Human Fertility
For use with 10 - 12 year olds
Grades 4-7

Coming of Age Curriculum Series

Lessons in Support of the Inner and Outer Changes in Puperty and Adolescence

Linda E Knodle

Softound

$37.95

We are happy to be able to offer Linda Knodle's newest editions of her original Human Fertility curriculum. She has now created two separate curriculum guides to better support the needs of different adolescent age groups.

In this first volume, offered in support of students in grades 4-7, Linda guides teachers, parents and community leaders through a detailed curriculum offerings designed to create a warm understanding of the physical and emotional changes the students are experience. Further, Linda helps adults weave a welcoming community around these teenagers.

This is truly a heartfelt work which has already graced the lives of hundreds of adolescents and the adults who care for them.

Contents:

Part One: Preparation for the Course

Introduction

• Sample Rotation for Middle School Blocks of Study
• Daily Main Lesson (Sample)
• Elements of the Lesson

Preparation: Before Classroom Work

• Preparing Yourself
• Preparing the Faculty
  • Letter for Faculty or Adult Community
• Preparing for Parents
  • Letter for Parents
• Preview Questions for Interviews
• Overview
• Preparing for the Students
  • Details of the Day
  • Spelling List
• Resources for Teachers and Parents
  • Resources for Students

Part Two: Lesson Plans

Part Three: Supplements

Lessons for Middle School Issues
For use with 13-14 year olds, grades 8-9

Coming of Age Curriculum Series

Classroom Lessons Supporting the Development of Life Skills, Self Knowledge and Social Grace

Linda E Knodle

Softbound

$37.95

Linda's second volume in the Coming of Age Curriculum Series focuses on a semester's worth of topic-oriented lessons to be delivered to students in grades 8-9. These lessons are open, enlivening, and nourishing of the upright human being within both students and adults. There is an artistry and playfulness that informs all these less and makes them so very beautiful and healthy for both the students and adults. We really can't recommend them highly enough.

Contents:

Part One: Preparation for the Course

Introduction

• Sample Rotation for Middle School Blocks of Study
• Daily Main Lesson (Sample)
• Elements of the Lesson

Preparation: Before Classroom Work

• Preparing Yourself
• Preparing the Faculty
  • Letter for Faculty or Adult Community
• Survey
• Preparing for Parents
  • Letter for Parents
  • Developing Values
• Preview Questions for Interviews
• Overview
• Preparing for the Students
  • Details of the Day
  • Spelling List
• Resources for Teachers and Parents
• Resources for Student

Part Two: Lesson Plans

Table of Contents for Lesson Plans

Student Lesson Book Entry Sequence

Optional Lessons for Day Five through Eighteen

Student Lesson Book Entry Sequence for Optional Lessons

Part Three: Supplements

Teacher's Evaluation of Student

Student's Evaluation of Teacher

Reviewing the Work

About the Author

Hathor the Moon Cow

Sex Education - A Creative Approach

Alan Whitehead

$22.95

I think this journey into human sexuality - and how to convey its physical, social and spiritual realities and outcomes to children (at around age 12 for direct teaching) is one of the most refreshing approaches I've ever read. In the author's usual humorous and relaxed style, virtually every topic of importance is touched upon - actually, delved into far beyond the surface - in a way that is open, engaging and utterly unabashed. I can imagine this one volume being of enormous help to both teachers and parents as they guide children into a healthy adulthood.

Service at the Heart of Learning

Patti Smith & J. Eva Nagel

An AWSNA Research Project

Folder Bound

$5.00

An exploration of "Service-Learning", it's relationship to successful Waldorf school "Side by Side" approaches, an evaluation of such programs and descriptions of their contents.

Survey Report
AWSNA High School Research Project

Artistic and Academic Portfolios, Alternatives to College, Scholarship Web Sites, Social-Emotional Skills

Compiled by David Mitchell

Spiral Bound

$16.00

This book summarizes results of a questionnaire sent to every Waldorf high school in North America in 1999. Schools were asked to report (1) their guidelines for senior artistic and/or academic portfolios, (2) whether and what alternatives to college they suggest to their seniors, and (3) what specific social/emotional skills they work on with their students, including stress management, time management, sexuality, mental health, conflict resolution, study skills, communications skills, human boundary issues, listening skills, and life management. Some additional research undertaken by the AWSNA High School Research Project Committee is also included.

I Find My Star
Coming of Age in Modern Life

Tamara Slayton
with Linda Knodle
and Anne-Marie Fryer

Softcover, spiral bound

Coming of Age curriculum for Grades 5 through High School

The I Find My Star curriculum guide has gone out of print. Linda Knodle is in the process of developing a new, clearer and better curriculum. She expects it to be available Spring 2007

This pioneering work is a breath of fresh air and a very positive development within the realms of Waldorf Education. Here is an approach to "sex ed" that warmly meets the needs of adolescents within our modern world - in body, soul and spirit.

This fully illustrated, three week lesson plan is adaptable for grades 5 through high school and includes collaborative work with teachers, parents and other caring adults involved with the education of teens.

Its key themes are:

• A Sense of Destiny - Finding One's Star
• Puberty and Adolescence in the Past
• Puberty and Adolescence in Modern Life
• Modern Stereotypes about Teenagers
• Communication, Cooperation and Relationship
• The Beginning of the Male and Female Fertility Cycle
• The Signs of Puberty and a Woman's Fertility Cycle
• The Signs of Puberty and a Man's Fertility Cycle
• When Does Life Begin?
• Creating a Modern Initiation Experience

Fully illustrated with black & white photos, color lesson book art, and patterns for creating teaching aids for in-class use.