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Dr. Rebecca Keller is first and foremost a mom. She wrote Real Science-4-Kids for her three kids and for her friends’ kids. She started homeschooling her three children somewhere between doing laundry, planning meals, changing diapers and finishing her Ph.D. She remembers the days when she was furiously working on her dissertation and nervous about homeschooling her kids. She wanted a science curriculum that would present real science in a way that was easy for her kids to understand and easy for her to use. She went to a local homeschool conference, and failing to find what she was looking for, sat down one weekend to teach her oldest daughter a little physics. Her little weekend project has grown into what it is today — a small independent publishing company called Gravitas Publications, producing her now award-winning science program Real Science-4-Kids.
Real learning is deep enough to stimulate understanding. This can only occur when a student has had enough time to absorb the material being presented. For this reason the RS4K curriculum focuses on providing the essential building blocks for science and does not overwhelm a student with too much information. When one building block has been understood, then the student is ready to begin on the next one.
Rebecca's goal in creating the Real Science-4-Kids curriculum is to teach kids about science from a very early age so they will have much better science comprehension by the time they are ready for high school and college level classes.
Her curriculum is designed to help kids make sense of science, find it fun to learn, and make it easy for their parents and other educators to teach the subjects of chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy and geology. She believes all of this has been accomplished with the unique Real Science-4-Kids home school science curriculum.
Yet Rebecca never planned to become a children's book author and launch an independent publishing company. She shares how her personal and professional paths have unfolded.
In May 2013, Rebecca's youngest child, her 21 year-old son took his own life having struggled with a rare, progressive disease that was diagnosed when he was 15. She shares a bit about mother's intuition, how life is really about our stories, two types of tragedies we encounter in life, and how her son Christopher's death has forced her to focus on what she wants to do with her next life "act." This includes choosing to become her childhood hero; the 2015 launch of her Dr. Beakers character and a full roll out of The Christopher T. Keller Foundation.
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By Eric TonningsenDr. Rebecca Keller is first and foremost a mom. She wrote Real Science-4-Kids for her three kids and for her friends’ kids. She started homeschooling her three children somewhere between doing laundry, planning meals, changing diapers and finishing her Ph.D. She remembers the days when she was furiously working on her dissertation and nervous about homeschooling her kids. She wanted a science curriculum that would present real science in a way that was easy for her kids to understand and easy for her to use. She went to a local homeschool conference, and failing to find what she was looking for, sat down one weekend to teach her oldest daughter a little physics. Her little weekend project has grown into what it is today — a small independent publishing company called Gravitas Publications, producing her now award-winning science program Real Science-4-Kids.
Real learning is deep enough to stimulate understanding. This can only occur when a student has had enough time to absorb the material being presented. For this reason the RS4K curriculum focuses on providing the essential building blocks for science and does not overwhelm a student with too much information. When one building block has been understood, then the student is ready to begin on the next one.
Rebecca's goal in creating the Real Science-4-Kids curriculum is to teach kids about science from a very early age so they will have much better science comprehension by the time they are ready for high school and college level classes.
Her curriculum is designed to help kids make sense of science, find it fun to learn, and make it easy for their parents and other educators to teach the subjects of chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy and geology. She believes all of this has been accomplished with the unique Real Science-4-Kids home school science curriculum.
Yet Rebecca never planned to become a children's book author and launch an independent publishing company. She shares how her personal and professional paths have unfolded.
In May 2013, Rebecca's youngest child, her 21 year-old son took his own life having struggled with a rare, progressive disease that was diagnosed when he was 15. She shares a bit about mother's intuition, how life is really about our stories, two types of tragedies we encounter in life, and how her son Christopher's death has forced her to focus on what she wants to do with her next life "act." This includes choosing to become her childhood hero; the 2015 launch of her Dr. Beakers character and a full roll out of The Christopher T. Keller Foundation.