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Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Wonders of Electrochemistry” (7th-8th)
Jul. 11, 2025—SAVY Families, What a wonderful final day of Wonders of Electrochemistry! We began the morning reflecting on our biggest takeaways from the week, and it was inspiring to hear how students now recognize electrochemistry in so many real-world applications, from jewelry-making to medical sensors to electric vehicles. Their ability to make connections between complex science and...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Social Determinants of Health: How Communities and Policies Impact Well-Being” (7th-8th)
Jul. 11, 2025—Today marked the final day of our Social Determinants of Health class, and it was a very inspiring week. Over the past few days, our students have worked hard diving deep into data, policy research, and community-focused problem-solving. We started the morning by finishing our policy projects. Students worked in their teams of three again...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Math & Music” (7th-8th)
Jul. 11, 2025—It’s hard to believe our week together has already ended! Today was our final day in Math and Music, and it was packed with creativity, collaboration, and a whole lot of fun. We started the morning diving into matrices, and how they can be used to organize and solve systems of equations. We talked about...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Truth v Perception” (5th-6th)
Jul. 11, 2025—Hello, families and students! We are coming to the end of a fun and activity-packed week, and I am sad to see everyone go! In our teams, we had a trivia competition and incorporated the bonus blog questions, plus our vocabulary and lots of information from the past few days from all the literature we...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Solving the Chemical Spill: Navigating Ecological and Chemical Systems” (5th-6th)
Jul. 11, 2025—Dear Parents, We were sorry to see Solving the Chemical Spill come to an end today. We thoroughly enjoyed your children this week! We sent our chemical to the Vanderbilt lab, and they identified it as hydrochloric acid, but we used apple cider vinegar in our room just to be safe. We learned about HCl...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Intro to Neurobiology” (5th-6th)
Jul. 11, 2025—We began the day with our students continuing to work on their final projects in a computer lab. Our final project invited students to choose a topic that interests them and is relevant to neurobiology or psychology. Our students worked/researched on questions/issues like what the topic is about, history, challenges, and future directions of research...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Tremendous Transformations in Writing” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 11, 2025—What a week! It has been a true pleasure to spend these five days learning and creating with your precious children. Today was a special day because we transformed from mere mortals into accomplished authors! Ms. A-G, in fact, also transformed today–she became The Story Fairy! Wings, wand, and everything. It was a fun day! ...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “The Science of Senses” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 11, 2025—We had two BIG projects today! For our in-class project, students considered the myth of King Midas and were challenged to invent a way to keep him from turning his food and daughter into gold. This was an extension of our previous lesson on touch that incorporates the Design Thinking Process. We guided the students...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Coding and Robotics” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 11, 2025—What a week! The student programmers quickly learned the skills presented in this course and are ready to take on new challenges in coding and robotics. Not only were they quick learners, but this group also showed exceptional teamwork and collaboration skills. Each toy company team worked hard to complete their challenges. Everyone’s ideas were...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Creature Connections: Animals, Humans, and the Natural World” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 11, 2025— Dear SAVY Families, I cannot believe that our time at SAVY Session 4: Creature Connections has already ended. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time learning with and from the SAVY zoologists this week, and I could not be more pleased with the way our class ended today. To start our day, we returned...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Creative Contraptions: A Study of Inventions” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 11, 2025—It has been a fantastic week of learning together! I am so proud of the work that each of your students did while exploring simple and compound machines this week! We spent most of the morning putting the finishing touches on our inventions. Students completed a presentation form, which served as a template to help...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Wonders of Electrochemistry” (7th-8th)
Jul. 10, 2025—SAVY Families, Today, students explored how electrochemistry plays a vital role in medical technology, focusing on biosensors like glucose monitors. We began with a discussion on familiar medical devices and investigated how electrochemical reactions help monitor health conditions. Students built simple sensor models using basic circuits to simulate how glucose monitors detect changes in conductivity....
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Social Determinants of Health: How Communities and Policies Impact Well-Being” (7th-8th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Today was an energy-filled, thoughtful, and truly rewarding day in our Social Determinants of Health class. We began the day with a game of Jeopardy to review everything we’ve learned this week so far. We had three competitive teams and four categories: Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Research and Data, and Policy Process. I...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Math & Music” (7th-8th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Today in class, we explored the topic of patterns and how they show up all around us. We started by discussing different types of patterns we see in nature, art, and everyday life. It was exciting to realize that patterns aren’t just in math but are everywhere, like in the leaves on trees, the stripes...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Truth v Perception” (5th-6th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Greetings, families and students! What an AWESOME class today! Today was all about Mock Trial and how people perceive the truth, share their perspectives and stories, and how to be persuasive and convince or sway others to your side. It was also about subjectivity and objectivity, learning to lean on the evidence and the...