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Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 25, 2018—We had another fun-filled day in Neuroscience Navigators, and now are over half way through our journey! We again started with a concept map and it was great to see everyone contribute what they knew. Our “web” of concepts around neuroscience is becoming more and more complex! We then talked about the fact that neuroscience...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 25, 2018—We had such great fun with the next Antics words! Some students actually came in with some predictions of what some of the next words might be! Who would have thought that we could learn so many words from ants! Our next set of words were: immigrants, jubilant, Kant, lantern (from a student), lieutenant, and...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Today in class, we continued our work on pulley systems. Our next concern was calculating the relative velocities of objects in the system. For example, how does object A appear to be moving to an observer sitting on object B? We came up with a vector equation for objects moving up and down, and then...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Hello SAVY Parents, Students kicked off the second day of “Science of Emotion” by learning about the role of the human brain, and the emotions that the brain produces to help humans survive. After practicing how to identify independent, dependent, and confounding variables, and after reviewing the steps of the scientific method, students learned about...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Field Ecology (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Dear Parents, Everyday this week is covering a different range of biological diversity! Today your children learned about the bugs and birds in the world around us. Both insects and birds play huge roles in ecology. Your children read scientific literature and became scientific advisors for a leading mosquito control company. They learned about the...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force (Rising 5th/6th)
Jul. 24, 2018—We began with a quick review of some major concepts: criticism, formalism, and structuralism. In order to recognize some distinctions between formalism and structuralism, we turned to Plato and his Forms. We used the metaphor of a cookie with M&M’s scattered throughout: some M&M’s are on the top, some in the middle, and some are...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Archaeology and Ancient Culture (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Our archaeologists had a very challenging day today! First, we reviewed everything we learned yesterday about the kind of work that archaeologists do and how social systems work. After reviewing the concept of systems and spending a little more time discussing Maya social systems, we moved on to economic systems. Understanding and conceptualizing economic systems...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Programming and Robotics (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Dear Parents, We had an busy and productive Tuesday! The students were excited to be back in the classroom after getting to explore programming and Sphero robots yesterday afternoon. To prepare for our afternoon of programming the robots, we reviewed concepts that we learned yesterday in class, including algorithms, debugging, loops and conditions. To make...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Neuroscience Navigators (Rising 2nd)
Jul. 24, 2018—In our second day at Neuroscience Navigators we really put our new knowledge into action! To start, we reviewed some material from the previous day. We built an impressive concept map as a class of all the new words we’ve been learning, and importantly, how they connect conceptually. Next, we got back to our build-a-brain...
Summer SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Playing With Words (Rising 1st)
Jul. 24, 2018—How many words can you make with ant in them? How about 26? We began reading a book called Antics, and as you can guess, each word with ant in it had an illustration featuring an ant or a group of ants. First I asked students if they could think of any new words to...