Lesson activities that I hope we’ll have a deeper impact. For instance, for the lesson on digestion and nutrition, we will be logging our meals and observing how we feel after those meals. We will also break down the macro content of those meals to see if we are hitting our nutritional goals. Any illustrations that will be completed with the remainder of the lessons will be self portraits when possible. If those self portraits are not possible, then I will see about sourcing x-rays. I have taken over the years and use those if relevant. As my daughter has not had any x-rays done we will have to use Ones that we have had as a family. And if that is not possible, then reviewing x-rays, rather than looking at illustrations seems like a better opportunity to explore these lessons from a practical perspective. It also allows us to explore at the other sciences when it comes to optics from a physics perspective as x-rays are a form of light wave. When using Living books to support a main lesson block, you can easily get overwhelmed by the amount of content you are covering. The best way I’ve seen to incorporate Living books is using them in one of two ways. The first way is to use them as part of your opening activities. Reading a few pages from each of the books or a picture book or illustrated book is a great way to include those Living books as part of your lesson. The other way is to use those resources as a research material for the teacher. Often I like the way books are written for a younger audience, as they are simplified, easy to understand and relevant for the student. Check out the complete list of resources for anatomy as well as links to all the resources on the blog post that accompanies this video: https://www.pepperandpine.com/anatomy... Check out all the videos in this series as well as video tutorials and Waldorf Anatomy Lessons on the video playlist:    • Anatomy   Find me here:   / pepperandpine     / pepperandpine     / pepperandpine   https://www.pepperandpine.com