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Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, Animal Adaptations (Kent)
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: We started our day discussing specific adaptations that organisms use for survival. These adaptations included behavior as well as body parts. We then learned about different appendages and how they are used by a variety of organisms for survival. We broke down Scientific Classification and gave examples from each Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, Animal Adaptations (Gruchot)
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Dear SAVY Families, WOW! What a fun, engaging day that we had at SAVY Session 4: Animal Adaptations. I think your scientists will agree that today was the best one yet! We started the morning by rotating through adaptations stations. Using the animal flashcards, students had to find a common adaptation between the...
Summer Career Connections Session 4, Day 3, Math and Music
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: In today’s convergence of math and music, we learned about geometry in music, graphing melodies, and the art of conducting. This blog post chronicles a day filled with excitement, exploration, and a newfound appreciation for the hidden mathematical beauty within music. The day began with a captivating exploration of what geometry is...
Summer Career Connections Session 4, Day 3, Neuroscience 101
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: Happy Wednesday everyone! I can’t believe we are halfway through the week already! This morning’s icebreaker was “What Crumbl cookie would you pick this week?”, so you can blame me if your students come home begging for cookies. We also looked through some more fun facts about the brain, including that we should...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 3, From Myth to Modern Legend (Schwartz)
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: Today, we studied more classical heroes and villains in order to help students practice thinking about perspective and characterization as they prepare to write their own myths tomorrow and Friday. After reading the stories of Theseus, Ariadne, Daedalus, Icarus, and the Minotaur, we read literature (both poetry and prose) and looked at paintings...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 3, From Myth to Modern Legend (Waxman)
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: This morning in Greek Mythology: Myth to Modern Legend, we picked up where we left off with our study of the Hercules myth and how it compares to the animated film. After finishing our Socratic-style seminar, students split into groups and created their own “deleted scene” to make the film more accurate to...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 3, Planning for the Future
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: Today, students investigated what qualities allow certain items to be recyclable while other items are not. We made predictions using different recycling data and found some surprising statistics about recycling in the US, specifically in terms of single-use plastic water bottles After lunch, students used the data collected earlier to develop a call...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 3, Programming and Robotics
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: What a day of programming! We have filled our brains with new vocabulary this week and it is imperative to use it while we code, so we started with a review. Then, we continued reading The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown to inspire futuristic thinking for the rest of the day. Developing...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 3, Fractions at Work
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: Today, we focused on developing a variety of strategies for comparing and ordering fractions. Students compared and ordered sets of fractions applying to their new strategies, as well as changing mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa. Our daily activity was to leap our frogs down their path and mark the fractions...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 3, Mythology
Jul. 12, 2023—Day 3: What a wonder-filled Wednesday (Thanks to Woden)! We began the day by sitting outside near one of our beautiful Peabody Campus buildings, Wyatt, and identified the architectural elements we had studied the previous day. The students sketched what they observed and labeled the elements with their newly acquired vocabulary. Why do some buildings...