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Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 25, 2018—This morning, we practiced analyzing compound gear trains using the number of teeth to determine the overall gear ratio of the gear train. Then we produced a two-view drawing of some compound gears. Next we moved on to designing compound gears. That is, determining the numbers of teeth for the gears in each of two...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 25, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, This morning, students continued to craft their emotion research questions. As a class, students helped each other identify the independent and dependent variables of their classmates’ proposed research questions, determined different ways to measure the variables in their experiments, and came up with ways to increase the internal validities of their experiments....
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Field Ecology (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 25, 2018—Dear Parents, We were very excited today for Microbe Day! We taught the kids all about microbes in the world around us and how they fit into the larger ecosystem. They learned about microbial myths and facts, characteristics of microbes, and their applications. They also learned how to look at microbial plates under the microscope...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 25, 2018—What a day! We covered a significant amount of content during our session. Your students should have a wealth of ideas, concepts, and terminology to share around the dinner table this evening, as well as a number of different and unexpected critical responses to Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. We began our class...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Archaeology and Ancient Culture (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 25, 2018—I can’t believe we are over halfway through our week already! Today was a really fun day! We started by reviewing what we learned yesterday about Maya economic systems before we moved on to political systems. We also learned about some of the methods archaeologists use for dating artifacts and sites by practicing dating artifacts...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Programming and Robotics (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 25, 2018—Dear Parents, Happy Wednesday! The week is flying by and the students are having a blast. We can’t wait to show all the parents how hard we have been working on our robots and programs. We spent the morning reviewing vocabulary again, and we added a few new words including: define, program, sequencings, and condition....
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 25, 2018—We had another fun-filled day in Neuroscience Navigators, and now are over half way through our journey! We again started with a concept map and it was great to see everyone contribute what they knew. Our “web” of concepts around neuroscience is becoming more and more complex! We then talked about the fact that neuroscience...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 25, 2018—We had such great fun with the next Antics words! Some students actually came in with some predictions of what some of the next words might be! Who would have thought that we could learn so many words from ants! Our next set of words were: immigrants, jubilant, Kant, lantern (from a student), lieutenant, and...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Today in class, we continued our work on pulley systems. Our next concern was calculating the relative velocities of objects in the system. For example, how does object A appear to be moving to an observer sitting on object B? We came up with a vector equation for objects moving up and down, and then...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Hello SAVY Parents, Students kicked off the second day of “Science of Emotion” by learning about the role of the human brain, and the emotions that the brain produces to help humans survive. After practicing how to identify independent, dependent, and confounding variables, and after reviewing the steps of the scientific method, students learned about...