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Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Exploring the Human Mind: Intro to Psychological Research (7th-8th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Dear Exploring the Human Mind parents, It is such an honor to be spending the week co-constructing knowledge with your fabulous students. We began the day with introductions, where I got a small peek into your students’ individual interests. We then engaged in some peer-to-peer class norm-building and interviews about previous psychology experiences, interests,...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Wildlife Ecology (5th-6th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Good evening! Today we were very busy, first getting to know each other with a form of Bingo, and then we went over classroom expectations in terms of behavior. We posted those expectations and referred to them when necessary. We started our lesson with them working in small groups to address a very important question,...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Intro to Neurobiology (5th-6th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Dear SAVY families, Greetings! This is Wen, instructor of Intro to Neurobiology for this week. It was very lovely meeting our students for the first time today. We had an official introduction in which we talked about where we are from, our hobbies, our past experience with neurobiology, and what our students hope to...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Tremendous Transformations in Writing (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Greetings! I hope that you have had a fabulous day! I know we have! We started by getting to know each other and doing some team building. We had fun learning about each other and getting to know more about each other. We then talked about developing characters, and they began to develop...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Programming and Robotics (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Welcome to Programming and Robotics! It was such a pleasure meeting our talented students; we have a wonderful week ahead of us. We established classroom rules as a community and explored decision-making strategies. Today we talked about evaluating decisions and learned to rank them (minor, moderate, and significant). As a class, we evaluated real-world scenarios/decisions, then talked...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Chemical Spill (Pilote) (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Today was a really great day at SAVY. We were ready to dive into what we like about science and so much buzz was in the room, it was so exciting! An ill-structured problem was presented today that had students really thinking about the consequences of an accidental chemical spill in Nashville. Students first gathered...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Chemical Spill (Lowe) (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Oh no! A truck carrying an unidentified liquid has crashed over the bridge along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville! This week in Chemical Spill, we are investigating! The students are trying to figure out what chemicals spilled, how to keep the ecosystem safe, and how to keep Nashville up and running. Through experimentation with...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Engineering Design (Lewis) (1st-2nd)
Jul. 15, 2024—Our first day with Engineering Design got our week started with lots of new learning! Students started with learning our class rules and how they can earn Flex Points throughout the week. Students will earn Flex Points when they ‘flex their intellect’ and make connections with their learning. Our goal is to beat the points...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Engineering Design (Allison) (1st-2nd)
Jul. 15, 2024—We had a great first day! We started by getting to know one another and sharing our background knowledge about engineers. The students made great connections to their experiences with bridges throughout the day. Our engineering design week is based on a story called Javier Builds a Bridge. We read the story throughout the day and learned how Javier...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Earth Science Rocks! (1st-2nd)
Jul. 15, 2024—It was a delight getting to know our Geologists today. After introducing ourselves, we went over the norms for the week ahead, which will enable us to work productively together. We started with discussions on what scientists do and the many different fields of science. The “I Have Who Has” game gave us opportunities to...