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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 4- Industrial Microbiology (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 27, 2017—Hello students and parents! Only one day left! Time flies! The kids have really impressed me today. We played a short review game about industrial microbiology and they aced it! They remembered everything we went over and were able to explain it better then most college students! You should be very proud of them. Today...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 4- Mystery and History (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 27, 2017—Our detective historians have had a full day’s work uncovering mysterious societies of the past! Today we journeyed into early North American Native American societies. We began by thinking about the different types of evidence societies leave behind. Then we used our handy list to help us think about the clues left behind by the...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 4- Secrets of the Moli Stone (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 27, 2017—Dear Families, Students have been working hard this week to decipher new number systems. We’ve discovered the role that bases play in different number systems, and that not all number systems are place-value systems like ours! All of our hard work payed off today because we finally were able to solve the mystery of the...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 4- Environmental Hydrology (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 27, 2017—Hydrology Day 4: How is water treated? After a brief introduction to drinking water treatment, the students had a chance to observe the flocculation process with Harpeth River water. Throughout class we could watch the water slowly become clearer and clearer as the alum clumped the particles together. We also explored the filtration process by...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 4- Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st)
Jul. 27, 2017—Hello SAVY Parents! I can’t believe tomorrow is our final day together in ancient Egypt. Just like any good trip, we don’t want to leave this destination, but we’re leaving plenty of learning undiscovered for other trips. Today we began with at text explaining how the pyramids were built including some of the engineering tools...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 4- Survive and Thrive (Rising 1st)
Jul. 27, 2017—Happy Fourth Day! Today the students continued to design and create the habitats for their mealworms. They observed their mealworms and documented any noticeable changes. They wrote short blogs and stories about their mealworms to be shared with you tomorrow. They learned that mealworms go through a complete body change (metamorphosis). I was proud to...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Wildlife Ecology (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 26, 2017—We excelled in several different ways in Wildlife Ecology today! This morning we discussed the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, works in an infected organism. We talked about how the spirochete moves through the circulatory system and how it evades the immune system by producing antigen proteins that “confuse” T-cells. We also discussed exponential growth...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Planetary Astronomy (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 26, 2017—Day 3 Today’s Planetary Astronomy topic was LIGHT! Light is pretty much the only information we get from the Universe so we have to understand how light and matter interact in order to understand the Universe and the objects within. We discussed the different kinds of light (the electromagnetic spectrum) and then started looking at...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Industrial Microbiology (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 26, 2017—We had bacterial filled Wednesday! And yes that is a good thing…. We started the day by playing our favorite game where the teachers have to guess something about each student. From there we spent the day discussing genetic manipulations, GMOs and how bacteria are isolated. We talked about pH scale, genetic engineering and how...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Mystery and History (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 26, 2017—Today our detectives have been very busy! They had numerous tasks at hand! We began this morning by presenting our theories about the fate of the Roanoke colonists and comparing our theories with those of experts. We found that we came up with some of the same theories as the experts but also that we...