SAVY Category
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, The Power of Persuasion (7th-8th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Hello, all you persuasive people! Wow, wow, wow – we definitely have some innovative and savvy (pun intended) industry leaders within this class! Today, we learned about leveraging persuasive skills and tactics in selling, marketing, and advertising. Specifically, we focused on ways that we can pitch and advocate for ourselves from small things like convincing...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Invasive Species (7th-8th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Dear family and future invasive species experts, Another information-packed day! We first introduced ourselves to new classmates, increasing our networking skills with people of similar interests. Today we focused on honing our awareness of the nature of native, non-native, and invasive species, along with an introduction to different nutrient cycles. We ventured out into...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Exploring the Human Mind: Intro to Psychological Research (7th-8th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Dear Exploring the Human Mind parents, Today, we began with some fun icebreakers outside to get the group warmed up. Then we jumped into learning more about how to design an experiment, including how to tell the difference between correlation and cause and effect, as well as between reliability and validity. Your students were...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Wildlife Ecology (5th -6th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Day 2 of Wildlife Ecology started with a 4-corners getting-to-know-you activity. We reviewed the classroom expectations and asked for someone to summarize what we learned yesterday. To see if we remembered some of yesterday’s material, they took a “pop” quiz, just 5 questions multiple choice. We then completed the reasoning wheel activity which led to...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Intro to Neurobiology (5th -6th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Dear SAVY Families, We had another great day with our brilliant students! We began the day by spending a good amount of time reviewing what we learned yesterday, including the insights that learning is not a zero-sum game, and we each have our own time zone, functions of the nervous system, neuron structure, and...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Transformations in Writing (3rd -4th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Greetings! Our authors were so hard at work today! We focused yesterday on what makes a good story, and today, students were able to bring in or share titles of their favorite stories and show what they liked about them. This was a great way to get our creative juices flowing! We then...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Programming and Robotics (3rd -4th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Today, we reviewed and discussed new teamwork strategies to help us with our group work. We explored ways to organize and delegate work, what to do if a team member isn’t doing their job, and how to get others to engage in tasks. We also talked about when to ask for help from an adult....
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Chemical Spill (Pilote) (3rd -4th)
Jul. 16, 2024—Hello SAVY Families, The students in Chemical Spill were so excited to make observations on their experiment today to see if there were any changes to the materials that were found at the site. More information was found at the scene. A smudged invoice! Of course, some information was illegible, but they put their...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Chemical Spill (Lowe) (3rd -4th)
Jul. 16, 2024—It was so fun to see our new friends this morning, and the students asked for more “Would You Rather” scenarios and a science joke as soon as they arrived! This morning, we looked at yesterday’s “A” & “B” experiments, noticed that there were some changes in the “A” (vinegar) jars, and recorded...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Engineering Design (Lewis) (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 16, 2024—Today in Engineering Design, we kept the learning moving! After a quick name game to get to know each other a little more, we jumped into understanding engineering. Students started by exploring connections between the story Javier Builds a Bridge and the Engineering Design Process. We found how Javier asked questions, imagined different ideas for...