Grade 5 Category
Fall SAVY 2016 (Day 1) – Pathogens and Protectors: The Science of the Immune System
Sep. 26, 2016—This week, we kicked off our investigation of immunology! Our first brainstorming session on tools of problem solving revealed that this class already has a firm grasp of the scientific method, which we will employ extensively. However, they are less familiar with the design method, a similar process, but used by engineers to come up...
Fall SAVY 2016 (Day 1) – Creative Writing: (Re)Imagining the Monstrous
Sep. 26, 2016—We had an exciting first day of “Creative Writing: (Re)Imagining the Monstrous,” a course designed to improve both reading and writing skills by more closely examining the antagonists and villains that populate the stories and poems we love! We began our journey into the world of creative writing by drawing “concept maps,” an activity designed...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 4) – A Walk Under the Stars: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jul. 28, 2016—On our second to last day of Astrophysics, we explored the ways in which astronomers use star light to discover some really interesting things about distant objects! First we took a look at two ways astronomers use a distant star’s light to determine that a planet is orbiting around it. Because we can’t see planets...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 4) – More Data, More Problems: Tackling Genetic Epidemiology
Jul. 28, 2016—Hello Students and Parents! It’s hard to believe that today was day 4 and we only have one more day of Genetic Epidemiology! Today we focused on learning about regression analyses and how to conduct these in R. We analyzed a sample dataset in order to determine if the waiting time between eruptions and the...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 3) – More Data, More Problems: Tackling Genetic Epidemiology
Jul. 27, 2016—Good Evening Students and Parents, I hope everyone had as much fun today in Tackling Genetic Epidemiology as I did! We began the day with a quick review of what we learned yesterday. We then finished our Sanger sequencing activity and learned how to identify and classify mutations based on DNA sequence data. We then...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 3) – A Walk Under the Stars: Astronomy and Asyrophysics
Jul. 27, 2016—During day 3 of Astrophysics, we dove really deep into an exploration of how astronomers use light to learn about objects very far from us. We discussed how the atomic structures of different elements are related to the light these elements either absorb or emit. The result of these different structures is that each element...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 2) – A Walk Under the Stars: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jul. 26, 2016—Day 2 of Astrophysics was a really busy! We began by finishing up our discussion of Newton’s law of gravity and how it relates to planets and their orbits. I then gave each pair of students a piece of a “puzzle” involving how our solar system formed. Each group became experts in their topic and...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 2) – More Data, More Problems: Tackling Genetic Epidemiology
Jul. 26, 2016—Hello Students and Parents! Day 2 of Tackling Genetic Epidemiology really flew by! Our morning began with a game in which students recalled both names of class members and key terms from DAY 1 during morning review (alleles, phenotype, DNA, PMI). After our review game and discussion of how the concepts we are learning about...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 1) – A Walk Under the Stars: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jul. 25, 2016—Overall the first day of Astrophysics was really exciting! We began by talking about the size and scale of the Universe. We wrote down our “cosmic address”, starting with Earth and ending with the possibility of a multiverse! We compressed the history of our Universe into a single calendar year, finding the “dates” of such...
Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 5, Day 1) – More Data, More Problems: Tackling Genetic Epidemiology
Jul. 25, 2016—Hello Students and Parents! We had a busy day in Tackling Genetic Epidemiology today. During the morning, we did a few introductions and learned a little about our fellow geneticists in training. We also did a review of a few genetics terms that we are going to be using this week. The students did...