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Summer Career Connections Session 6, Day 2, The Next Great Debate

Jul. 25, 2023—Tuesday July 25th, 2023    Good afternoon families and great debaters! Today we learned about all the different ways to attack and defend an argument. In the morning session, we learned about the art of rebuttal and refutation – how to present a good counterargument or refutation, what the different types of argumentative attack and...

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Summer Career Connections Session 6, Day 2, Conservation Paleobiology

Jul. 25, 2023—Day 2 of SAVY kicked off with a bang, as students entered the room in exasperation of the terms they did not understand from last night’s reading. We went through the article and used context clues (including hints from elsewhere in the sentence and Latin roots and prefixes) to define complex terms including temporal (relating to time), biogeochemical cycles (a...

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Summer Career Connections Session 6, Day 2, Molecular Gastronomy

Jul. 25, 2023—Happy Taco Tuesday Parents and Families!  Today was another day of fun, food, and friends! Once again, your children came in full of energy and pep, and this resulted in many interesting stories and discussions about food. It has been an active start to the week, and I can’t wait to see where the rest...

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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 2, Harry Potter (Lowery)

Jul. 25, 2023—Our witches and wizards started off day 2 of wizarding school in charms class. There, we learned about magnets and molecular magnetism. We saw that there are many different types of magnetism and that everything is magnetic! We even watched a frog levitate by using magnetic properties. Armed with this new knowledge, we used our...

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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 2, Harry Potter (Owens)

Jul. 25, 2023—Our witches and wizards started off day 2 of wizarding school in charms class. There, we learned about magnets and molecular magnetism. We saw that there are many different types of magnetism and that everything is magnetic! We even watched a frog levitate by using magnetic properties. Armed with this new knowledge, we used our...

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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 2, Writing with Fire

Jul. 25, 2023—Today was another exciting day for our young authors as we made our way deeper into Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming. After trying haikus and free verse poetry yesterday, we put our practice creating metaphors, similes, and more to work as we wrote more pieces inspired by Woodson’s text. Students thought about the theme of...

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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 2, Forces of Nature

Jul. 25, 2023—Whew! We went over a lot of basic and complex information about wind and weather, energy, electricity, and mechanical engineering. The students were able to complete their story element packet based on the chapter book Leif Catches the Wind and relate it to the Engineering Design Process (EDP). The students had the opportunity to build...

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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 2, Electrical Engineering

Jul. 25, 2023—So many amazing discussions and discoveries today!  I trust your child is furthering their understandings by talking and researching with you at home.     We began by finalizing our new understandings of the scavenger hunt of the classroom from yesterday.  We worked to find all the electrical devices built into our space: outlets, switches, lights,...

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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 2, Cracking the Case

Jul. 25, 2023—Our class excelled at creating our fingerprints yesterday. Today, they made a very impressive model of a DNA strand. Students learned about what DNA is and how it is used in forensic science. Then, students completed a lab experiment where they extracted DNA from a strawberry. How cool! This is one that they might want to recreate...

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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 2, Intro to Chemical Engineering (Whiting)

Jul. 25, 2023—Happy Tuesday! Today in chemical engineering, we explored the very important job of product research.   Each morning, our class answers a would you rather question in our morning meeting. Today, we used our question to explore how to present data; we discussed bar graphs, pie charts, numbers, and tallies.   Our data conversation was crucial to the...

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