Grade: 1st

07 Nov 2023

Farm Exploration

This program engages students in a hands-on exploration of Greenacres Farm.  We will focus on building age specific skills and apply them to learning about farming practices and the places where we farm.  This is an ideal program for a first time visit to Greenacres or for students to become more familiar with farming.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • K.LS.1: Living things have specific characteristics and traits.
  • 1.ESS.1: The sun is the principal source of energy.
  • 2.LS.1: Living things cause changes on Earth.
  • 3.LS.3: Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.
  • 5.LS.1 Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem.
  • 7.LS.2 In any particular biome, the number, growth and survival of organisms and populations depend on biotic and abiotic factors. Elements can be organized by properties

NGSS Standards:

  • K-ESS3-1.Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
  • K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
  • 1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
  • 2-LS4-1. Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
  • 3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment
  • 4-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
  • Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
  • 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
  • MS-LS1-4 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
  • MS-LS2-1 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem. 

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • History – Heritage: Ideas and events from the past have shaped the world as it is today. The actions of individuals and groups have made a difference in the lives of others.
  • Geography – Places and Regions: A place is a location having distinctive characteristics, which give it meaning and character and distinguish it from other locations. A region is an area with one or more common characteristics, which give it a measure of homogeneity and make it different from surrounding areas. Regions and places are human constructs.
  • Economics – Economic Decision Making and Skills: Effective economic decision making requires students to be able to reason logically about key economic issues that affect their lives as consumers, producers, savers, investors and citizens. Economic decision-making and skills engage students in the practice of analyzing costs and benefits, collecting and organizing economic evidence and proposing alternatives to economic problems.
  • Economics- Scarcity: There are not enough resources to produce all the goods and services that people desire.
  • Economics – Production and Consumption: Production is the act of combining natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship to make goods and services. Consumption is the use of goods and services.

    Vocabulary:

    farming, livestock, observation, senses, tools, living, nonliving, adaptations, soil, water, air, energy, produce, habitats, and ecosystems

    07 Mar 2023

    Arts in the Natural World Series: Ephemeral Art

    March – October

    Ephemeral Art, or Environmental Art, is all about how we can create art outside that leaves no negative environmental impact. Immerse yourself in the natural world and discover how to use your surroundings to create art with mediums you may not have considered before. Programs in the Arts in the Natural World Series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us. This program only operates in warmer months (August-October 31; March 15-June).

     All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • VA.1.3RE Share their artmaking processes with peers.
    • VA.1.2PR Invent imagery and symbols to express thoughts and feelings.

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • PS.1.1 Properties of objects and materials can change.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • SS.Gov.1.9 Collaboration requires group members to respect the rights and opinions of others.

    Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.D1. 2.a Practice giving and receiving feedback in a respectful way.

    Vocabulary:

    ephemeral art, environmental art, natural materials, decompose, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, Richard Schilling, Andy Goldsworthy

    01 Mar 2021

    Fall Harvest/Spring Blooms

    September-October & April-May

    Both Spring and Fall have a lot to offer on a farm!  Come explore the wonders of these two seasons of transition.

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • 1.LS.2: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.

    NGSS Standards:

    • 1-LS3-1. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
    • 1-ESS1-2. Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year. 

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • History – Historical Thinking and Skills: Time can be divided into categories (e.g., months of the year, past, present and future).
    • Geography – Places and Regions: Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (land forms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).
    • Geography – Human Systems: Families interact with the physical environment differently in different times and places.
    • Economics – Production and Consumption: People produce and consume goods and services in the community.

    Vocabulary:

    Season, living, observation, parent, offspring, daylight, spring, fall, harvest, bloom

    01 Mar 2021

    Power of the Sun

    December – February

     The sun, and its energy, is essential to many of the living things on a farm and may even influence more than first meets the eye! While spending time in our Greenhouse and other winter growing areas, we will see first hand the sun at work to overcome any obstacle, like winter. 

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • K.ESS.2: The moon, sun and stars can be observed at different times of the day or night.
    • 1.ESS.1: The sun is the principal source of energy.
    • 2.ESS.3: Long- and short-term weather changes occur due to changes in energy.
    • 3.PS.3: Heat, electrical energy, light, sound and magnetic energy are forms of energy.
    • 4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
    • 5.ESS.3 Most of the cycles and patterns of motion between the Earth and sun are predictable.
    • 6.ESS.4 Soil is unconsolidated material that contains nutrient matter and weathered rock.
    • 7.ESS.5 The relative positions of Earth and the sun cause patterns we call seasons.

    NGSS Standards:

    • 1-ESS1-2. Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
    • 1-ESS1-1. Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
    • 2-LS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
    • 3-ESS2-1. Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
    • 4-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
    • 5-PS3-1 Energy. Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
    • 5-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
    • MS-ESS2-1 Earth’s Systems. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
    • MS-LS1-5 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
    • MS-ESS2-6. Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • Geography – Spatial Thinking and Skills: Spatial thinking examines the relationships among people, places and environments by mapping and graphing geographic data. Geographic data are compiled, organized, stored and made visible using traditional and geospatial technologies. Students need to be able to access, read, interpret and create maps and other geographic representations as tools of analysis.
    • Geography – Places and Regions: A place is a location having distinctive characteristics, which give it meaning and character and distinguish it from other locations. A region is an area with one or more common characteristics, which give it a measure of homogeneity and make it different from surrounding areas. Regions and places are human constructs.
    • Economics – Production and Consumption: Production is the act of combining natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship to make goods and services. Consumption is the use of goods and services.

    Vocabulary:

    Sun, energy, greenhouse, daylight, observation

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