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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 3- Neuroscience Navigators, Conrad/Nguyen (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 19, 2017—On the third day of Neuroscience Navigators, we moved away from the big picture of the brain into its minute details – that is, neurons (or brain cells). We had previously learned about gray and white matter – but how are they structured? We took several different approaches today to “dissect” the cellular structure of...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 3- Neuroscience Navigators, Wilkey (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 19, 2017—On the third day of Neuroscience Navigators, we moved away from the big picture of the brain into its minute details – that is, neurons (or brain cells). We had previously learned about gray and white matter – but how are they structured? We took several different approaches today to “dissect” the cellular structure of...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 3- The Math in Music (Rising 1st)
Jul. 19, 2017—Our third day was very busy! We spent the morning reviewing key concepts that we have learned throughout the week. The class practiced performing, identifying, and creating rhythmic patterns, as well as calculating the number of sounds in different patterns. Our curiosity about rhythm notes led us to discover a NEW note – the triplet!...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 3- What’s the Matter (Rising 1st)
Jul. 19, 2017—Dear parents: Today was a wonderful third day in our What’s the Matter course! We were very busy again today with lots of hands-on investigations. We began our day reading from, 14 Experiments That Failed. We then did a brainstorming activity to get our brains ready! Students had to think of at least 10 things they could...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 2- Computational Astrophysics (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 18, 2017—On day 2 of Computational Astrophysics, the students worked on a lot of pieces of code! We made several steps in understanding how objects move through space. We tied together the concepts of position, velocity, and acceleration in order to describe how an object moves. We then discussed the concepts of forces in order to...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 2- Commodore Investment Fund (Rising 6th/7th)
Jul. 18, 2017—Simulation time! Today we tested our skill at picking out investments which were perfectly modeled by a single die. This helped us learn about the trade off between risk and return. Students came up with the idea that being riskier in the early rounds of the simulation was better than taking risks later…they could already...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 2- Poetry in Practice (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 18, 2017—The poet Rainer Maria Rilke was a proponent for mining one’s life experiences for poetic subject material. That’s what we’re trying to do this week. We continued revising yesterday’s poems by taking out the key emotionally resonant lines and adding them to a new poem with syllabic structure. We also used an anaphora exercise inspired...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 2- Programming and Robotics (Rising 4th/5th)
Jul. 18, 2017—Today, we started off by reviewing our two ideas from yesterday: Loops make our programs more efficient for repeated tasks Computers need explicit and detailed instructions Then, we learned the word “algorithm” to describe these types of detailed instructions. We practiced created algorithms for tanagram patterns. After reviewing the ideas from yesterday, we learned a...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 2- Archaeological Adventures (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 18, 2017—Our budding archaeologists had another great morning! Today, we covered two important lessons: dating in archaeology and preservation. First, we discussed the different methods archaeologists use to identify how old artifacts are. Students put this knowledge to practice by first lining themselves up by order of their ages. This involved cooperation from every member of...
Summer SAVY 2017, Session 5/Day 2- Neuroscience Navigators, Conrad/Nguyen (Rising 2nd/3rd)
Jul. 18, 2017—On the second day of Neuroscience Navigators, we built on our knowledge of neuroanatomy by watching Mr. Ben and Mr. Tin each dissect a sheep brain and talk through all of the parts. They made a sagittal cut and we saw the Corpus Callosum, which is the structure that connects the left and right hemisphere....