Grade 1 Category
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 5 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 21, 2019—Animal Adaptations Blog. Friday, June 21 One of the highlights from our last day with each other was to listen to our peers describe how they solved a problem that would help an animal survive due to a missing or injured body part, using both the scientific process and engineering design. Each student chose an...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 20, 2019—WOW! What. A. Day! We started our day talking about words like precipitation, percolation, evaporation, and condensation in a process the students now know as The Water Cycle. Did you know there is NO NEW WATER? The water we use is cleaned and reused! We have talked about that a couple of times this week, too and...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 20, 2019—Animal Adaptations Blog. Thursday, June 20th Reading Ivan the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla, was a great way for us to review our debatable question from the end of the day yesterday: Should people be allowed to remove wild animals from their natural habitat? We had a chance to share more extended thoughts and opinions,...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 3 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 19, 2019—Greetings from Day 3 of Environmental Explorations, here at SAVY! We talked at length today about natural and man-made materials, as well as what happens with renewable and non-renewable resources, as they are used. We used beans to represent how materials are used, especially as populations grow. Did you know that Davidson county generates over...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 3 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 19, 2019—Presenting our Habitat partner assignments that we finished yesterday to the class this morning was so informative and full of critical thinking! Partners shared why each specific habitat was important to the animals that naturally live there, and how they depend on everything in the habitat to meet survival needs. Then, when we shared events...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 2 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 18, 2019—Day 2 Greetings from Environmental Explorations class, here at SAVY! Today has been VERY exciting and VERY busy. We started the day by having Dr Chris Aiken, who studies viruses, talk to us about things he does as a scientist. He talked about how scientists ask questions, learn from their senses, observe and notice details,...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 2 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 18, 2019—We are really getting good at identifying adaptations that specific animals have and how those adaptions help the animal survive and thrive in their natural habitat. Our conversations now; however, are turning a bit more thought worthy as we are thinking of the implications of animals losing their habitat space, being relocated to different habitats...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 17, 2019—Greetings from Environmental Explorations class, here at SAVY! Today has been exciting, as we have started talking about what scientists do. I am so impressed with how much these young scientists already know! We started a “Words We Know” chart, that will live in our classroom this week. Just today, we added the words wafting, (prefix) pre-,...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 17, 2019—This has been a roaring great first day! It’s always fun to have an ice breaker that involves guessing what animal is on your visor. Questions and answers were flying all around until each of us guessed our mystery animal using scientific questioning. Then it was time for us to observe and hypothesize like a...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Forensic Science (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 14, 2019—Dear Parents: Our case took a very surprising turn this morning! Before stepping foot into our own crime scene, we brainstormed advice in how to solve a crime, for a woman who baked homemade chocolate cookies, left them on the warming tray, and came back to find six cookies missing. She said she has three...