In this magical space, our innovative, exciting, project-oriented curriculum covers a wide variety of science topics such as electricity and magnetism, engineering, potential and kinetic energy, chemistry, and physics. Our laboratory contains equipment that we don't take to regular schools, so homeschool students often have the chance to do experiments they would usually never see until college, including exploding bubbles, million-volt lightning bolts, chemistry with real chemicals, and hundreds of other experiments that have been created in our lab.

Many of our homeschool lessons are different from the ones we present at regular schools, because they are still being developed and fine-tuned. As a result, Mr. Mac often departs from the planned curriculum to adapt to the responses of the students. He may create a new experiment just hours before a class, or fabricate a new story on the fly, incorporating story elements suggested by the students themselves. So there are often delightful surprises and unexpected discoveries in these classes.

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How to Get the Most out of Your Child's
Rock-it Science Homeschool Classes:

Understand how the lessons are structured. In the first ten or fifteen minutes of the class, we introduce the basic concepts of the lesson, followed by the story, then the hands-on experiment. If a child is late and misses the introduction, they will still enjoy and learn from the rest of the lesson, but they may not understand the context. They may also miss important instructions about the experiment. Classes begin on time, so be sure to arrive on time.

Observe the classes. We encourage parents to observe the classes and take notes if they wish to further explore the topic later at home. For the students themselves, there's no notetaking, no memorization, no homework, and no tests in a Rock-it Science lesson. In this stress-free environment, children get to try things out, make mistakes, make corrections, and discover how to solve problems, without the risk of being "wrong." This develops and maintains their enthusiasm for science, which is our primary objective.

Encourage stress-free followup. It may take some time for children to process what they've experienced during the lesson, so we strongly discourage parents from "testing" their child's retention of facts or concepts following the class. Instead, we suggest that you invite them to draw a picture about what they did in the lesson, or write a story about it as if they were writing to a penpal. The child may also wish to write their own ending to the "Jack and Jill" story that was included in the lesson.