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Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 4 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 26, 2018—Hi SAVY Parents, We can’t believe the week is almost over! We started the morning learning about scientific literacy, going over some of the basic rules for reading about science. As you all know, the internet is filled with pseudoscientific articles, articles with eye-catching titles claiming to have bizarre cures for various diseases and disorders....
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 25, 2018—This morning, we practiced analyzing compound gear trains using the number of teeth to determine the overall gear ratio of the gear train. Then we produced a two-view drawing of some compound gears. Next we moved on to designing compound gears. That is, determining the numbers of teeth for the gears in each of two...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 3 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 25, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, This morning, students continued to craft their emotion research questions. As a class, students helped each other identify the independent and dependent variables of their classmates’ proposed research questions, determined different ways to measure the variables in their experiments, and came up with ways to increase the internal validities of their experiments....
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Today in class, we continued our work on pulley systems. Our next concern was calculating the relative velocities of objects in the system. For example, how does object A appear to be moving to an observer sitting on object B? We came up with a vector equation for objects moving up and down, and then...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 2 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 24, 2018—Hello SAVY Parents, Students kicked off the second day of “Science of Emotion” by learning about the role of the human brain, and the emotions that the brain produces to help humans survive. After practicing how to identify independent, dependent, and confounding variables, and after reviewing the steps of the scientific method, students learned about...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Kinematics for Mechanical Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 23, 2018—The first day of Kinematics for Mechanical Design is finished! We had a fabulous time getting to know one another, drawing, and learning about the kinematics (motion analysis) of pulley systems. Students have been given a three ring binder and drawing tools to sketch as well as formally draft their ideas. Each notebook has a...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 6, Day 1 – Science of Emotion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 23, 2018—Dear SAVY Parents, Our “Science of Emotion” course is off to a wonderful start! After learning everyone’s favorite emojis and establishing community norms for the class, students discussed the similarities and differences between thinking (cognition) and feeling (emotion). They were then introduced to psychopathology and the idea of heuristics, psychological generalizations based on prior experience...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 5 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 20, 2018—Our final day commenced with the presentation of several students’ practice persuasive speeches. Students adapted to constructive feedback and were able to speak to the whole class with confidence! During this session, we began our exploration of the fifth stage of Monroe’s motivated sequence, the Call to Action. Students incorporated calls to action and “I...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – The Power of Persuasion (Rising 7th)
Jul. 19, 2018—Our morning began with a brisk round of “Bop” to encourage us to remember to attempt to fully see and hear one another. After revisiting yesterday’s content and further exploration of the Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, one student shared a persuasive speech written in response to yesterday’s prompt; though we are still not going to watch...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 5, Day 4 – Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Rising 7th)
Jul. 19, 2018—I can’t believe we are nearing the end of the week. Today was an excellent adventure for our students as they were able to fully act as behavioral economists. This morning they designed their own studies aimed at observing some of the phenomena of human behavior. Groups conducted classroom studies with their peers as participants....