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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 3- Policies and Politics (Rising 6th/7th)

Jun. 21, 2017—Day 3 of Policies and Politics has been a whirlwind! We started off the day by returning to Nashville’s public transportation system. Today the students ran for mayor with the platform of either saying it should be self-sufficient (entirely supported by fees), should be completely free to riders (entirely supported by the general fund), or...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 3- Food Chemistry (Rising 4th/5th)

Jun. 21, 2017—We had the busiest day so far in Food Chemistry today! We started the day by analyzing the results from our lipid extraction experiments. We used ethanol to extract the lipids and let it evaporate overnight, leaving a greasy presence on our Petri dishes. Our hypothesis was correct and we extracted the most lipids from...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 3- Digging for the Past (Rising 4th/5th)

Jun. 21, 2017—How can it possibly be the end of Day 3 already? Today, our budding archaeologists were faced with several situations that real-life archaeologists deal with all the time. First, we completed a fun activity to review the scientific method by hypothesizing what mystery materials I had placed inside plastic eggs. Students had to use their...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 3- Data Discoverers (Rising 2nd/3rd)

Jun. 21, 2017—Today flew by as we analyzed the line plot created yesterday.  We looked at different ways to describe the average: median, mode, and mean.  We calculated the range of the data set and discovered that using a line plot can be an excellent tool for displaying frequency of data. We continued our exploration of line...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 3- Robotic Programming (Rising 2nd/3rd)

Jun. 21, 2017—Greetings! Today was great! We started with an engineering meeting and talked about what worked with our programming, and then what didn’t work. The kids shared strategies for things that they did when they hit a wall, and we talked about strategies to deal with frustration. I then shared with them some problems that professional...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 3- Survive and Thrive (Rising 1st)

Jun. 21, 2017—Happy Third Day! Today the students spent the majority of their day designing and creating the habitats for their mealworms. It was awesome to see them using the Engineering Design Process (Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve) to bring their ideas to creation. The students were encouraged to share their ideas so their classmates could...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 3- Playing with Words (Rising 1st)

Jun. 21, 2017—It is so delightful learning with your young authors. In considering traits of an author, stunning geodes led us to consider the trait of wonder, antique keys helped us create analogies about imagination, and today we looked at dedication. An author takes risks, perseveres, and writes and rewrites. We looked at Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 2- Genetic Epidemiology (Rising 6th/7th)

Jun. 20, 2017—I just have to start off by saying how impressed I am with your students. I’m sure I’ll say it many more times before this weeks is over, but they truly amaze me. Yesterday may have been a review day, but today we jumped straight into the deep end. It was hard! But boy do...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 2- Me, Myself and the Monomyth (Rising 6th/7th)

Jun. 20, 2017—Structuralism contends that if a reader is familiar with the established patterns in literature then they will be able to better understand that piece of literature. We put this theory to the test today by continuing to learn about Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory and applying it to Scott O’dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins and...

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Summer SAVY 2017, Session 2/Day 2- Policies and Politics (Rising 6th/7th)

Jun. 20, 2017—Day 2 in Politics and Policies was a huge success.  Today we talked taxes.  Yesterday we learned about what government does and how much it costs, so today we moved on to where government gets its money.  We actually focused on how we can evaluate whether a tax is “good” or not.  Please ask your...

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