Summer of NewCAJE 2021

This session will explore ways to integrate science into your existing curricula using hands-on labs, field trips, and guest speakers. Incorporating science helps reach students and their families on a different, deeper level and inspires them to connect with Judaism in a new way. Each week, our families receive an electronic parsha summary, discussion questions, and hands-on labs relating the weekly portion to science. We will share examples of email blasts, labs, and field trips on topics as diverse as how to make a rainbow, build a Tower of Babel, explain the plagues, do the math for the census, and describe how different oils harden a heart. We will share how we utilize this program for a variety of age levels and how it moved from an in-person elective to a remote program during the pandemic.
This project is part of a grant from "Sinai and Synapses" and is one of four projects in the country in this funding cycle.