About Northwest Prep Projects
At Northwest Prep all coursework is designed and implemented within the context of a Driving Question such as What Does It Mean To Be Informed?, or Is Progress Worth The Price?, or How do Society and Water Interact? All traditional subject areas are incorporated into an engaging semester-long process of inquiry, reflection, and demonstration. 
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NWP's Inquiry Team incorporates and integrates specific areas of traditional disciplines to help students achieve the academic outcomes for each long term project. The process and the products generated in the course of each project provide the evidence used to assess each student. Growth and proficiency towards the expected academic outcomes of each project, as well as each student's overall development in Northwest Prep's Leadership Skills are gauged by Portfolios, by reflection, and by demonstration and presentation.

​Some examples of past projects:


Example - ​Curriculum Strands for the Fall-Spring 2015 Project, 
HOW DOES "WHAT IS" DICTATE THE FUTURE? - by IT focus:

Mathematical Systems

-Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 

-Reason abstractly and quantitatively

-Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

-Model with mathematics

-Use appropriate tools strategically

-Attend to precision

-Look for and make use of structure

-Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Language and Communication

-Develop skills to comprehend and paraphrase complex texts

-Make use of domain specific vocabulary and conventions

-Locate relevant information and evaluate it to determine author’s bias, purpose, and level of credibility

-Distinguish between sound and fallacious reasoning in both the consumption and production of media

-Organize findings from a wide array of sources, and synthesize to arrive at an original and sound conclusion 
Social Systems

-Explore, analyze and synthesize information and ideas regarding significant current and historical events

-Develop critical thinking and problem solving skills in a historical, economical, political and sociological context

-Create and articulate ideas and opinions

-Develop citizenship skills
Natural Systems

-Engage in defining problems and designing solutions for projects in their communities.

-Learn about the interdependence of science, engineering and their resulting technologies.

-Discover that scientific and technological advances can have a profound effect on society and the environment

-Study occurrences of cause and effect; mechanism and explanation in ways and contexts that they can relate to

-Observe patterns of forms and events, attending to the questions they prompt about organizational relationships and the factors that influence them