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Fall SAVY 2022–The Great Debate for Grades 5 & 6
Oct. 24, 2022—Day 3: Saturday, November 5 Hello families and great debaters! Today we started out our day by preparing our arguments for our final mace/presentation debate. This style debate more closely resembles a persuasive appeal to the audience and the moderators and allows the students a chance to practice their individual skills in persuasive writing and...
Fall SAVY 2022–Biology of the Body for Grades 5 & 6
Oct. 24, 2022—Day 3: Saturday, November 5 Congratulations to your students on completing the SAVY Biology of the Body Course! Over the past couple of weeks, students have been introduced to numerous different systems including immune, cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological systems. We explored each of these system through the lens of physicians who take care of patients...
SAVY Fall 2022–The One to Beat for Grades 3 & 4
Oct. 24, 2022—Day 3: Saturday, November 5 On our last day of class, students learned about the largest collection of pennies gathered. They created and graphed the collection data on a line graph, looked for points of intersection, and determined what that indicated. Then, they became record makers themselves and set a goal for their own personal...
Fall SAVY 2022–Engineering Design for Grades 3 & 4
Oct. 24, 2022—Day 3: Saturday, November 5 Wow! It is hard to believe that the session is over! I am so proud of all the kids accomplished over the course of the last few weeks! They have really grown! Today’s focus was to take all of the information and skills they have learned, and use that to...
Fall SAVY 2022–Playing With Words for Grades 1 & 2
Oct. 24, 2022—Day 3: November 5 I’m happy I got to meet some of you at the open house this Saturday. Working with your students over the past few weeks as been so rewarding! For our final class, we focused on persuasive writing and analogies. I introduced persuasive writing with the hamburger model of a paragraph. We...
Fall SAVY 2022–Mathematicians in History for Grades 1 & 2
Oct. 24, 2022—Day 3: Saturday, November 5 Galileo, Fermat, Gauss, and Germain: These are the mathematicians we discovered and discussed on our last morning in our Fall SAVY course, Mathematicians in History: Patterns, Order, and Relationships. These greats and their work ranged from the precise calculations used in scientific experiments to the more “extreme fun and games”...
Summer SAVY 2022/Session 6 – Psychology for Rising 7th/8th Grade
Jul. 25, 2022—Friday: Hi everyone, Happy last day! I wish I could tell you all about our awesome week together and fantastic final projects at an in-person Open House, but I will do my best to convey it all here! Today we translated our research proposal templates (the ones I described earlier this week) into academic posters –...
Summer SAVY 2022/Session 6 – Paleobiology for Rising 7th/8th Grade
Jul. 25, 2022—Friday: Wednesday: Happy Hump Day, and welcome to Day 3 of Conservation Paleobiology at SAVY! We started today by applying the method we learned about at the end of the day yesterday (Leaf Margin Analysis) to pictures of fossil leaves in order to work out the average temperature at two time intervals during the Paleocene-Eocene...
Summer SAVY 2022/Session 6 – Robotic Engineering for Rising 5th/6th Grade
Jul. 25, 2022—Friday: As a community, we discussed time management as not only a life skill but a group skill. We talked about ways to break up big projects and why having clearly defined roles and tasks is important, making sure there are checkpoints along the way, and when to ask for help. We also explored how to...
Summer SAVY 2022/Session 6 – The Great Debate for Rising 5th/6th Grade
Jul. 25, 2022—Friday: Hello families and great debaters! Today was our final debate entitled The Great Debate: To Vend or Not To Vend. To prepare for this debate, we reviewed the things we’ve learned over the week about key debate strategies, we took notes on the specifics of the roles of each speaker, and began to research...