You still have time to register your student for our high-quality Waldorf science chemistry and physics blocks - Live, on Zoom.
There is still time to register your student for our high quality Waldorf Science Blocks. This year, each course will be live-on-Zoom with our dynamic and inspirational instructors.
Grade 9 Physics with Matthew Messner Grade 8 Physics with Jamie York Grade 7Chemistry with Andi Pearl
Jamie York Academy science courses in physics and chemistry start November 8 and run until December 10, 2021(with vacation November 20-28). Cost is $380 per student.
If you have not enrolled your student in these exceptional 4-week science discovery experiences, do so now so that you will receive any associated student kit in time! We cannot guarantee the timely arrival of any US kit unless you sign up before November 1.
READ ABOUT our Waldorf science instructors' biographiesHERE.
Matthew Messner, Jamie York, and Andi Pearl.
Language and our feeling life instruct us. We consider the emotional qualities with which words such as hot, cold, and warmth are endowed, our lived experiences, and how these relate to physical phenomena. Moving outward, we carefully inspect the world, recall middle school experiments, and perform new demonstrations of our own. Following the path of history, we seek to move from deep appreciation of the qualitative to exacting knowledge of the quantitative, adding precise measurement to critical observation, and transforming knowledge into equations. In our quest to understand the nature of heat, we become familiar with: thermal equilibrium; conduction, convection, and radiation; conductors and insulators; reflectors and radiators; expansion and contraction; temperature scales; absolute zero; melting, boiling, freezing, fusion, vaporization, condensation, and sublimation; solids, liquids, gases, and plasma; and the interaction of pressure, volume, and temperature.
Topics Covered (subject to change):
Heat: Transference, Effects, and Equilibrium
States of Matter and Changes of Phase
History of Thermometry
Ideal Gas Laws of Boyle, Charles, and Gay-Lussac
Thermodynamic Properties: Specific Heat and Latent Heat
Algebra of Calorimetry: Experimental and Theoretical
Heat and Climate: Island, Greenhouse, Albedo, and other Effects
Whereas seventh grade physics concentrates on the observation of natural phenomena, eighth grade physics focuses on how knowledge of those natural phenomena has led to discoveries and inventions that have transformed our society. The block consists of a mixture of classroom demonstrations, group experiments, and individual projects. Students are expected to write clearly about all of this in their main lesson books. We begin with optics, studying prisms, refraction, the generation of color, and lenses. Electromagnetism is introduced by showing how an electrical current produces a magnetic field. This can be used to do work, as the students discover by building their own electric motors, and, perhaps, telegraphs. Next, we concentrate on the idea of pressure, which leads nicely to hydraulics and its many applications. The block ends with the concept of air pressure.
Chemistry, the science of transformation, is taught in the seventh grade not only as a laboratory science, but as a means of extending the students’ observation of the transforming earth and humanity. We will begin with the study of combustion: the transformation of matter through fire. We will observe the process of combustion in different conditions, observing the combustibility of synthetic and natural substances, the relationship of fire to the other Archimedean elements of earth, water, and air, and the relationship between the human being and fire. The study of salts, and their relationship to the balance of acids and bases will come next, with their qualities and relationship in transforming substances in our bodies and environments. Observing the transformation of liquids, the dissolution of matter, and the saturation of substances, helps one to reflect upon the developing inner life of the seventh grade as they seek balance in their inner and outer world.
Math Academy Open and Rolling Enrollment throughout the school year. Your student can join us at any time.
Sign your student up now for our high-quality, active, Waldorf math program for grades 5 through 12, created by master teacher and Waldorf math educator and author, Jamie York, at https://www.jamieyorkpress.com/math-academy/
Here's what a parent of one of last year's students had to say about our math program:
I feel so much gratitude to be part of this program. Thank you and the whole team for doing what you are doing and gifting our children with the opportunity to love math and to develop mathematical thinking and joy that will create ripple effects for other generations to come.
F.S., Grade 5 Parent
We also have TEACHER-ONLY math academy participation options in which teachers participate and learn and then teach their student(s) themselves. Find out more by visiting our enrollment web page at https://www.jamieyorkpress.com/jyma-enrollment-page-start-of-year/
Online Art of Teaching Math workshops for Grades 1-3, 4-5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. Also Projective Geometry, and our foundational workshop, The Wonder of Math.
All are available throughout the year for any two-week period (high school workshops - 4-week periods). Cost is $150 (Wonder of Math is $60.
