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SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Journey Through Time (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 12, 2019—We had a wonderful last day in Journey through Time! We started with a review of the Boston Massacre and then turned our attention to the Boston Tea Party. From there, we launched right in the Continental Congresses and the writing of the Declaration of Independence. We discussed what it said, what it did (and...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 12, 2019—Wow! What a great week! I will miss this group very much. It was a pleasure getting to work with such engaged students. To cap off the week, we continued working on some number and fraction puzzles. These puzzles required students to do math operations with fractions. It was so interesting to listen to the...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 5 – Circuitry, Systems, and Design (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 12, 2019—What an exciting and action-packed, final day of Session 3 SAVY! Right off the bat, students were given an example of how their understanding of electricity and circuitry is harnessed in our information and data age. How do you store or represent information using electricity? We shared only a part of this code.org video, but it...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Journey Through Time (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 11, 2019—We started Day Four in Journey through Time by returning to the Virginia colony with a focus on political freedom. We came up with a working definition of freedom and then tracked its presence, or lack thereof, in most of the world during the seventeenth century. We examined the claim, frequently made by the English...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 11, 2019—It’s hard to believe that the week is almost over! This morning we used our number skills to work on some fraction problems and number puzzles. We worked on puzzles that were similar to magic squares where numbers had to be placed in a grid with sides equal to the same sum. The students shared...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 4 – Circuitry, Systems, and Design (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 11, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, Is anyone wondering about the implications of a possible tropical storm coming to our area and how it might affect the local power grid? We did today! We are thankful for those that keep us powered up with great design planning and reliable responses to emergencies. In regard to being thankful –...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 3 – Journey Through Time (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2019—Day Three in Journey through Time started with a return to the English Channel and the fate of the Spanish Armada. We looked at two versions of Elizabeth I’s famous Tilbury Speech as she awaited the expected invasion of the Spanish. We considered two different videos, one featuring a performance of the actual speech and...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 3 – Fractions at Work (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2019—The week is flying by! We worked really hard adding fractions. Some students are comfortable with finding the least common denominator and converting fractions. On thing that I tried to do was push students to move beyond the formula for adding fractions and use reasoning skills. We looked at a group of fractions and thought...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 3 – Circuitry, Systems, and Design (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 10, 2019—Dear SAVY Parents, Today, we had issues (by design of the lessons I mean to say). We took on the complex problems and used models to reason and have discourse in order to reach goals and discover solutions. It was amazing to see these young men work together in such respectful and reflective ways. Most...
SAVY 2019: Session 4, Day 2 – Journey Through Time (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 9, 2019—Day Two in Journey through Time started with a return to ancient Cahokia and the decline of the mound building civilizations in North America. Students came up with various theories to explain this occurrence, with many focusing on the changed ecology of the “New” World after contact and the introduction of new species to the...