Waldorf Anatomy | The Liver | Lesson 15

We continue our lessons for our Anatomy Main Lesson Block in Anatomy with this lesson on the Liver. In Muscles and Bones by Charles Kovacs, the book is divided into three sections with the middle being 'Physiology' which includes a chapter on the liver and kidneys. This chapter covered the roll of the liver and kidneys in a holistic way using the Waldorf pedagogy. While it was interesting, it was not relevant or connecting enough for us to write up a lesson based on the content of this chapter. Undoubtedly, the liver and kidneys and other aspects of anatomy will be revisited in the last section of the Kovacs book which focuses solely on Anatomy rather than health, nutrition or physiology.

Instead, for this lesson we utilized two books to aid us in content as well as illustration inspiration: Anatomicum: Welcome to the Museum Hardcover – by Jennifer Z. Paxton and The Human Body Atlas: How the human body works Hardcover – by National Geographic. We used both books for content related to the Liver and the Kidneys.

For the lesson on the Liver, we used a single page for illustration and written narration. The illustration was simple and only took the top portion of the page and took maybe 20 minutes or less including labeling the illustration. The written content took about 30 minutes to complete. THe main lesson work came several weeks after the lesson was first delivered because of winter break and moving forward with other new lessons and still catching up on old lessons. Getting behind on work always happens starting midway in the main lesson block as it takes longer to complete work than to do a new lesson.

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