Mr K Science Academy

Unit 1: Basic Periodic Table Stuff: Lesson 1: "Introduction" and "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures".

Anita is very committed to making her tummy flatter. (For the record, I think it's fine, but I totally support her goals.) She's been learning some kind of tunny-flattening dance, some sort of zumba or belly-dancing thing. She sure has fun with it. :)

My wife has learned how to make my family's traditional bread pudding recipe for Thanksgiving and Christmas. She loves it so much, we are making an extra batch today even though we are between those holidays. As a child, my family stuffed the turkey with it and called it stuffing. I didn't realize until later on in life, when I was an adult, and was having Thanksgiving with a different family, that stuffing in a bird is apparently NOT normally sweet and yummy. The bread pudding stuffing has apples, raisins, brown sugar, cinnamon, and other yummy stuff. You can make it in a baking dish like this or stuff a bird with it and have the bird juices add their flavor to it.

My Wife the Squirrel-Whisperer: Attempt #2 (Nilwood, IL USA)

My Wife the Squirrel-Whisperer: Attempt #1 (Nilwood, IL USA)

Teaching Students to Make Scientific Observations of the World Around Them

This video shares some insights into why young people are thinking some of the things they are thinking these days, as related to me by a very brilliant student of mine some years ago.

More adventures with bunnies! Bunny harnesses arrived from Amazon, but they were too small for our bunnies. My seamstress wife fixed that. Here she is outside sharing sunshine and fresh air with them. In her generation in the Philippines, the animals around were not pets, they were all there for a purpose. The pigs were for pork. The chickens for eggs, etc. Only in my step-daughter's generation did kids in her village get the luxury of pets. My wife is loving these bunnies like a little girl with her first pets because they are her first pets. She's very cute with them.

Something sinister is happening with science fairs. Find out yet another way that COVID propaganda is sabotaging education and working to dumb down young minds.

Announcing Elementary and Middle School Classes for Fall 2021 and the Latest Website Overhaul

Announcing the Opening of Fall 2021 Enrollment and Appearance on the AmEdFM Podcast.

We've been blessed to be able to offer scholarships for the "90 Days to CLEP" Program starting June 1st! Also, more fake science from the past to put fake science in the present in perspective.

Yesterday was one of those days in Spring when Winter tries to pretend it's coming back. It wasn't my FIlipina wife's first snow here in America, but as we watched it coming down through the windows of our home, I explained what most Americans learn as little kids, that each snowflake is a unique crystal structure, unlike any other. I showed her pictures of individual snowflakes on the internet and she was so inspired that she had to go outside and observe individual flakes for herself examining them on her gloves and sleeves.

A belated Easter post: Last weekend, my wife found an albino, red-eyed bunny in our yard. It docilely came up to her and ate from her hand. It must have escaped or been dumped by previous human owners. Pet rabbits have NO survival skills so we rescued it. My son Ian noticed that right after we saved it, a dog came into our yard and followed the rabbit's scent trail, everywhere it had been in our yard. Welcome to the family, little Snow White. (Yes, our house is a little trashed in some of the pics. We are in the process of moving.)

Dr. Sean Brooks is a prolific author. His finger is on the pulse of the American educational system, and he is not afraid to be honest about the dire status of the patient. On Episode 1 of the Education Revolution Show, set to post on March 20th, you’ll be able to hear show host Jon Klement hanging out with Dr. Brooks discussing what’s going on in American education and what can be done to fix things that have clearly gone wrong. Listen in to hear Dr. Brook’s clear, simple insights, as well as his real life experiences in the system, and most of all, his heart for education and for our next generation. Dr. Brooks is the host of the AmericanEducationFM.com Podcast which can be found at www.americaneducationfm.com. His books are easy to find on Amazon.com.

The purpose of education is SUPPOSED to be to prepare our young people for adult life, and to be the next generation of adults in our world. Critical thinking is needed more and more to navigate propaganda and ulterior motives presented as "science". How can this delicate topic be approached with teenagers?

Science Fair! Think About It!

Catch your students/kids doing science!

Why George Washington Carver is on the Wall of Science.

Joseph Priestley never took a single science class in his life, but he discovered photosynthesis and more. Your students have already had more science classes than he ever did.

Isaac Newton is presented here for the purposes of explaining WHY I choose the people whom I choose for the Wall of Science.

Here's another item that often causes confusion in science students. Not everything that is microscopic is the same size. Here's the link that I refer to in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xTKxbIElU

Piaget's Theory can really help you assess what your student needs and how to present things in a way that your student "gets it" best.