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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 1- Programming and Robotics (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 17, 2017—We had an exciting first day in programming and robotics! In the morning, students discussed the knowledge you need to start programming (reading, writing, and basic math), the qualities of a good programmer (discipline, determination, creativity, and resolve), and why they wanted to learn more about programming (to make the world a better place and...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 1- Archaeological Adventures (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 17, 2017—Today was an awesome first day of class! I was really impressed by the insightful questions asked by all the students. Our main topics of focus today were human adaptation and the importance of archaeological context in understanding those adaptations. We started out by creating a short concept map to highlight what the students already...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 1- Neuroscience Navigators, Conrad/Nguyen (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 17, 2017—We had a wonderful first day in Neuroscience Navigators! We started the day getting to know each other and how much we all knew about neuroscience. We are also learning pretty quickly that there are a lot of new words that are used in Neuroscience. For example, the word neuroscience is a combination of neuro-...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 1- Neuroscience Navigators, Wilkey (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 17, 2017—We had a wonderful first day in Neuroscience Navigators! We started the day getting to know each other and how much we all knew about neuroscience. We are also learning pretty quickly that there are a lot of new words that are used in Neuroscience. For example, the word neuroscience is a combination of neuro-...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 1- The Math in Music (Rising 1st)
Jul. 17, 2017—We had a great first day in the Math in Music! We started the day by moving and grooving to MC Hammer and learning about some new instruments that we will play throughout the week. After introductions, we started to learn about different ways we can experience patterns. The students played a fun rhythm game...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 1- What’s the Matter? (Rising 1st)
Jul. 17, 2017—Dear parents: Today was a wonderful first day in our What’s the Matter course! I was pleasantly surprised to welcome back three previous students to this session. We began our morning with a concept map to show what students knew about matter. This concept map helps guide our instruction and differentiation in this course study...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 4- Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 13, 2017—I can’t believe tomorrow will be our last day together, my friends. This week has flown by! I’m excited for our final class, when we’ll unpack our last lenses of analysis and tackle our trickiest content. Today we added Historicism to our collection of tools. You understand that meaning can be ascribed by the time...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 4- Intro to Programming (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 13, 2017—Today students learned about functions as a way to make their code more abstract and modular. We practiced using functions by writing functions to identify the divisors of a number, determine whether a number is prime, and determine the intersection of two lists. In the afternoon, students planned and began writing code for their hangman...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 4- Business Basics (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 13, 2017—Students learned today about how supply and demand affect the stock market. We thought about how to approach selecting a stock and then considered whether or not it is even possible to consistently select above average stocks. The students then heard about the efficient markets hypothesis and developed reasons for and against the hypothesis. Hard...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 4/Day 4- Looking into Language (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 13, 2017—What power do words have? What’s in a name? Today our linguists debated the strength of language against physical force. We analyzed the quotes “ticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” and “the pen is mightier than the sword” in order to explore the ways language influences the world...