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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Secrets of the Moli Stone (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 26, 2017—Dear Families, Wow! We are quickly coming to the latter half of the week already, but our mathematician brains have been working hard! Today we investigated the number systems of different imaginary lands, where instead of using a base 10 system, they used base 3, base 4, and even base 7! Students quickly started to...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Environmental Hydrology (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 26, 2017—How is water polluted? Who dirtied the Cumberland River? How do different land uses impact our watershed? Well, today we learned that due to non-point source pollution, the answer may be more complicated than we initially thought! Taking on roles of various community members, the students explored the history of the Cumberland River and how...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Beyond the Pyramids (Rising 1st)
Jul. 26, 2017—Dear SAVY Parents, Another fantastic day in ancient Egypt with your child and their friends! Today we read the story, Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt. We learned many things about their economic bartering system, as well as their unique number system. We took some time to practice our Egyptian mathematics in case we...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 3- Survive and Thrive (Rising 1st)
Jul. 26, 2017—Happy Third Day! Today the students spent the majority of their day designing and creating the habitats for their mealworms. It was awesome to see them using the Engineering Design Process (Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve) to bring their ideas to creation. The students were encouraged to share their ideas so their classmates could...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 2- Wildlife Ecology (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 25, 2017—Things are bubbling right along in Wildlife Ecology! This morning we researched some methods for repelling deer from gardens and cropland and designed experiments to do so. Each group identified independent and dependent variables as well as controlling conditions. We also discussed the life cycle of deer ticks ( Ixodes scapularis) and different survival strategies...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 2- Planetary Astronomy (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 25, 2017—Day 2 Orbits, Gravity, and Math – oh my! While we started the day with reviewing planetary formation, we worked on orbits and math, then worked with a computer simulations of areas of our Solar System! For planetary formation, I wanted to be sure students saw some of the evidence astronomers have for different pieces...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 2- Industrial Microbiology (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 25, 2017—Hello again parents and students, Day two has come and gone! Our time is flying by so fast! We started off the day by recapping what we had learned from yesterday. Each student got to stand up with their group and present. I was very impressed by how much everyone remembered as well as the...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 2- Mystery and History (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 25, 2017—Today the adventures have continued! The mystery that we focused on today was the Lost Colony of Roanoke. We began class by brainstorming with the knowledge that many students already had and were willing to share, but we made a rule that we couldn’t talk about theories yet. For the rest of the morning, we...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 2- Secrets of the Moli Stone (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 25, 2017—We started today by picking up from our first mathematical investigation from yesterday. Students searched for all the possible combinations of pennies and dimes that add to the same sum for a range of different amounts. After exhaustively searching for combinations and discussing ways to organize our data to make patterns more visible, students noticed...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 6/Day 2- Environmental Hydrology (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 25, 2017—Hydrology Day 2 was all about geomorphology! After refining our vocabulary on topographic and geomorphologic processes, we headed over to the Vanderbilt Earth and Environmental laboratory to build a stream. Students had the opportunity to work with a geomorphologist to observe all the processes (e.g. meandering, erosion, deposition, channelization) that make up river networks! Check...