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Eric Heil on an Introduction to Natural History: Beauty, Science, and Philosophy for Boys
Natural History is a largely outdoor, discovery-based class for our lower school students, where they see the Valley as a textbook and the seasons as its chapters.
Eric Heil has taught Natural History to his third graders for decades now, and in this rebroadcast from 2021, he unpacks the class's lessons of close observation, pattern recognition, scientific inquiry, identification, wonder, and the foundations of philosophy—all among 8- to 11-year-olds.
Chapters:
3:10 Personal observation and discovery
5:35 The outdoors: an alternative textbook
9:55 Boys and nature journals
19:49 Intrinsic…
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