Grade 5 Category
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Puzzles and Problem Solving (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 14, 2019—On our final day in Puzzles and Problem Solving, we looked at a couple of gold coin problems where students had a certain number of weighings on a balance scale to try to determine which coins were fake. Students quickly solved the nine-coin problem and set to work on the five-coin version. You would think...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Nuclear Science and Energy (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 14, 2019—Coming soon!
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 14, 2019—Coming soon!
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Puzzles and Problem Solving (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 13, 2019—I was so pleased with the students’ work on the Pirate Problem this morning! This is a problem that my (much!) older students often struggle with, and this class just tackled the issues head on and found a solution, even as they hit a stumbling block right before the finish line. It was amazing to...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Nuclear Science and Energy (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 13, 2019—Today we opened class with a quick review game. One student would share a vital piece of information about nuclear energy learned during the class. Then, the student would tag two more students. Those two students would state their facts (no repeats allowed!), and each would tag two more people, and so on from there. ...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 4 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 13, 2019—Rising moons, Padawans! Can you believe that tomorrow will be our final session of Theory, Criticism, and The Force? We’re about to Break Into 3, headed for the Ending and Return, ready to create Synthesis. Those are a bunch of heady terms, I know, so here’s a more personable response to the approaching close of...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 3 – Puzzles and Problem Solving (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 12, 2019—Most of the morning in Puzzles and Problem Solving was spent converting our classroom into an airplane…or at least a room with 7 seats and boarding passes. Consider the following scenario: The first person to board a fully-booked flight drops his or her boarding pass and doesn’t bother to pick it up. The person doesn’t...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 3 – Nuclear Science and Energy (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 12, 2019—So many surprises! After a warm-up and review of ALL the science we’ve learned the last few days, we have a chance to learn about nuclear power plants! Our visitor, a civil engineer who works with nuclear power plants came by to share her work with us. We compared the risks, hazards, and perceptions of...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 3 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 12, 2019—Students of Theory, Criticism, and The Force: “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” Master Yoda could have been speaking about you. He’d be impressed with the amount of content you assimilated during our session. Parents, if you’re reading this, brace yourselves: Your children absorbed a Holocron’s worth of information today! We began, as...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 2 – Puzzles and Problem Solving (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 11, 2019—We began class today by delving deeper into the problems studied yesterday. Each day will begin with two questions designed to have the students apply the knowledge learned in the previous day to a new scenario. Today’s questions dealt with the 21-card game and ZipZap, and both questions led to interesting discussions about factors, multiples,...