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Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 5 – Dabbling with DNA, Miss P (Rising 3rd and 4th)
Jun. 15, 2018—Hello young scientists (and parents!) Today was our final day at Dabbling with DNA. We were immunologists today, with a little bit of medical training! We discussed the components of blood and how to determine someone’s blood type. Can your young scientist remember the definitions for antigen and antibody? Do they remember how they interact?...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 5 – Dabbling with DNA, Dr. O (Rising 3rd and 4th)
Jun. 15, 2018—Good afternoon parents and students, We started off the morning by playing crazy traits, where students build unique wooden bugs based on their genotype. Random catastrophes would occur and we got to see which bug would survive extinction! We also finished our GMO virtual biolab and our characteristics graphs. Everyone should have them now, and...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 5 – Electrifying Engineering (Rising 2nd)
Jun. 15, 2018—What a great finale to our last day of Electrifying Engineering! Our engineering skills were put to the test to finish our toys. Your students may have a few things they may want to change, but in general we had some great looking prototypes. It has been a pleasure working with your students and to...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 5 – Secrets of the Moli Stone (Rising 2nd)
Jun. 15, 2018—Happy Fifth Day! The students had a great day showcasing their new knowledge about place value, regrouping, renaming, and number systems during Open House. They were able to demonstrate their understanding by taking on the role of instructors. After Open House, the students delved into the adventure of finding the three Moli Stones that were...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 5 – Dive into Design (Rising 1st)
Jun. 15, 2018—Hello Parents. It is hard to believe that this was our last day of Dive into Design. It has been a fast paced week of real life problem solving, with measurement. Today, students stepped back and reflected on their accomplishments this week, and they were very proud of themselves, as Miss Ashanti and I were...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 4 – Biology and the Body (Rising 5th and 6th)
Jun. 14, 2018—In today’s class Biology and the body we reviewed the disease tuberculosis, its symptoms and how it is treated or how we can prevent it using the vaccine BCG. We then learned the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic outbreak. This was followed by a class discussion on the role of government and health....
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 4 – Bioarchaeology (Rising 5th and 6th)
Jun. 14, 2018—This morning, we took a field trip! The students were able to train like real bioarchaeologists in the Vanderbilt Osteology Lab on main campus. They were able to see some real skeletons, including some pretty cool animals! Our discussion started by explore how “you are what you eat” with dietary isotopes. We learned how to...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 4 – Mighty Metamorphosis (Rising 3rd and 4th)
Jun. 14, 2018—Since we explored adding art to spaces to transform them yesterday, we picked up on that idea and ran it in a slightly different direction today by considering graffiti. Is it art? Is it ever okay? To start the debate we compared some of the work of Tom Bob (see link below) to a more...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 4 – Dabbling with DNA, Miss P (Rising 3rd and 4th)
Jun. 14, 2018—Greetings from Dabbling with DNA! Today, we were molecular biologists. This is the area of biology that I study and do my research in, so I was very excited for today! After learning the Central Dogma of Biology, we took a field trip to the VANTAGE facility at Vanderbilt University. This facility sequences DNA and...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 1, Day 4 – Dabbling with DNA, Dr. O (Rising 3rd and 4th)
Jun. 14, 2018—Well parents and students, we are down to the last day! SAVY came and went so fast. We started off the morning by taking both dabbling with DNA sessions to the on-site sequencing lab here at Vanderbilt called VANTAGE. The students got to see all the high tech computers that actually read the DNA codes....