“Experiential Learning” is one way Waldorf teachers describe their approach to young people. This term takes on especially powerful facets in grades five and six in science. By then the child becomes a self-motivated learner, capable of independent projects and research. History turns from mythology to actual factual accounts in Egypt and Greece; form drawing becomes sophisticated geometry; and the sciences from stories, connections to nature, to real experiments and the handling and analyzing of the things of the world.