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Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 3 – Intro to Programming (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 18, 2018—Hello SAVY Parents! We had a very productive Wednesday in our Intro to Programming course! Today, we learned about the importance of teamwork! We started the day reflecting on what it means to work as a team. How do I work with others to complete a task? What roles can I take on in a...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 3 – Character Creations (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 18, 2018—Dear Parents, We have had a very busy day of puppet construction! The students have worked so hard in their teams to create puppets that are true to their original designs. At the beginning of class, we had a show and tell of materials and decorations that I brought in as well as the ones...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 3 – Becoming a Botanist (Rising 1st)
Jul. 18, 2018—While reading The Magic School Bus Plants book , we began wondering how the stem delivers the water and nutrients to the all the parts of the plant. We decided that if we could somehow see evidence of this function, we could better understand how this element of the plant system supports the plant. So...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Our day started with a bang! Students were introduced to a fun ice-breaker known as “The Line,” where individuals must chose a character or item that might be found in a pre-selected location, describe that character or item, and them embody its physical essence in the space. One by one, we added to the scene,...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Rising 7th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Already two days have flown by! The class is really picking up steam now as we further analyzed simultaneous, complete information, discrete, finite, non-cooperative, 1 on 1 games. This morning we looked at the prisoner’s dilemma with a twist. What if people have different levels of guilt from stealing or sharing? Can we gain an...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Marvelous Mechanisms (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Today in class, we continued our work on pulley systems. We made the leap from analyzing given systems to designing our own to satisfy relative motion requirements. We discovered how to make an output object move at a rate a whole number multiple of the input object’s rate. We discovered how to make both the input...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Stellar Astronomy (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Today in Stellar Astronomy, we did a mixture of lecture and lab! The start of our day was all about basic stellar evolution where I showed pictures of various stages of star lifetimes. These pictures, as I had hoped, really got students thinking and asking questions! First we start with clouds of gas and dust...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Poetic Play (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Welcome to Day 2! In today’s class, we focused on rhyme and inventive language. Students learned key terms of the day, including: alliteration, rhyme, end rhyme, slant rhyme, rhyme scheme, metaphor, similie, and imagery. Students spent the morning with a brief communal writing activity, titled, “Exquisite Corpse.” This is a traditional poetry game where each...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Chemical Spill, Mr. Knorr (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 17, 2018—Hello Parents! I’m happy to report that your budding environmental scientists have been doing an amazing job in the classroom and outside! They have been picking up high school level chemistry and have a firm grip on the structure of atoms, elements, ions, chemicals, and environmental systems. I am VERY impressed by their deep understanding...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 2 – Chemical Spill, Miss Raff (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 17, 2018—News broke this morning that there has been some suspicious activity near the study site. There had been complaints about suspicious vehicles, chemical smells, and funny tasting water. Your scientists decided to investigate the situation. After we reviewed all the information, we used the scientific method. Your students asked questions and developed hypotheses to try...