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Summer Career Connections Session 4, Day 4, Math and Music
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Today’s goal was to help our young learners understand the intricate relationship between math and music through PATTERNS! By exploring many kinds of patterns in math and music and engaging in exciting activities like STOMP! drumming and line dancing, we aimed to provide a hands-on experience that would deepen their understanding and appreciation...
Summer Career Connections Session 4, Day 4, Neuroscience 101
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Hello Neuroscience parents, Not too much to report day as we dove into the depths of working on our final projects! But we did spend half of our day priming our brains to work hard with a final group activity – a “group contract work” activity. Your students were shuffled into random groups...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, From Myth to Modern Legend (Schwartz)
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Today, we studied one final story of mythological heroism, began our own myth-making, and finished our Greek-inspired board games. In the morning, we began by reading and discussing the story of Jason and the Argonauts, which brings together many of the characters whom we have met throughout the week for a final heroic...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, From Myth to Modern Legend (Waxman)
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Today in Myth to Modern Legend, we focused on the later elements of the Greek mythology canon. In particular, we learned about Jason and the Argonauts, the Trojan War, and the Odyssey. Students concocted their own versions of Medea’s sleeping potion (to make the dragon that guards the Golden Fleece go to sleep)...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, Planning for the Future
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Today in Planning for the Future, students explored oil spills through the lens of percent change. We looked at how researchers can use a measurement of the concentration of oil in a sample of ocean water to estimate the size of an oil spill or how widely the spill has already spread. Students...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, Programming and Robotics
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: We didn’t waste any time getting started today because we had a packed day of new ideas planned! That didn’t keep us from getting started by reading The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown to help inspire our brains about what future robots might be able to do automatically. Automatically was our theme...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, Fractions at Work
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Today, we combined all of our fraction understanding skills – equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, improper fractions, making common denominators, and comparing fractions – to begin adding and subtracting fractions. We began the morning with a fraction problem about Mountain Dew, which students claimed made them terribly thirsty for a glass of one! The...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, Mythology
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Menacing Monsters (and the monsters within ourselves) and the Heros that overcome them were a big hit today! We started the day with a reading of Medusa. We looked for evidence of mythological influences (a journey, positive and negative character traits, change, and of course monsters) in this story. Throughout the day, we...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 4, Operation Save the Beach
Jul. 13, 2023—Day 4: Today, we took our walking field trip! We visited the stream table at a lab in the Stevenson Center. Our host, Sarah, explained how the table works to simulate erosion. She told us about what she is studying as she works on her PhD and shared how the stream table helps scientists study...
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,...