SAVY Category
Saturday SAVY, Day 1, Secrets of the MoLi Stone (3rd-4th)
Oct. 28, 2024—Hello SAVY Families, Day one of Fall SAVY 2024 was full of creativity, curiosity, and the development of mathematical skills. I was so impressed by the SAVY mathematician’s dedication and hard work today, and I am honored to get to tell you about it. To start our morning, we got to know one another using...
Saturday SAVY, Day 1, Industrial Engineering (3rd-4th)
Oct. 28, 2024—Meeting our 3rd/4th grade SAVY students for our Industrial Engineering class was such a pleasure. Our Making Friends with Math icebreaker gave me a chance to get to know them better, as we spend the next couple of Saturdays together. Our first conversation of the day showed that many students thought of technology as only...
Saturday SAVY, Day 1, Creative Contraptions (1st-2nd)
Oct. 28, 2024—Hello parents and families! We had such a wonderful first day of learning and growing together in Creative Contraptions. Thank you for sharing your eager inventors with us! Today, we embarked on an exciting journey into the world of systems and inventions. Here’s a glimpse of what we explored: Understanding Systems with a Car Example ...
Saturday SAVY, Day 1, Plants and Pollen (1st-2nd)
Oct. 28, 2024—We had a wonderful first day with all our Agricultural Engineers. We started our morning meeting by introducing ourselves, and we got to know each other through an interesting fact everyone shared about themselves. We then ascertained norms for our time together, and students worked in teams to produce posters to remind us to Be...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, Individuality vs Conformity (5th-6th)
Jul. 26, 2024—Hello and, sadly, goodbye SAVY families! The last day is always a bittersweet time for me. On the one hand, our wonderful individuals in this course have (hopefully) grown and learned new and exciting things. On the other hand, I will have to say goodbye and wait to see them next year. True to...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, Urban Transportation and Data (7th-8th)
Jul. 26, 2024—In today’s session, we explored the safe system approach in greater depth, with a focus on designing and operating roadway systems to minimize fatalities and serious injuries resulting from human errors. We emphasized the importance of managing kinetic energy transfer within survivable limits, going beyond simply controlling speed. Our discussion also covered perception blindness and...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, Science Communication and Immunology (7th-8th)
Jul. 26, 2024—What an exciting week, particularly the last day we’ve had in the SciComm and Immunology classroom. This morning, the students were very excited to see what grew on their plates from our microbiology experiment yesterday. We discussed some challenges of scientific research as well as the parts of a research report. The students...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, How to Change the World: Social Movements & Collective Action (7th-8th)
Jul. 26, 2024—Dear Parents, We had a fantastic day of student presentations to conclude our week together! Independent Research Projects and Presentations Students have spent time all week working on independent research projects on various social movements, examining the movements’ goals, impacts, strategies, and tactics. Today, we had the joy of learning from each of them! The...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, Intro to Engineering (Shuman & Green) (5th-6th)
Jul. 26, 2024—We finished off our week of Introduction to Engineering with chemical and biological engineering. Through learning about the world’s worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal Union Carbide Disaster, students grasped the importance of designing processes and plants with safety as the highest priority. Students also discovered the chemical processes that make PET, an extremely common polymer...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 5, The Story of You! Autobiography (3rd-4th)
Jul. 26, 2024—It’s the Friday Finale! We started our day with a would you rather activity with exercise moves to make sure everyone was awake and ready for the day. After that, we did a quick editing task to remind ourselves of the rules about capitalization and punctuation before we went through our own autobiography to...