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Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 5 – Matter Mysteries
Jun. 30, 2023—Day 5: The final day of Matter Mysteries was an exploding success! Students were able to present their individual and group matter investigations. We had so many amazing creative ideas represented, and the children’s enthusiasm and excitement for their chosen investigations proved that their planning efforts paid off. From erupting volcanoes to soda fountain fun,...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 4– Theory, Criticism, and The Force: An Academic Study of Star Wars
Jun. 29, 2023—Day 4: Families & Friends of Students of Theory & Criticism, well, Thursday was a big day, wasn’t it? We finished breaking Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, including an extended analysis of the crisis/climax fulcrum at the film’s conclusion. Every time I watch this movie, I’m impressed with the number of A...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 4 – Fission and Fusion: Nuclear Engineering 101
Jun. 29, 2023—Day 4: Good evening, SAVY students and parents! Day 4 was a wonderful day!! The nuclear engineers began their day by constructing a BINGO board to review new vocabulary words that we have learned these past few days. They were great-looking boards, and we had so many winners! This was a HUGE hit! Next, we...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 4 – Industrial Engineering: Machines at Work
Jun. 29, 2023—Day 4: Industrial Engineers and their Families, On our second to last day of this course, students are fully engaged in the Engineering Design Process and a simulation that requires all students to think and act like industrial engineers! Students began the day by watching an explanation of how Lays Potato Chips are made. They...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 4– Solving for the Unknown: Mathematical Problems, Patterns, and Variables
Jun. 29, 2023—Day 4: Today in “Solving for the Unknown”, we utilized our knowledge of strategies in solving more problems with multiple variables. Students identified when given a set of equations that go together, which equation is the best starting place to find the solution to the unknown values. This afternoon, we began to prep for our...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 4 – Transformations in Writing
Jun. 29, 2023—Day 4: Today in our writing community, we discussed perspective, point of view, and how they change and influence the story. How does the audience respond to various points of view? Can we as writers use diction and transformations to persuade our audience in a certain way? What role does punctuation play in story development?...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 4 – Games Galore
Jun. 29, 2023—Day 4: Today was an exciting day for our “Games Galore” students! They explored group and individual predictions and learned that sometimes it is not possible to predict the outcome of an individual event, but it may still be possible to predict the average outcome for many similar events. They also continued working on probability...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 4 – Matter Mysteries
Jun. 29, 2023—Day 4: Today, we solved the matter Mystery of “Who Stole the Principal’s Water?” as we learned all about the true culprit–evaporation! We also touched on the concepts of measuring volume and mass and using the respective scientific tools to do so. Using graduated cylinders, measuring cups, and balance beams were some fun, hands-on explorations...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 3 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force: An Academic Study of Star Wars
Jun. 28, 2023—Day 3: Thank you for our session today! I know that I began our day by previewing that we’d begin to explore Ferdinand de Saussure and the study of semiotics. I’m glad, however, that we spent the time that we did on the Monomyth and Blake Snyder’s Beat Sheet. When you recognize how the BS2...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 3 – Fission and Fusion: Nuclear Engineering 101
Jun. 28, 2023—Day 3: Good evening SAVY students and parents! Day 3 was an absolute blast! The nuclear engineers began the day by making a creative model of their own nuclear power plant. They had to draw, label specific parts, and color their plant. Students were so thoughtful, creative, and precise with their designs. We had another...