SEP Session 2, Day 3 (9-11)

Each day, we will feature several courses. Throughout the session, we will feature as many courses as possible.

Today in "Parsing Primary Sources: Learning to Read Like a Historian," SEP 9-11 Historian’s went on a field trip to UVA’s Albert and Shirley’s Small Special Collection Library. Students learned about small collection libraries and how they can use them as resources and use the materials available. Students had the opportunity to look at rare books, documents, and newspapers from the civil rights movement, many of which told stories from right here in Charlottesville and tackled topics such as integration of many local schools.

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Today in "Engineering Hogwarts," students split up into groups and designed different sections of a colony based on Star Trek. Groups were assigned to design food, water, agriculture, medical, housing and transportation components for the colony. Each group built their parts and presented it to the class. The class then came together to assemble the different parts of the colony and to create a constitution. Immediately following the whole group construction, was an in depth discussion about what was easy and difficult about working in such a large group. Students noted that they were good at generating a lot of ideas but struggled to narrow down their ideas. This activity gave students the opportunity to learn about what it is like for engineers to work in small and large groups and the drawbacks and benefits of each.

Today in "How to Make a Podcast," students practiced editing podcasts and talked about interviewing. Students earned how to use the website twistedwave.com to edit and were tasked with creating a 1 minute mini-podcast to share with the class. For their final podcasts, students chose a class topic of "camp/education." Students will be working in small groups to create episodes related to this topic.

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Nicole,