Jack McKee

Jack McKee is a builder, designer, teacher and writer. He has worked as a mechanic, remodeled houses, built small boats, designed (and built) equipment used by children's museums, schools and preschools and built an electric car. His design for Builder Boards and for a marble roll are used in children's museums around the country. Plans for a solar hot dog cooker, a marble roll and a fun house mirror (called the mirror steeror) are available free on his website: woodshop4kids.com.

He worked at a Montessori school teaching "shop" to preschoolers, taught woodworking and science for the local parks department, had a traveling science exhibit, worked with autistic children, taught "Woodworking for Kids," a workshop for teachers, and helped kids build boats and cardboard domes.

His articles have appeared in Home Education, Tech Directions, Early Childhood Today and Wooden Boat and on various internet sites. He has written two books, Woodshop For Kids and Builder Boards.