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Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4AM, Day 8) – Budding Botanist

Jul. 20, 2016—Field Trip Day! The kids have decided that today was the best day ever!  We had so much fun at the greenhouse on campus.  It is actually located on the 7th floor, and had rooms that were cool for plants that grow in higher elevations or cooler environments, a hot house for tropical plants, and...

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Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4PM, Day 7) – Fact and Fiction: The New World

Jul. 19, 2016—We started today by asking a simple questions: What is a conquistador? Our recent readings have been showing that a simple picture of conquistadors is not adequate: they may have been brave, adventurous, cruel, and greedy, but many were also poor, opportunistic, frightened, and vulnerable. Many were not even European, like we saw yesterday. Today,...

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Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4PM, Day 7) – Story Creations

Jul. 19, 2016—Dear Parents: Our day began as we gathered together at the carpet to think about the personal narratives we started yesterday. I asked the class to think about how they could make their stories better, like effective authors do. I told the children that when I teach writing to my third graders each year in...

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Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4AM, Day 7) – Memory and the Brain

Jul. 19, 2016—Today, the students got to learn more about how brain cells talk to each other to make memories. We started by learning more about synapses and action potentials, and we acted out an action potential as a class. Make sure to ask your child which role they played! Then, we took a field trip to...

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Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4AM/PM, Day 7) – The Science of Complexity

Jul. 19, 2016—We started a new complex system today – genetics! Students learned that DNA controls our traits with genes. In this system, the “parts” are letters, like ACTG. The rules are about how these parts can bind or be used to code for amino acids, and the pattens are the complex living things that DNA codes...

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Summer SAVY 2016 (Session 4AM, Day 7) – Budding Botanist

Jul. 19, 2016—Wow!  Today was very exciting! The students have asked a lot of questions about pollinators and honeybees.  They knew that they were important to the life cycle of plants, but weren’t sure why.  They were amazed to learn what a key role bees play in pollination!  They learned about the roles of the workers, drones,...

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