Summer SAVY 2022/Session 1 – Matter Mysteries for Rising 1st/2nd Grade
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Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Science Communication and Immunology (7th – 8th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Today, we focused on how to communicate some of the science we’ve learned already. As a large group, we brainstormed different people a scientist might have to communicate with and came up with a great list – other scientists in the lab, your boss, investors or funding agencies, news reporters, friends, and family. Each target...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, How to Change the World, Social Movements & Collective Action (7th – 8th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Dear Parents, Today, we continued our exciting journey through political anthropology by exploring the origins of the political terms “left” and “right” and examining how these concepts have influenced societies and movements for change throughout history. The Origins of “Left” and “Right” in Politics Our lesson began with a look at the French Revolution, where...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Intro to Engineering (Green & Shuman) (5th – 6th)
Jul. 23, 2024—After a brief overview of what we talked about yesterday, students returned to finalizing and testing their trebuchets. Then, students dove straight into Civil Engineering. In the morning, we learned how supertall skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia are designed and built. Students became Structural and Construction...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Individuality vs Conformity (5th – 6th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Hello SAVY families! Today, we continued our discussions on individuality and identity and began to explore the unique way that people see the world and express themselves. We talked about all the different means of human expression and how we make our mark on the world – whether through creative arts like painting and...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, The Story of you! Autobiography (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 23, 2024—And just like that day 2 has come to an end! Today, we started our day with a word sort. Students were given a list of 40 words and had to sort them into groups based on their own criteria. After discussing what criteria they used to sort (a few groups did small, medium, and...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, The Science of Sense (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 23, 2024—Hello Parents, Welcome to Day 2! Today’s focus was on the fascinating world of sound and how it is produced by vibrations. We continued to emphasize our S.A.V.Y. class creed and ensured everyone followed classroom rules to create a safe and supportive learning environment. Thank you so much for completing last night’s homework with ninety...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Numbers Big and Small (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2024—The students had great enthusiasm today again in Numbers Big & Small! We started the day seeing what 1 thousand, 10 thousand, 100 thousand, and finally 1 million jelly beans look like. The 1 million canister was much taller than a Volkswagen beetle! The class created a room-length number line from 1-10,000. They measured to...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Intro to Coding (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2024—What amazing strides we are making in our coding knowledge! We started the day reviewing our code definition and were introduced to the vocabulary words, ‘computer programmer’ and ‘sequence.’ We practiced sequence and code by pretending that Mrs. Lewis was the programmer and the students were the computers. She programmed the class to do the...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 2, Creative Contraptions (1st – 2nd)
Jul. 23, 2024—Another great day! It was amazing to investigate today! With our hypothesis in hand, we completed our experiment by observing the steepness of inclined planes with surfaces of various degrees of smoothness and roughness and the resulting speed of two identical cars. We considered the data and understood that while rough surfaces inhibit motion, the...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, Urban Transportation and Data Analytics (7th – 8th)
Jul. 22, 2024—Today, we covered the topic of Urban Transportation, which is divided into three main sections: Transportation Timeline, Organizations, Modes, Demands, & Demographics; Understanding Urban Transportation; and The Future of Urban Mobility. The first section provides an insight into the evolution of transportation, starting from the construction of the first toll road in 1795 in...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, Science Communication and Immunology (7th – 8th)
Jul. 22, 2024—This week, we are diving into the fascinating world of the human immune system while also bringing in multidisciplinary skills such as experimental design, communicating science to a variety of audiences, and understanding how public health measures can improve human disease. This morning, we began our session by meeting six major players of the...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, Social Movements and Collective Action (7th – 8th)
Jul. 22, 2024—Dear Parents, Today, our students embarked on an exciting journey into the world of anthropology, the study of what it means to be human. Our morning began with an introduction to the discipline, where we explored how thinking deeply about culture, our own and others, can “make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.” This...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, Intro to Engineering (Green & Shuman) (5th – 6th)
Jul. 22, 2024—We have begun to journey through what it takes to be and think like an engineer. We also began to explore the four major types of engineering that we will dive into later this week. Today, we learned the engineering design process through building paper airplanes and a trebuchet. In the morning, we applied the...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, Individuality vs Conformity (5th – 6th)
Jul. 22, 2024—Hello SAVY families! Well, this course is sure to be full of fascinating personalities and ideas! It is already clear that many of our students have complex and interesting perspectives and ideas, and I can’t wait to see what we discover about each other as we investigate our similarities and differences and learn to...
Summer SAVY, Session 6 Day 1, The Story of You! Autobiography (3rd – 4th)
Jul. 22, 2024—Day 1 of The Story of You was a great success! Our group began our morning by introducing ourselves and playing a “This or That” game. They had to choose between a beach day or a camping trip, candy or ice cream, and video games or sports. After getting to know each other, we discussed...