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A teacher resource book for human physiology and anatomy for Steiner-Waldorf Classes 7--8 (ages12--14).
Description
A wonderful overview of human physiology and anatomy for children which is written in Charles Kovacs' warm and expressive style.
Readers will explore health and the human body, including sleep, warmth and food; physiology, including circulation, digestion, breathing and the senses; and anatomy, including bones, joints and muscles.
This is a fascinating and engaging resource for teachers and home schoolers, recommended for Classes 7 and 8 (ages 12–14) in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum.
Author
Charles Kovacs was born in Austria. He left his native country in 1938 at the time of the Anschluss and joined the British Army in East Africa. After the War, he settled in Britain, and in 1956 he took over a class at the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh, where he remained a class teacher until his retirement in 1976. He died in 2001. His extensive lesson notes have been a useful and inspiring resource material for many teachers. He is the author of Parsifal and the Search for the Grail (2002), The Age of Revolution (2003), Ancient Greece (2004), The Age of Discovery (2004), Ancient Rome (2005) and Botany (2005).
