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Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 3 – Industrial Engineering: Machines at Work
Jun. 28, 2023—Day 3: Industrial Engineers and their Families, Today, like every day, we started our day in Morning Meeting. To conclude our meeting, we watched a video about Lillian Gilbreth, who is a Purdue alumna known as the “Mother of Engineering”. She pioneered the entire field of industrial engineering as one of the first women in...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 3– Solving for the Unknown: Mathematical Problems, Patterns, and Variables
Jun. 28, 2023—Day 3: In “Solving for the Unknown” course today, we had a great hands-on opportunity to make a model of math thinking during our Pet Parade lesson. Students worked with partners to problem-solve about animals. They practiced multiple strategies like the working backward method and the guess and check method. Students used logical reasoning to...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 3 – Transformations in Writing
Jun. 28, 2023—Day 3: Halfway through the week, and every day the students are diving deeper into their stories! In the morning, the students discussed figurative language, and how it can add or take away from a story. They worked with a partner to come up with examples for similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and many more! Then, they...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 3 – Games Galore
Jun. 28, 2023—Day 3: It was another fantastic day in our SAVY Games Galore class! Students were introduced to the concept of uniformity. We explored examples of how uniformity in nature assists with making accurate predictions about outcomes. Students learned that some predictions require stable conditions and become less likely if conditions change. Other predictions are based...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 3 – Matter Mysteries
Jun. 28, 2023—Day 3: It’s been an exciting day at Matter Mysteries. We started the day off by playing detective and identifying and recreating a “mystery goop” that turned out to be…oobleck! The kids had a great time discussing how the substance mimics the properties of both solids and liquids. We also learned about chemical and physical...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 2 – Theory, Criticism, and The Force: An Academic Study of Star Wars
Jun. 27, 2023—Day 2: Students of Theory, Criticism, and The Force: Thank you for today’s session! Wow, we covered a LOT of content today. Congratulations on deftly dancing a nimble dance with some complicated pedagogy! We began our day with a revisit of our Five Agreements. I’m so heartened to see and hear the students’ investment in...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 2 – Fission and Fusion: Nuclear Engineering 101
Jun. 27, 2023—Day 2: Nuclear Energy: Friend or Foe Good evening SAVY students and parents! Day 2 was a great success! We continued our investigations of different types of systems this morning. Our nuclear physicists began the day with a nature walk on campus to observe, explore, and record the different systems. We ventured back into the...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 2 – Industrial Engineering: Machines at Work
Jun. 27, 2023—Day 2: Industrial Engineers and their Families, Today, we analyzed the origin of industrial engineering. In the morning, we simulated assembly lines. First, students were tasked with making engineering folders individually; materials were limited to one stapler, one tape dispenser, six rulers, six markers, and paper in each factory. Our stats were dismal: the class...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 2– Solving for the Unknown: Mathematical Problems, Patterns, and Variables
Jun. 27, 2023—Day 2: In Solving for the Unknown, we began our day with some tricky variable puzzles. Each student worked with a partner to reveal the value of each variable in an addition puzzle on a table. Students were then challenged by creating their own addition variable puzzles. Students solved each other’s puzzles. Most students got...
Summer SAVY Session 3, Day 2 – Transformations in Writing
Jun. 27, 2023—Day 2: Today was a great 2nd day in our community, and we hope that it was a great day for you as well! Today was all about character arcs! The students watched a video about character arcs and then discussed with groups a character arc from a popular movie. Some groups chose Mulan from...