Category: Teaching Methods
STEM Learning in Action
April 27, 2015 by
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education is growing and thriving at JPDS-NC. On the evening of April 2, four JPDS-NC sixth graders attended the Grand Award Ceremony of DC STEM Fair 2015 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Esther Feron, Sami Himmelfarb, Noa Schleifer and Beri Gershwind swept the Junior Division with 1st, […]
- Project Based Learning
- STEM
Students Build an Arcade in our Cardboard Box Challenge
April 23, 2015 by
Over the course of four months, students at JPDS-NC worked with passion and resourcefulness to design and build arcade games out of recycled materials as part of the Cardboard Box Challenge. The program seeks to foster creativity, entrepreneurship, and design thinking in children, as they work together with their parents and with one another to […]
- Project Based Learning
- STEAM
- STEM
The Great and Challenging Math Carnival of JPDS-NC
April 16, 2015 by
This spring, the fifth grade students in my math class worked to create a math carnival to offer fun challenges in math to their fellow fifth graders. After three months spent planning the project and designing games, the math carnival opened on March 30. It all began when the students suggested preparing a math carnival […]
- Project Based Learning
- STEAM
- STEM
Messy Learning, Clear Objectives: Fifth Grade Teacher Published in ASCD Express
October 27, 2014 by
Our own Lisa Schopf recently published an article about Project-Based Learning in ASCD Express, a professional publication that highlights innovative solutions and best practices in education. In her article, “Messy Learning, Clear Objectives,” Lisa uses a recent project from her Fifth Grade classroom about the American Civil War to examine project-based learning as a valuable tool for engaging […]
- Awards
- Project Based Learning
