SAVY Category
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Ecological Expedition (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 17, 2019—What an amazing first day! Mr. Harel and I were so impressed with the critical thinking, creativity, and enthusiasm from our students. We began our ecological expedition of becoming ecologists through learning about the concept of interactions! Students explored Vanderbilt’s campus and identified interactions between living and nonliving things. After categorizing our interactions, we developed...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Culinary Chemistry (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 17, 2019—What a great time getting to know everyone in Culinary Chemistry today! We started with a little introductory getting-to-know you, and started diving into what it takes to be a good scientist: 1) Be respectful 2) Always try your hardest 3) Safety is our priority! Then, we started learning about how we can classify our...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Environmental Explorations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 17, 2019—Greetings from Environmental Explorations class, here at SAVY! Today has been exciting, as we have started talking about what scientists do. I am so impressed with how much these young scientists already know! We started a “Words We Know” chart, that will live in our classroom this week. Just today, we added the words wafting, (prefix) pre-,...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 2, Day 1 – Animal Adaptations (Rising 1st/2nd)
Jun. 17, 2019—This has been a roaring great first day! It’s always fun to have an ice breaker that involves guessing what animal is on your visor. Questions and answers were flying all around until each of us guessed our mystery animal using scientific questioning. Then it was time for us to observe and hypothesize like a...
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 5 – Archaeology 101 (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 14, 2019—Today was our final day of class for Anthropology 101! We started off the morning with a trip to computer lab where students had the opportunity to pair up and research about various archaeological sites around the world. They researched information about their site’s political system, economic system, and cultural traits. After we finished, students...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Tremendous Transformations in Writing (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 14, 2019—What a week we have had! With an eye toward publishing our own work, we started the day by examining children’s books and noting their important parts: cover, preview, title page, copyright page, dedication, illustrations, text, and an About the Author section. We then gathered materials for our own book creation and got to work...
Summer SAVY 2019: Session 1, Day 5 – Chemical Spill (Rising 3rd/4th)
Jun. 14, 2019—Hello Parents! We had a great last day together discussing the value of the environment and ecological services. We also completed our final concept maps filled with all of information that we covered this week from atoms to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. As you probably already know, we also spent some time making and...