SAVY Category
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Engineering Design (Allison) (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 16, 2024—Tuesday was another fun-filled day of learning in class! Today’s read-aloud featured two books in the same series by Andrea Beaty: Rosie Revere, Engineer, and Iggy Peck, Architect. Yesterday, students had questions about the difference between civil engineers and architects. Using these books, we completed a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two careers. Our...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 2, Earth Science Rocks! (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 16, 2024—Today was another great day in Earth Science Rocks! We reviewed the generalizations of change we identified yesterday–change is everywhere; it relates to time; it can be natural or manmade, and it may be random or predictable. We then recalled the changes that occurred with the Wall Arch at Arches National Park and built a replica...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, The Power of Persuasion (7th-8th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Hello, all you persuasive people! Well, it was the first day of a course that is shaping up to be fast-paced, jam-packed with learning and activities, and very hands-on! Today we started with a discussion about the art of persuasion – where it might be utilized, what toolkits of tactics and strategies we can...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Invasive Species (7th-8th)
Jul. 15, 2024—What a great first day! We took time to introduce ourselves to our classmates to create a welcoming community. We will be doing a lot of group work, something that happens in careers in ecology and environmental biology! It makes it much easier to work together when we know things about each other. We went...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Exploring the Human Mind: Intro to Psychological Research (7th-8th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Dear Exploring the Human Mind parents, It is such an honor to be spending the week co-constructing knowledge with your fabulous students. We began the day with introductions, where I got a small peek into your students’ individual interests. We then engaged in some peer-to-peer class norm-building and interviews about previous psychology experiences, interests,...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Wildlife Ecology (5th-6th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Good evening! Today we were very busy, first getting to know each other with a form of Bingo, and then we went over classroom expectations in terms of behavior. We posted those expectations and referred to them when necessary. We started our lesson with them working in small groups to address a very important question,...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Intro to Neurobiology (5th-6th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Dear SAVY families, Greetings! This is Wen, instructor of Intro to Neurobiology for this week. It was very lovely meeting our students for the first time today. We had an official introduction in which we talked about where we are from, our hobbies, our past experience with neurobiology, and what our students hope to...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Tremendous Transformations in Writing (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Greetings! I hope that you have had a fabulous day! I know we have! We started by getting to know each other and doing some team building. We had fun learning about each other and getting to know more about each other. We then talked about developing characters, and they began to develop...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Programming and Robotics (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Welcome to Programming and Robotics! It was such a pleasure meeting our talented students; we have a wonderful week ahead of us. We established classroom rules as a community and explored decision-making strategies. Today we talked about evaluating decisions and learned to rank them (minor, moderate, and significant). As a class, we evaluated real-world scenarios/decisions, then talked...
Summer SAVY, Session 5 Day 1, Chemical Spill (Pilote) (3rd-4th)
Jul. 15, 2024—Today was a really great day at SAVY. We were ready to dive into what we like about science and so much buzz was in the room, it was so exciting! An ill-structured problem was presented today that had students really thinking about the consequences of an accidental chemical spill in Nashville. Students first gathered...