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Summer Career Connections Session 5, Day 5, Creative Writing: Short Stories

Jul. 21, 2023—Happy Friday! We had an exciting, fun-filled final day of Creative Writing: Short Stories! Students spent the morning finishing their final projects, which were more extended versions short stories that they started from our exercises throughout the week. Some students chose to work on more extended projects that they will continue to develop at home,...

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Summer Career Connections Session 5, Day 5, Astrophysics: Extrasolar Planets

Jul. 21, 2023—We had an awesome end to our week of exploring Astrophysics and Extrasolar Planets - it was our Poster Presentation Day! During the morning, we created research posters and we were quite impressed how students were able to pull things together to make excellent research presentations. Some were a little stressed at the end, but...

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Summer SAVY Session 5, Day 5 Math and Music

Jul. 21, 2023—We are so sad to see our Math and Music students leave! Today was a wonderful conclusion to an outstanding week of learning and creating. This morning we investigated how the lengths of the tools we’ve been using all week affect their sound. Students used tape measures to measure the length of our Boomwhackers and...

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Summer SAVY Session 5, Day 5, Aquatic Ecology

Jul. 21, 2023—Happy Friday! The day was spent doing research on how to mitigate the effects of nutrient additions to aquatic systems and writing a report, in poster form, presenting the main topic of the week, what we learned about it, and discussing mitigation. I tasked them to go beyond simply saying that we need to reduce...

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Summer SAVY Session 5, Day 5, Programming and Robotics

Jul. 21, 2023—We were in full programming mode on our last day! These programmers know how to use their new vocabulary, so not only can they walk the walk, but they can also talk the talk. They put together all of the skills they acquired this week and developed a fun program in the sprite lab. It...

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Summer SAVY Session 5, Day 5, Mathematicians in History: Patterns, Order, and Relationships

Jul. 21, 2023—We really did not want this week to end! The challenges were daunting, but most expressed the work to be rewarding. In today’s lessons, we observed two mathematicians who appreciated, challenged, and supported each other’s work though they never met. Through letters between their separate countries who were at war with one another, and despite...

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Summer SAVY Session 5, Day 5, Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead!

Jul. 21, 2023—Dear Parents, I hope your children have enjoyed their week in Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead as much as I have! We ended our day with a final bridge building challenge. Student chose to either work independently or with a partner for this challenge. Our guiding question for today was: “How can we use our...

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Summer SAVY Session 5, Day 5, Beyond the Pyramids

Jul. 21, 2023—This morning we used Zoom to talk to an Egyptologist from the University of Michigan. Students prepared questions based on this week’s instruction. We learn that all artifacts in museums outside of Egypt were acquired before the 1970s. Laws passed requiring Egyptologists to leave artifacts in Egypt and go there to study them. The students...

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Summer SAVY Session 5, Day 5, Dive Into Design

Jul. 21, 2023—We had the most productive day. Students wowed me with their focus at the start of the day comparing and measuring lengths using inches to the nearest quarter inch. Students learned about perimeter as the distance around a shape. Students started measuring the objects on their pool projects. They are finding the length, width, height,...

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Summer Career Connections Session 5, Day 4, Creative Writing: Short Stories

Jul. 20, 2023—Happy Thursday! Today in Creative Writing: Short Stories, we started the morning with our usual “would you rather” warm-up questions. Students enjoyed discussing the topics with different partners! From there, we finished up our study of the historical fiction genre. Students used the characters that they created earlier in the week and put them in...

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