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Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Archaeology and Ancient Culture (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 23, 2018—Dear SAVY parents, Our budding archaeologists had a wonderful first day in Mesoamerica! Students arrived ready to learn, and everyone showed their excitement right off the bat! We began this morning by playing People Bingo to get to know one another! Sort of like a scavenger hunt, students had a lot of fun asking each...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Programming and Robotics (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 23, 2018—The first day of our class had a great start. After getting to know each other, the students organized what they already knew about robots and programming by writing them down and connecting them on a paper in form of a concept map. Afterward, we talked about how a computer works and how computer programs...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2018—Our first day in Neuroscience Navigators was awesome! We started the day with an ice breaker to learn each other names and what we already knew about neuroscience. It turns out we knew a little bit, but not much, so we are super excited to learn a lot this week! We broke the word neuroscience...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 23, 2018—Climbing ladders can be a lot of fun, but climbing ladders with words is even better! We got to know each other well this morning by playing a word ladder. A word ladder is packed full of word play as we start with a word at the bottom of the ladder (ours was few), and...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 20, 2018—Our final day commenced with the presentation of several students’ practice persuasive speeches. Students adapted to constructive feedback and were able to speak to the whole class with confidence! During this session, we began our exploration of the fifth stage of Monroe’s motivated sequence, the Call to Action. Students incorporated calls to action and “I...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Marvelous Mechanisms (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 20, 2018—This was the last day of Marvelous Mechanisms! We moved from analyzing four bar mechanisms to designing them. We learned two position rocker synthesis and two position coupler synthesis. These are two techniques to take desired limit positions of one link in a four bar, and come up with the positions of the other three links....
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Stellar Astronomy (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 20, 2018—What a great final day! To start, we went to the computer lab to engage in some real science using the Zooniverse citizen science project aggregator. The project we looked at was the Milky Way Project where we were learning about stellar birthplaces and death-places. Students found bubbles, bow shocks, yellowballs, and more! This site is...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Poetic Play (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 20, 2018—Happy Friday, and a very happy, celebratory, and rejuvenating last day of Poetic Play to all! I am, as ever, grateful to all the students this week for creating such a wonderful class community of respect, awe, and courage in themselves as rising writers, and in the world around them! Thank you, thank you. A...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Chemical Spill, Mr. Knorr (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 20, 2018—Hello Parents! It was so nice to finally meet you all this afternoon at open house! We had an eventful Friday discussing a few jobs in science in more depth. We learned what volcanologists, zoologists, geographers, and paleontologists do! We also watched a cute video of a baby panda bear harassing his zoologist keeper J...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – Chemical Spill, Miss Raff (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 20, 2018—Thank you for coming to our open house! We really enjoyed showing you everything we learned this week. We hope you had fun seeing all the connections your scientist made between chemistry and the environment. Your students are incredibly bright. It was a joy to have them in class! Miss Jessica and Miss Emily ...