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Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Urban Transportation and Data Analytics (7th – 8th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Today, we had an extensive discussion on urban transportation, particularly focusing on the interplay between land use and transportation. Our conversation delved into the nuanced relationship between transportation and mobility, emphasizing the crucial role of urban mobility and its far-reaching societal implications. Additionally, we explored various sources of transportation revenue and the distribution of funds...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Science Communication and Immunology (7th – 8th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Today, we focused on how to communicate some of the science we’ve learned already. As a large group, we brainstormed different people a scientist might have to communicate with and came up with a great list – other scientists in the lab, your boss, investors or funding agencies, news reporters, friends, and family. Each target...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, How to Change the World, Social Movements & Collective Action (7th – 8th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Dear Parents, Today, we continued our exciting journey through political anthropology by exploring the origins of the political terms “left” and “right” and examining how these concepts have influenced societies and movements for change throughout history. The Origins of “Left” and “Right” in Politics Our lesson began with a look at the French Revolution, where...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Intro to Engineering (Green & Shuman) (5th – 6th)
Jul. 23, 2024—After a brief overview of what we talked about yesterday, students returned to finalizing and testing their trebuchets. Then, students dove straight into Civil Engineering. In the morning, we learned how supertall skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia are designed and built. Students became Structural and Construction...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Individuality vs Conformity (5th – 6th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Hello SAVY families! Today, we continued our discussions on individuality and identity and began to explore the unique way that people see the world and express themselves. We talked about all the different means of human expression and how we make our mark on the world – whether through creative arts like painting and...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, The Story of you! Autobiography (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 23, 2024—And just like that day 2 has come to an end! Today, we started our day with a word sort. Students were given a list of 40 words and had to sort them into groups based on their own criteria. After discussing what criteria they used to sort (a few groups did small, medium, and...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, The Science of Sense (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Hello Parents, Welcome to Day 2! Today’s focus was on the fascinating world of sound and how it is produced by vibrations. 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. Thank you so much for completing last night’s homework with ninety...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Numbers Big and Small (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2024—The students had great enthusiasm today again in Numbers Big & Small! We started the day seeing what 1 thousand, 10 thousand, 100 thousand, and finally 1 million jelly beans look like. The 1 million canister was much taller than a Volkswagen beetle! The class created a room-length number line from 1-10,000. They measured to...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Intro to Coding (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2024—What amazing strides we are making in our coding knowledge! We started the day reviewing our code definition and were introduced to the vocabulary words, ‘computer programmer’ and ‘sequence.’ We practiced sequence and code by pretending that Mrs. Lewis was the programmer and the students were the computers. She programmed the class to do the...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Creative Contraptions (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2024—Another great day! It was amazing to investigate today! With our hypothesis in hand, we completed our experiment by observing the steepness of inclined planes with surfaces of various degrees of smoothness and roughness and the resulting speed of two identical cars. We considered the data and understood that while rough surfaces inhibit motion, the...