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Career Connections at SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Aerospace Engineering (Rising 7th)
Jul. 12, 2019—Aerospace engineering was a wild week, and has finally come to a close. As promised, we did launch rockets, and fortunately without any mishaps! We reviewed and discussed the relations between the engineering design process and project requirements. Students spent the rest of the morning discussing their flights, failure mechanisms, and risk assessments. Students watched...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Unpacking the Magic of Harry Potter (Holland W.) (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 12, 2019—I can’t believe how fast this week went! It has been such an honor to work with such talented young witches and wizards. For our warmup this morning, the kids were tasked with coming up a catchy headline that might be found in The Daily Prophet. They really know how to sell a headline! Next, we analyzed...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Unpacking the Magic of Harry Potter (Sarah B.) (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 12, 2019—Happy Friday, SAVY parents! It was so wonderful to meet many of you today at the Open House! We had a wild and wonderful last day here in the Harry Potter-verse. To start the day, we did an icebreaker where we composed Daily Prophet (the wizarding world’s newspaper) articles and shared them with the class....
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Puzzles and Problem Solving (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 12, 2019—On our final day in Puzzles and Problem Solving, we looked at a couple of gold coin problems where students had a certain number of weighings on a balance scale to try to determine which coins were fake. Students quickly solved the nine-coin problem and set to work on the five-coin version. You would think...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Journey Through Time (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 12, 2019—We had a wonderful last day in Journey through Time! We started with a review of the Boston Massacre and then turned our attention to the Boston Tea Party. From there, we launched right in the Continental Congresses and the writing of the Declaration of Independence. We discussed what it said, what it did (and...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 12, 2019—Wow! What a great week! I will miss this group very much. It was a pleasure getting to work with such engaged students. To cap off the week, we continued working on some number and fraction puzzles. These puzzles required students to do math operations with fractions. It was so interesting to listen to the...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Circuitry, Systems, and Design (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 12, 2019—What an exciting and action-packed, final day of Session 3 SAVY! Right off the bat, students were given an example of how their understanding of electricity and circuitry is harnessed in our information and data age. How do you store or represent information using electricity? We shared only a part of this code.org video, but it...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Intro to Coding and Robotics (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 12, 2019—Coming soon!
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Creative Contraptions (The Wesbys) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 12, 2019—This was a fantastic week of learning, inventing, collaborating, communicating, creating, and problem-solving. Our students were awesome. They were challenged to develop deeper connections between the concept of “System” and “Simple Machines.” Students were encouraged to answer the following questions this week: Do we need simple machines? What simple machines are not made yet? What...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Creative Contraptions (Ms. Tyson) (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 12, 2019—One of our favorite things to explore this week as been Rube Goldberg’s way of taking a simple task and turning it into a mind-boggling complexity of turns, drops, spins, pulls and more. How does he do it??? Today we read from the book, Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day, to get us ready...