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Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, Urban Transportation and Data Analytics (7th – 8th)
Jul. 24, 2024—Today, our discussion focus was the critical issues in transportation, which include congestion, infrastructure, finance, energy, environment and climate change, equity, resilience to extreme weather, safety, institutions, and human and intellectual capital. Congestion emerged as a major concern, especially considering that the U.S. ranks as the most congested developed country, with costs reaching nearly...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, Science Communication and Immunology (7th – 8th)
Jul. 24, 2024—I can’t believe the week is more than halfway over! Today was a fun and exciting day filled with interactive games and activities. We continued our discussion of vaccines – how they work, why they work, and how they improve the immune system. We also talked about superbugs – how bacteria can mutate, particularly with...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, How to Change the World: Social Movements & Collective Action (7th – 8th)
Jul. 24, 2024—Dear Parents, In today’s class, we continued our journey to understand how social movements create change in our world! Different Disciplines: Approaches to the Study of Social Movements Our focus today was on understanding the unique perspectives and methodologies of cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and political science. Each academic discipline offers distinct research tools and...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, Intro to Engineering (Shuman & Green) (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 24, 2024—Yesterday, students learned about the difficulties of containing water in a dam and controlling its release. They reflected on the importance of precision in engineering. We built on this concept this morning as we started covering Mechanical Engineering and some of its sub-types. Mechanical engineering involves anything that is supposed to move, like engines, robots,...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, Individuality vs Conformity (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 24, 2024—Hello SAVY families! It’s the middle of the week and time for us to think practically about how to engage and employ our individualities, personalities, and unique skills to persuade, inspire, and contribute to the world around us. That means today and our last two days will involve afternoon projects where we get to...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, The Story of you! Autobiography (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 24, 2024—It was a wonderful Wednesday for us on day 3! We started our day by celebrating one of our students’ birthdays and getting into groups with other students that they don’t usually work with and they had to find something that everyone in the group had in common! They came up with common threads such...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, The Science of Senses (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 24, 2024—Hello Parents, Welcome to Day 3 of Sense-sational Science! Today, our focus was on the fascinating world of vision and illusions. We continued to emphasize our S.A.V.Y. class creed and ensured everyone followed classroom rules to create a safe and supportive learning environment. Here’s a recap of our activities and ways you can support your...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, Numbers Big and Small (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 24, 2024—Today was another fun day of math with your children! We explored some of our favorite math concepts today: palindromes, probability, prime numbers, and simple order of operations. At the beginning of the day, we played with palindromes. These are words, phrases, or number sequences that read the same backward and forward, for example: kayak,...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, Intro to Coding (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 24, 2024—Today, we put our coding knowledge to the test for two big coding missions. After we played a little name game, we reviewed our rules and vocabulary for coding. Then we jumped right into our literacy lesson. We asked the question, ‘How is a coder like an engineer?’ The students had very thoughtful answers to...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 3, Creative Contraptions (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 24, 2024—A Wow Wednesday! We are beginning to “work” on more problems with our analytical processes. Ms. Byrd brought a problem from her own backyard and worked through how she came up with a creative contraption to get her canoe out of the Harpeth River after a float. How to safely get a 91-pound canoe out...