Category: Social Studies
Kids Delve into the Issues – An Election Project Update
October 6, 2016 by
As the JPDS-NC Election Project 2016 continues, students in all grades have been conducting research on their grade’s assigned topic and engaging in deep conversations with guest speakers, with students in other grades and at other schools, and with each other. Sixth Grade – Political Messaging: Sixth Grade students produced videos summarizing the positions of the major […]
- #JPDSNCElectionProject
- #KidsVoicesCount
- #ThisIsWhy
- Project Based Learning
Students Speak Out – An Election Project Update
September 29, 2016 by
As students delve into their grade-specific issues for our Election Project, they’ve also been exploring the question of whether adults should listen to the opinions of children when it comes to these important issues and the election in general. We asked the children: “You can’t vote, but should you have a voice in this process?” […]
- #JPDSNCElectionProject
- #KidsVoicesCount
- #ThisIsWhy
- Project Based Learning
Sixth Graders Study Political Advertising as part of JPDS-NC Election Project
September 29, 2016 by
Sixth graders at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital have a special opportunity this year – we are the oldest children in the school and it’s an election year. We are in charge of coordinating a “voter’s guide” for students throughout the school, and even get to listen to guest speakers about […]
- #JPDSNCElectionProject
- #KidsVoicesCount
- Student Stories
Kids’ Voices Count: JPDS-NC Election Project 2016
September 22, 2016 by
We are excited to launch Kids’ Voices Count: JPDS-NC Election Project 2016. This schoolwide election project will focus on giving life to the rights and responsibilities of children as social and political actors in the public sphere. Students will be creating a voting guide for adults in our community in which they will give voice to their […]
- #JPDSNCElectionProject
- #KidsVoicesCount
- Parent-Child Learning
Fourth Graders Adopt Chicks as Class Pets
June 15, 2016 by
At the beginning of the semester, the fourth grade Explorers class raised the idea of getting a class pet. It was decided that students needed to earn it, so their teacher created a chart where they earned points for doing and acting in ways that showed responsibility. By the end of April, they had earned […]
- Environmental Education
- Student Stories
Comparing Communities: Kindergarteners Engage in In-Depth Study of Social Insects
May 24, 2016 by
This year in Kindergarten, our Project Work curriculum was intentionally designed to use the theme of Community. In the second semester, we focused on comparing our community to those of social insects including ants, bees, and wasps. We specifically chose social insects because they naturally connect to humans as they share common characteristics that include […]
- Environmental Education
- Project Based Learning
- Visual Arts
Making Thinking Visible Through the Use of Materials
May 4, 2016 by
If you walk in the front door of South Campus this week, you might see First Grade students and teachers digging through big boxes and recyclables to be used for prototypes of homes in a polar climate. You also might see Kindergarten students manipulating clay to create their final model of a queen bee. In the sadnah (studio), you might […]
- Design Thinking
- Environmental Education
- Project Based Learning
- STEAM
- Thinking Routines
- Visual Arts
Changemakers: Kindergarten Students Redesign South Campus Library
February 10, 2016 by
The grand re-opening of the South Campus Community Library occurred last week during the Kindergarten Bayit Patuach (Open House). With a flourish and a “one, two, three, cut!” every Kindergarten child used scissors to snip a long ribbon stretched across the library. The ceremony culminated months of hard work by the three Kindergarten classes as […]
- Design Thinking
- Project Based Learning
- STEAM
Rock Creek Park Project Highlights Multi-Faceted Learning
January 28, 2016 by
Walking among towering trees, a fish-filled creek, and a brick-lined Peirce Mill, parents visiting JPDS-NC’s South Campus on January 21st could have thought they were taking a ramble through Rock Creek Park. Instead, they were appreciating first graders’ scaled model of the natural treasure that lies not a mile from our classroom doors, the culmination of […]
- Design Thinking
- Environmental Education
- Project Based Learning
- Washington D.C.
From Tomahawks to Tipis at the Third Grade American Indian Museum
January 12, 2016 by
The third grade classes made an American Indian Museum. All fifty-one students in the grade worked to research and make displays about different Native American tribes. We learned about the Sioux, the Cherokee, the Northwest Coast, and the Iroquois tribes. For our museum, the students made everything from tomahawks to tipis to feather headdresses. Students […]
- Project Based Learning
- Student Stories
