Grade: 1st

01 Mar 2021

Needs of Living Things on the Farm

August – June

All living things have basic needs.  Come discover what it takes to nurture the organisms big and small around the farm.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • 1.LS.1 Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.

NGSS Standards:

  •  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.
  • 1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • History – Heritage: The ways basic human needs are met have changed over time.
  • Geography – Human Systems: Diverse cultural practices address basic human needs in various ways and may change over time.
  • Economics – Scarcity: Wants are unlimited and resources are limited. Individuals make choices because they cannot have everything they want.

Vocabulary:

Living, nonliving, adaptations, habitat

01 Mar 2021

Collaborative Storytelling

August-June

We work together in many ways every day. Join us at the Arts Center to work as a group of artists to create your own story through team building, music, theatre, and art.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MUS.1.2RE Describe how music communicates feelings, moods, images and meaning
  • VA.1.1PR Demonstrate beginning skill and craftsmanship in the use of art materials and tools
  • VA.1.6PR Engage in artmaking to produce a work that combines music, movement or dramatic play with visual art.

English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
  • ELA.SL.1.1 Participate in collaborative conversations about grade 1 topics and texts with diverse partners in small and larger groups.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.E1. 2.a Identify strategies to solve a problem

 

Vocabulary:

collaboration, teamwork, character, setting, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse

01 Mar 2021

Arts Center Adventure

August-June

From its detailed Norman-style architecture to its 1940s interior renovations, collections of artworks, its enormous Aeolian organ, and hundred-year-old history, the Greenacres Arts Center and its nearby farm and woodland has many stories to tell. Come to explore the hidden treasures of the Arts Center!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.1.3PE Examine one or more cultural and historical artworks and respond to the visual, expressive features in the work.
  • MU.1.7RE Discuss audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.1.5 Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (landforms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A2. 2.a Explore opportunities to develop skills and talents

Vocabulary:

Architecture, history, environment, compare/contrast, line, shape, organ, artwork, artifact

01 Mar 2021

Exploring the Senses

August-June

Have you ever considered how a color could smell? Or how a sound could move around? At the Arts Center, we are ready to explore the connections between our five senses, the artmaking process, and how one person changed the meaning of “art.”

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.1.6PR Engage in artmaking to produce a work that combines music, movement or dramatic play with visual art.
  • MU.1.2RE Discuss how music communicates feelings, moods, images and meaning.
  • TH.1.6PR Work cooperatively to present a tableau, improvisation or pantomime.

English Language Arts:

  • ELA.SL.1.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Vocabulary:

Senses, taste, touch, smell, sound, sight, feelings, synesthesia, Wassily Kandinsky

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