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Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “Hidden Chemistry: Everyday Chemical Reactions” (7th-8th)
Jul. 15, 2025—Dear SAVY Families, Today in Hidden Chemistry: Everyday Chemical Reactions, our classroom lit up as we explored the fascinating world of light and chemiluminescence! Students discovered that chemiluminescence is a unique type of light production where chemical reactions produce light without heat, unlike incandescence or fluorescence. They learned about the specific chemical reaction happening inside glow...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “The Origins of Math: Discovery or Invention?” (5th-6th)
Jul. 15, 2025—We started the day with a cognitive puzzles medley, giving students an opportunity to choose the order they solved the puzzles. To encourage collaboration, students were introduced to research on the study habits of university students taking advanced mathematics courses. Students who formed study groups spent less time completing their work and struggled less because...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “Programming and Robotics” (5th-6th)
Jul. 15, 2025—Today in Programming and Robotics, we had the goal of learning how robotics influences biology and healthcare. We started our day reviewing the rules and procedures of our classroom. We then explored the idea of Systems. We focused on the generalization of “systems have parts that work together to complete a task.” We generated as...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “From Myth to Modern Legend: Greek Mythology” (5th-6th)
Jul. 15, 2025—We had another great day in Greek Mythology: Myth to Modern Legend! This morning, we wrapped up our discussion of the Greek gods/goddesses and learned about some minor figures. We even had the opportunity to simulate our own Olympian council vote, and then we created our own new gods/goddesses! From there, we dove into the...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “Space Academy: Exploring the Work of Astronauts” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2025—We began our day with an incredible visit from Billy Teets, the director of the Dyer Observatory. Billy introduced us to the wonders of the sun and how astronomers use specialized telescopes to observe features like sunspots and prominences. Students had the rare opportunity to look through a solar telescope set up right on campus...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “The Making of America: Rebellion, Revolt, and Resolution” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2025—Hello, all! It’s been a wild ride from the Stamp Act to the Boston Tea Party to the First Continental Congress to the Declaration of Independence (and everything in between!). This is a content-heavy day. The rest of the week will be much more project-oriented. I’m 100% certain that their brains are full! In terms...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “Exploring Epidemiology One Microorganism at a Time” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2025—Dear parents, Your children continue to work well as a group, and have fun ideas, examples of illnesses, and fine questions. We started the day learning about different kinds of microscopes and examined 5 new slides, including pumpkin skin, rabbit spinal cord, and pine stem. We talked about ways to stay healthy. And the class...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “Water and Weather” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 15, 2025—Water, Wonder, and Scientific Discovery! Today was a big day of hands-on exploration in our Water and Weather course! Our young scientists suited up in lab coats and fully stepped into the role of real researchers! From the moment they put them on, the excitement was contagious, and the lab coats became a fun and powerful...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “Intro to Coding” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 15, 2025—Each day will have a theme, which will incorporate another academic discipline into the lessons. Yesterday, our interdisciplinary connection was geometry. Students wrote code to draw or outline shapes. Today’s connection is to biology and ecosystems. The coding objectives for today were to learn how to program lights and sounds. During our morning meeting, we...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, “Encounters with Measurement” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 15, 2025—Hello SAVY Families! We had another fantastic day at SAVY Summer 2025 Session Five: Encounters with Measurement. Once again, the SAVY Mathematicians outdid themselves in their work today, and I know that each of them walked away with a better understanding of mathematical concepts such as perimeter, area, and the distributive property of multiplication. ...