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Fifth Graders Engage with Physics through Hands-on Machine Models

Fifth graders are learning how simple machines make our everyday lives easier. Starting with levers and gears and progressing through ever-more-complex mechanical devices, students explore hands-on the ways in which simple machines utilize force.

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randeis Hillel Day School offers an engaging, integrated and rigorous curriculum that includes a strong foundation in core academic disciplines: English, with an emphasis on writing, reading and public speaking, Hebrew, mathematics, science, social studies and Judaic studies

In addition, art, athletics, drama, music, technology and outdoor educations are important components to enhance the development of our students’ hearts, minds and souls. Developing social and emotional skills are an important part of our program as well and play an important part in our school culture.

BHDS has an overall student-teacher ratio of 9:1; our low student to teacher ratio enables each child to reach his or her full potential. Our instructional philosophy reflects standards developed by the State of California, national teachers’ organizations and our own faculty.

Brandeis Hillel’s faculty follow the best practices set by experience, a collaborative approach and the most recent findings of educational research.

In the Classroom

  • The I-Search Project: Iconic Sixth Grade Research Delivers Answers

    Posted April 30, 2013

    Each year, our sixth graders choose a subject they're curious about, find experts to interview, spend weeks on investigation, and then produce detailed research papers and visual or digital models. The questions and topics posed are invariably fascinating: this year's include How did Peter Jackson create the on-screen world of the Fellowship of the Ring trilogy?, The Origin and Cultural Prevalence of the Meatball, The History of Amusement Parks, and What is a Linear Particle Accelerator and How Does it Work?...

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  • First Grade Science Unit Ends on a Sweet Note—Ice Cream

    Posted April 4, 2013

    First grade students have been studying "secret formulas," a GEMS unit developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science. Through hands-on investigations, students have learned science concepts such as the repeatability of results, cause and effect, measurement, and observation. In their final experiment, students created a unique formula for their own ice cream.

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