Summer SAVY 2022/Session 1 – Matter Mysteries for Rising 1st/2nd Grade
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Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 3, In the Mind’s Eye: Truth vs Perception (5th-6th)
Nov. 6, 2023—Hello, families of budding philosophers! Well, it was our final day, and we learned a lot! Today we reinvestigated the nature of truth and dug deeper into the meaning behind the allegory of Plato’s Cave. We finished our debate on whether reality is subjective or objective and then began to work on our own interpretations...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 3, Coding and Robotics (5th-6th)
Nov. 6, 2023—Engaging Collaboration and Coding with Mars Rovers: Session 3 of SAVY-Coding and Robotics Welcome to Session 3 of our exciting journey into the world of robotics! Over the last few Saturdays, we’ve witnessed an impressive display of creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork from our enthusiastic young robotics engineers. Today, the campers explored movement and sensor programming...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 3, Superhero Psychology: How Heroes and Villains Think and Feel (3rd-4th)
Nov. 6, 2023—Hi there, amazing, fantastic, incredible, astonishing, and uncanny people! We were both happy and sad to welcome everyone back for the last week of the course. It has been a fantastic 3 weeks filled with lots of learning and fun! To start, we wanted to give students the opportunity to show off just how...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 3, Adventures in Algebra (3rd-4th)
Nov. 6, 2023—Thank you, students and families, for a great session of Adventures in Algebra! On our last day, we celebrated our math learning by creating, polishing, and playing math board games using the various skills we have learned over the past three sessions together. Students revised procedural writing, made a game board blueprint, developed and decorated...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 3, Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead! (1st-2nd)
Nov. 6, 2023—Today was an amazing day! The students were able to build three different types of bridges–a beam bridge, a deep beam bridge, and an arch bridge. They tested those bridges for strength by adding weight. Then, they designed their own bridge where they had to have a “barge” pass under, a toy car drive over,...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 3, Encounters with Measurement (1st-2nd)
Nov. 6, 2023—Our last Saturday of Encounters with Measurement was engaging and challenging! We started out the day with a “Feelings Check-in”, where many students shared that they were happy or excited about the day, and some reflected that they were also a little sad that it was our last session together. As the instructor and classroom assistant, we...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 3, Becoming a Botanist (K)
Nov. 6, 2023—Students had a wonderful final day of Saturday SAVY. After sharing observations made over the week of our seeds, we then reviewed parts of the seed and pollination. We also debriefed on the terrariums and considered plants’ needs. Students then compared a variety of plants. After noticing different leaves, colors, flowers, and stems we reviewed...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 2, In the Mind’s Eye: Truth vs Perception (5th-6th)
Oct. 30, 2023—Hello families! The theme of Saturday was ‘twisting our perceptions’. We started out discussing things we empirically can know with our senses a la Aristotle before jumping into a famous philosophical thought experiment that essentially boils down to: How do we know we aren’t “brains in a vat?” We talked about it extensively in our circle...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 2, Coding and Robotics (5th-6th)
Oct. 30, 2023—Unleashing Creativity and Innovation: Session Two SAVY-Coding and Robotics Welcome back to our exciting journey through the world of robotics! We hope your robotics engineer had a fantastic first day in our Robotic Engineering course, where they were introduced to the Engineering Design Process and the incredible LEGO Spike Prime Robotics kit. This Saturday,...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 2, Superhero Psychology: How Heroes and Villains Think and Feel (3rd-4th)
Oct. 30, 2023—Hello there Avengers, Titans, and Justice Leaguers, We were so excited to see everyone’s happy faces this week. This week we welcomed Mr. Zach (different from Dr. Zach) as our classroom manager and dived back into the world of Superhero Psychology! We started class with a reminder of what psychology is and finished our comic stories...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 2, Adventures in Algebra (3rd-4th)
Oct. 30, 2023—Welcome back to Adventures in Algebra! We continued our explorations of patterns and algebraic thinking with a hundreds chart exploration! Students identified patterns with multiples. This empowered us to solve for variables on arrays. Once our mathematicians developed rules for navigating the hundreds chart to solve variables, we expanded our skills with arrow math. Given...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 2, Engineering Design: Full STEAM Ahead! (1st-2nd)
Oct. 30, 2023—It was another great day of engineering at SAVY today. To start off our second day, we reviewed the story about Javier building a bridge and discussed the three different bridge types we learned from the previous Saturday. Students then learned about pushes and pulls and the impact they can have on structures. These pushes...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 2, Encounters with Measurement (1st-2nd)
Oct. 30, 2023—Our second Saturday of Encounters with Measurement was a busy one! Following a quick community-building game of “Four Corners”, our young mathematicians got right to work on problem-solving tasks involving measurement. They started the day calculating the differences between estimates and actual measurements made last week. Students engaged in sense-making discussions about reasoning for their original...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 2, Becoming a Botanist (K)
Oct. 30, 2023—To begin on Saturday, we observed the terrariums planted last week and discussed changes. We noticed condensation on the roof of the terrariums and learned about the water cycle. We then compared two different flowers, using three of our senses to compare them. We discussed the process of pollination and why plants have flowers. We ended...
Fall Saturday SAVY, Week 1, In the Mind’s Eye: Truth vs Perception (5th-6th)
Oct. 23, 2023—Hello families! The theme of our day was “Investigating Reality”. We started out, once we had memorized each other’s names backward and forwards, with a Socratic seminar in a circle about the nature of reality. We came up with several different definitions and then discussed how we understand or know reality. Is it empirically with...