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Summer SAVY Session 1, Day 1 – Dabbling with DNA
Jun. 12, 2023—Day 1: Good evening! The first day of Dabbling with DNA was successful. We have an enthusiastic group of students who are very interested in science, eager to learn about DNA, and share their thoughts on science and just about anything else. After introductions, and sharing one or many talents, we spent the morning talking...
Summer SAVY Session 1, Day 1 – Agricultural Engineering
Jun. 12, 2023—Day 1: We are working our way through the Engineering Design Process and applying our learning to our hand pollinators, flowers, and insects. Today we explored vocabulary words that tie into technology, agricultural engineering, and pollinators. We determined reasons for variance in materials and textures that will be useful when designing our products. We applied learning...
Summer SAVY Session 1, Day 1 – Creative Contraptions (Dunbar)
Jun. 12, 2023—Thanks to a wonderful group of little scientists, we are off to a wonderful start! Learning what a scientist is, some of the different things they study, and the method they use to gather their findings kicked off the creative contraptions class. Students then practiced going through the scientific method to investigate what makes a...
Summer SAVY Session 1, Day 1 – Creative Contraptions (Kent)
Jun. 12, 2023—Day 1: We had a wonderful day getting to know each other. This morning we learned a little about each other and established some expectations for working together. In working towards our objective of imagining and creating our own inventions to solve real-world problems, we started by determining what scientists are, what they do,...
Spring SAVY 2023: Neuroscience Navigators (Stuckelman) for Grades 3 & 4
Feb. 6, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Hi parents and friends of the Neuroscience Navigators! This week we finished the class strong. It was so great to have everyone back in class, and the students were incredibly excited to be back. We started the day by splitting up the two sections of the course so that some...
Spring SAVY 2023: Neuroscience Navigators (Feller) for Grades 3 & 4
Feb. 6, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Hi parents! Today was a bittersweet ending to the Spring SAVY session. I am genuinely grateful for having such an outstanding group of students and will miss having them in my class. Each of your kids demonstrated impressive curiosity, determination, and generosity toward their instructors and fellow students. You and...
Spring SAVY 2023: Neuroscience Navigators for Grades 3 & 4
Jan. 30, 2023—Hello there parents and friends of the Neuroscience Navigators! Yesterday we welcomed your students to the wonderful world of neuroscience. The day started off with a big surprise, as both sections of the class combined to make one enthusiastic group of learners for the day. This allowed the students to get to know one another...
Spring SAVY 2023: Spatial Smarts for Grades 1 & 2
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Dear SAVY Parents, Thank you for the opportunity to work with your child at SAVY in the Spatial Smarts course. What an action-packed day we had on Saturday as we concluded our spatial reasoning studies! On this day, your child was challenged to visualize models and two-dimensional representations of 3D...
Spring SAVY 2023: Becoming a Botanist for Kindergarten
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Today students applied their knowledge of plants to discussions about trees. The book Be a Tree by Maria Gianferrari contains many facts about trees that we used to determine how a tree is a system. The book also draws comparisons between trees and people. Students thought abstractly and made connections...
Spring SAVY 2023: Cracking the Case (Mall) for Grades 1 & 2
Jan. 30, 2023—Day 3: Saturday, February 11 Greetings! Well, it is official–the kids cracked the case! After days of learning how to collect evidence and examine crime scenes and different types of evidence collection, they discovered that the theft was actually a case of a misunderstanding. They cracked the case after some fingerprint analysis, handwriting analysis, and...