SAVY Category
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 5 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 21, 2019—What an absolutely tremendous week! Your students have walked through some pretty challenging material this week, addressing broad concepts like change- understanding it’s everywhere, it’s either natural or man-made, it’s related to time, and is either random or predictable… AND they know what those words mean, as well! This week, we also tackled problems like...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 5 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 21, 2019—Animal Adaptations Blog. Friday, June 21 One of the highlights from our last day with each other was to listen to our peers describe how they solved a problem that would help an animal survive due to a missing or injured body part, using both the scientific process and engineering design. Each student chose an...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Stories and the Structure of the Universe (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 20, 2019—First thing this morning, we returned to Ray Bradbury’s suspenseful science fiction story “A Sound of Thunder,” to quickly recap the most important events in the story and consider the concepts Bradbury was engaging. Students were particularly fascinated by the idea of a chain reaction or “butterfly effect” that Bradbury incorporated. We discussed the ways...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Psychology in Action (Rising 5th/6th)
Jun. 20, 2019—Hello parents, Today was one of our favorites! Our researchers were on the move with hardly any time to breathe, but it was full of excitement and anticipation. We hit the ground running and began practicing our data collection procedures for our classexperiments;both of which were based off of actual studies being conducted by Ms....
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Programming and Robotics (Ashley G.) (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 20, 2019—No, tomorrow can’t be our last day! I am pretty sure we could keep going for another week. The students are so eager to try new ideas and take on new challenges. During the morning, the students worked on programming their EV3 to follow a line using a color sensor and then added the Touch...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Programming and Robotics (Lauren W.) (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 20, 2019—What a day of programming! We have filled our brains with new vocabulary this week and it is imperative to use it while we code, so we started the day with a vocabulary review game. Then, we continued reading The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown to inspire futuristic thinking for the rest of the...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Ecological Expedition (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 20, 2019—Today was definitely one of our most fun and memorable days as professionals from the Nashville Zoo joined us! We had the privilege of listening to a trainer, veterinarian, and an educator talk about the clouded leopard exhibit and breeding program. Several of our students said they were even interested in working for the zoo...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Culinary Chemistry (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 20, 2019—Coming soon!
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 20, 2019—WOW! What. A. Day! We started our day talking about words like precipitation, percolation, evaporation, and condensation in a process the students now know as The Water Cycle. Did you know there is NO NEW WATER? The water we use is cleaned and reused! We have talked about that a couple of times this week, too and...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 4 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 20, 2019—Animal Adaptations Blog. Thursday, June 20th Reading Ivan the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla, was a great way for us to review our debatable question from the end of the day yesterday: Should people be allowed to remove wild animals from their natural habitat? We had a chance to share more extended thoughts and opinions,...