Hello Rock-it Science Families! After more than thirty years as a beloved science teacher, John McChesney (known to his students as “Mr. Mac”) has retired. If you know any of Mr. Mac's former students, please share this news with them. If you or your child has been fortunate enough to experience Mr. Mac’s classes, the [...]
Feeding the People by Mr. Mac It’s fun to learn about the most powerful creatures on earth and how they live. Children like to study the tyrannosaurus rex because it is such a dangerous looking creature and it is at the top of the food chain. Telling children about something like grass at the bottom [...]
Morality in Rock-it Science Stories by Estelle Gow, Rock-it Science Webmaster Yesterday Mr. Mac told me about an article he had just read about how the Inuit people use storytelling to teach their children to control their anger. When a child misbehaves or gets angry, the parents don't shout or scold. Instead, they teach children [...]
Half-Day Summer Camps for Ages 5-13 REGISTER NOW Get the Early Bird Price Before April 1st! General Camp Info & Schedule Camp Descriptions How to Register Join our Email List New to Rock-it Science? Think of us as Mister Rogers Meets MythBusters! At Rock-it Science, we’re all about trial and error learning. Our Director, Mister [...]
This summer, we have a completely new camp experience, tailored to older kids. Instead of a series of different one-hour lessons, kids will have extended time to explore the experiments in-depth in our one-of-a kind Inventor's Laboratory. It's full of amazing equipment, tools, and materials for experimenting, making, and discovery in a trial-and-error environment. Nobody [...]
Kids LOVE to take things apart! (Especially if they don't have to put them back together again.) In the last few weeks of the Winter Session Maker Lab, Mr. Mac let the kids take apart all kinds of machines that people had donated to us -- old computers, hard drives, printers, hair dryers, boom boxes, [...]
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could give our children the drive to ask questions and pursue answers until they are satisfied? To a young child, the world is like a huge room full of tables loaded with every imaginable [...]
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid [...]
Good news! In order to make it easier for teachers to get started with Rock-it Science, we've decided to make ALL of the lesson videos on our web site FREE to view. After watching the video, if you'd like to present the lesson yourself, then you have the option of downloading the Teacher Guide. All [...]
After posting several lesson videos on this web site, I decided it might be useful to explain to teachers not only HOW to present a lesson, but WHY I chose to do each lesson the way I did. So I've added a short "Tips for Teachers" video to our free lesson, "Catapults." It explains why [...]
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