As adolescence unfolds, the seventh grader becomes a human chemical factory as scores of "new" chemicals appear in his or her body. The Waldorf curriculum wisely waits until this grade to introduce Chemistry as a formal subject, although aspects of chemistry appeared in the study of photosynthesis in Grade Five Botany and in the study of the Lime Cycle in Grade Six Mineralogy. The primary work done in this year's study is the exploration of combustion and acids and bases.
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Notes by Eugene Schwartz