Grade 3 Category
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Ecological Expedition (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 17, 2019—What an amazing first day! Mr. Harel and I were so impressed with the critical thinking, creativity, and enthusiasm from our students. We began our ecological expedition of becoming ecologists through learning about the concept of interactions! Students explored Vanderbilt’s campus and identified interactions between living and nonliving things. After categorizing our interactions, we developed...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Culinary Chemistry (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 17, 2019—What a great time getting to know everyone in Culinary Chemistry today! We started with a little introductory getting-to-know you, and started diving into what it takes to be a good scientist: 1) Be respectful 2) Always try your hardest 3) Safety is our priority! Then, we started learning about how we can classify our...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Archaeology 101 (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 14, 2019—Today was our final day of class for Anthropology 101! We started off the morning with a trip to computer lab where students had the opportunity to pair up and research about various archaeological sites around the world. They researched information about their site’s political system, economic system, and cultural traits. After we finished, students...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Tremendous Transformations in Writing (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 14, 2019—What a week we have had! With an eye toward publishing our own work, we started the day by examining children’s books and noting their important parts: cover, preview, title page, copyright page, dedication, illustrations, text, and an About the Author section. We then gathered materials for our own book creation and got to work...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Chemical Spill (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 14, 2019—Hello Parents! We had a great last day together discussing the value of the environment and ecological services. We also completed our final concept maps filled with all of information that we covered this week from atoms to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. As you probably already know, we also spent some time making and...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Archaeology 101 (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 13, 2019—Today was a busy day for Anthropology 101! We began the morning with a quick recap of what we learned in the bone lab yesterday. Again, I was impressed with how much they remember and understand! We wrapped up our lab portion of the class by refitting the broken pottery they uncovered in their survey...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Tremendous Transformations in Writing (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 13, 2019—Wow!! Today was surely our best day yet! Knowing today was our big day for serious revision, we started the day by thinking about what we had each accomplished with our stories so far and what we hoped to achieve. Each student set a personal writing goal, and we basically wrote ALL morning long, with...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Chemical Spill (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 13, 2019—Hello Parents! Today was quite an eventful day. In the morning lab session we continued monitoring the health of our flowering plants that we had watered with an acidic and basic solutions the day before. Preliminary results show that plants receiving higher concentrations of acid are less healthy than the plants that received a more...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 3 – Archaeology 101 (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 12, 2019—This morning in Archaeology 101, students taught each other key archaeological concepts such as “stratigraphy” and “relative and absolute dating”. I’m so impressed with how much they have learned! Following our big excavation yesterday afternoon, students gathered in their groups to process the artifacts that they uncovered. Building on their knowledge of relative dating, students...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 3 – Tremendous Transformations in Writing (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 12, 2019—We started the day with another writing experiment, which students definitely enjoyed. They got to know their character a little better by putting them into a new setting and seeing how they react. The students were able to understand their character better by discovering strengths or weaknesses that were brought out by the change of...