Waldorf Block: Sixth Grade Astronomy

Explore the topics in the listing below during this block!

Living Lessons are video lessons where a teacher leads the class through the main lessons for this grade. You can use these lessons as examples to follow for your own teaching or can use them as supplements to your own teaching (we all need a break now and then. I would have loved to have these available on days I was ill or was taking care of my fussy baby). Scroll down to the class listings below to see the full syllabus and to view some free samples!

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #1: Intro to The Horizon and Ecliptic

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #2: The Movement of the Sun During the Year

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #3: How the Calendar Year Arose

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #4: Shadow Clocks

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #5: Stars that Move, The Star that Doesn’t

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #6: Is the Earth Round or Flat?

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #7: Polynesian Ways of Navigation

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #8: Using Longitude and Latitude

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #9: Wandering Stars and Fixed Stars

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #10: How the Stars and Moon Move Across the Sky

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #10B: Painting of the Earth and Moon from Space

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #11: The Precession of the Equinoxes

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #12: The Great Mystery of the Platonic Year

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #13: The Relationship of the Planets to Each Other

Writing for Lesson 13

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #13B: Drawing the Pentagram of Venus

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #14: The Moon

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #15: The Tides and Other Moon Related Phenomena

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #16: The Contributions of Pythagoras

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #17 – Ptolemy’s Geocentric Model

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #18 – The Heliocentric Model of Copernicus

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #19 – The Eccentric Model of Tycho Brache

6th Grade Astronomy Block Lesson #20 – Johannes Kepler’s Correction of Copernicus

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Your Instructor


Nicholas Andrea
Nicholas Andrea

Nicholas Andrea now resides in the lush woodlands of northern Delaware with his family after spending the last six years teaching at the Asheville Waldorf School in North Carolina as a grades, music, and aftercare teacher. Nicholas earned his Waldorf Elementary and Music certifications at Sunbridge Institute in Spring Valley, NY. He is passionate about the Waldorf curriculum and believes in its ability to raise capable, compassionate, and creative human beings. After the birth of their son last October, Nicholas and his partner Cassie wanted more time at home with their baby which has led Nicholas to finding Earthschooling.

Nicholas is also passionate about music, speech arts, and history. Known in other circles as “The Bard,” Nicholas’s lifelong love of music has led him to a variety of instruments including world percussion, dijeridoo, flutes of various kinds, and Irish and Scottish bagpipes. He is also a published poet, and he spends his spare time plumbing the mysteries of world history in order to understand how we got where we are and where we go from here.


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