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SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – Artistic Programming (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 25, 2019—We had a blast today! We began the day with a coordinate plane activity where we learned about inequalities and how to use them to code environments for our organisms. Then we had a lot of work time to prepare for tomorrow’s open house. We’re really proud of what we’ve accomplished and excited to show...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – Matter Mysteries (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 25, 2019—Hello SAVY parents! Another great day here at summer SAVY is in the books! We began today’s session with a review of previous learning. Students were able to complete a concept map about matter that connected all of the vocabulary terms we have been using all week. In the first experiment, students were able to...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 4 – Games Galore (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jul. 25, 2019—We began our day with another Guess Again and boy are we getting super skilled at figuring probability! This time we had unifix cubes, and our guesser was familiar with the colors they can come in because they are used in the classroom. So we found that having background knowledge is an advantage to figuring...
Career Connections at SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 3 – Science and Ethics of Genome Editing (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Today we focused our class time on genetically modified plants and animals. We started the day by discussing if we thought gene editing in these organisms “good” or “bad”, tying these opinions back to the ethical theories we learned about yesterday. We also had a guest speaker come to the class. Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton...
Career Connections at SAVY 2019: Session 3, Day 3 – Behavioral Economics (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Another great day of SAVY! Today we analyzed a few combinatorial games. We talked about how game theorists study these games by observing how many potential moves are left and which spots they could be in. Then we can determine if the current setup is a winning state or a losing state for either player....
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – Stellar Astronomy (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Another mind-blowing day! We began our day in the computer lab to work on our stellar evolution computer simulations again. Students enjoyed their movies and also learning about how astronomers speak and use evidence. Most students were able to design and complete data acquisition and analysis by the time lunch rolled around 🙂 After lunch...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – Power of Poetry (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Happy Wednesday, parents! Our notebooks are beginning to fill up, which must mean that we’re already over halfway done with our week together! This morning, students worked on a creative writing exercise with “PoetryCubes” (adapted from the wonderful game, StoryCubes.) In groups, students were given a special “image-dice,” and asked to roll their dice, choose a...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – The Great Debate (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2019—What an amazing third day! We spent the morning analyzing primary source writing from multiple perspectives about “Is Civil Disobedience Ever Justified as a Method of Political Change?”. The analysis included a scavenger hunt where her students were to find as much evidence as they could where the author used the rhetorical devices of ethos,...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – Biology of the Brain (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Today may have been the busiest day yet in our Biology of the Brain classroom! We are now at the midway point of our week and today was all about synthesizing the information we’ve learned so far, while giving students the opportunity to further build on that foundational knowledge. We started class in the usual...
SAVY 2019: Session 6, Day 3 – Artistic Programming (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2019—Today was another fun-filled day of learning. We enjoyed a mini-lesson about the coordinate plane that gave us the knowledge we needed to start creating a digital environment for our organisms. This afternoon, we visited a medical imaging lab where we got to see computer programming in action and learn about the importance of teamwork...