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Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 1, Mythology
Jul. 10, 2023—Day 1: In the Beginning… Our class had a tremendous start today with an exploration of creation myths from around the world and numerous cultures. What are myths? What is the purpose and what relevance do they have in our culture today? The students were so eager to share what they already know about Mythology...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 1, Operation Save the Beach
Jul. 10, 2023—Day 1: Our mission to save the beach is off to a great start! This morning we got to know one another and discussed our background knowledge about beaches. I read Ada Twist, Scientist by Beaty Roberts to start a discussion about the importance of asking questions as we think like scientists. The students were...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 1, Animal Adaptations (Kent)
Jul. 10, 2023—Day 1: It was wonderful to meet our eager animal experts today. We started our day by discussing what scientists do and we played the I Have Who Has Scientist game which taught us about a variety of different scientists. We then discussed basic needs for survival and related this to our classroom mealworms and...
Summer SAVY Session 4, Day 1, Animal Adaptations (Gruchot)
Jul. 10, 2023—Day 1: Hello SAVY Families! The scientist in your family had an engaging, informative first day of SAVY Session 4: Animal Adaptations. Today, your scientists learned more about their role for this week. We started our class by positioning ourselves as scientists and discussing what it means to be a scientist. We talked about the...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 5– Theory, Criticism, and The Force: An Academic Study of Star Wars
Jun. 30, 2023—Day 5: Thank you, Students of Theory, Criticism, and The Force! Thank you for today’s session. Thank you for the week we’ve had. Thank you for expanding the greater study of Star Wars as a cultural artifact! Today, we added several new lenses to our collection. We broke free of Structuralism and dove head-first into...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 5 – Fission and Fusion: Nuclear Engineering 101
Jun. 30, 2023—Day 5: Good evening SAVY students and parents! WOW! What a wonderful day to wrap up our nuclear energy camp! Today, we continued to delve deeper into the Chernobyl Disaster and investigate the lasting impact on the environment from the radiation. Students were able to make connections to similar impacts that air pollution has on...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 5 – Industrial Engineering: Machines at Work
Jun. 30, 2023—Day 5: Industrial Engineers and their Families, We’ve had a full last SAVY day! Students spent the day engaged in the Engineering Design Process or in business meetings. At our first business meeting, students presented their companies and initial designs. Our companies included T-Rex Tech Inc., Tech Solves, First Class Engineering, and Magic Machines! Then,...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 5– Solving for the Unknown: Mathematical Problems, Patterns, and Variables
Jun. 30, 2023—Day 5: “At the Mall” Cumulating Project Students worked in pairs to create advertisements for their shop at the mall. I was so impressed with each group’s store presentation as students shopped for items. Each of the store owners collaborated to choose the type of shop, name the shop, items to include, and equations for...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 5 – Transformations in Writing
Jun. 30, 2023—Day 5: On our last day of summer camp, we really enjoyed ourselves. To start the morning, we all took a post-test to see what we had improved on over the week. We finished our transformations comics with figurative language and gave our classmates time to read theirs! Our afternoon began with a class read-aloud...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 5 – Games Galore
Jun. 30, 2023—Day 5: We had an exciting last day of our Games Galore session! Today, students started the day learning about sample spaces. They learned that a sample space is a way of showing all possible outcomes for an event. Students practiced identifying sample spaces for a variety of situations. They then used the morning to...