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Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 2, Day 4) – It’s Elemental
Jun. 23, 2016—It’s Elemental was very exciting today. We started by reviewing the information we have learned so far. In the last few days we have focused on elements and elemental properties. Today we concentrated on how elements form bonds in molecules. We learnt the difference between ionic and covalent bonds. We used the trends observed in...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 2, Day 3) – Scripting Stories
Jun. 22, 2016—We started the day with some improvisation games. The students imagined they were magic rocks, and they transformed into items from a lion to a television to a fish with the wave of a wand! We then played a game called prop. The students found many creative ways to imagine a simple basket was something...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 2, Day 3) – It’s Elemental
Jun. 22, 2016—Today in It’s Elemental we focused on the periodic table and the elements. We started out by discussing how to read the boxes on a periodic table. For example if we look at the box for Germanium we can see that it has an atomic number of 32, indicating that an atom of Germanium has...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 2, Day 2) – Scripting Stories
Jun. 21, 2016—We had another great day in Scripting Stories! Today, students worked on their own script adaptations of their favorite stories. We talked about how in adapting a story from a book to a script, you have to identify what are the most important parts of the story and make sure that those get carried over...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 2, Day 2) – It’s Elemental
Jun. 21, 2016—What an exciting Day 2 in It’s Elemental. We started out by learning about the history behind the current structure of an atom, from ancient Greek’s belief that there were 4 different atoms (Earth, Air, Water, and Fire) to our current understanding of quantum orbitals developed by Erwin Schrodinger. We learnt about the properties of...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 2, Day 1) – Scripting Stories
Jun. 20, 2016—For the first day of class, we started by getting to know each other. We began with a name game in which students said their name, an activity that they enjoy doing that begins with the first letter of their name, and a gesture to represent their activity. We went in a circle and learned...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 2, Day 1) – It’s Elemental
Jun. 20, 2016—We had a great first day in It’s Elemental! We started out by learning about some inspirational scientist such as Marie Curie, Alexander Fleming, and Stephanie Kwolek. We identified characteristic that are needed for great scientist and we made an effort to display those characteristics today. We studied the steps of the scientific method. We...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 1, Day 4) – Ecological Explorers
Jun. 16, 2016—Today we began talking about the question: “How can change in one part of an ecosystem affect other parts of the ecosystem?” The first part of the day was spent setting up our aquatic ecosystems. Each student group added the substrate (sand, gravel, or potting soil), plants, and animals that they had budgeted for. We...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 1, Day 3) – The Power of Poetry
Jun. 15, 2016—English, like all languages, has a rhythm and emphases. Today we examined how the most common rhythm in English is an unstressed-stressed iambic pattern. We also talked about rhyme. Poets from Dr. Seuss to Alexander Pope use rhyme to tie their poetry together. We then wrote lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse) and pairs...