Grade: 1st

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:

  • MUS.1.4RE Respond to music using movement, dance, drama, or visual art.
  • DN.1.1CR Explore and experiment with locomotor and non-locomotor movements using changes in body shape, time, space, and movement quality.
  • TH.1.3PE Demonstrate various movements, voices, and feelings by performing a variety of familiar roles.
  • VA.1.2CR Explore materials to devise imagery and symbols.

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, emotions, synesthesia, Wassily Kandinsky

26 Feb 2021

Nature Recycling

August-June

In nature, materials are recycled through a variety of processes with the help of fungi, bacteria, and invertebrates. Humans can also play a vital role in recycling. Students will explore the similarities and differences between natural and human recycling while experiencing the diverse habitats at Greenacres.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • PS Grade 1: Properties of objects and materials can change.
  • LS Grade 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.

Social Studies Standards:

  • Government Strand: Civic Participation and Skills: Individuals have responsibility to take action toward the achievement of common goals in homes, schools and communities and are accountable for those actions.
  • Economics Strand: Scarcity: Wants are unlimited and resources are limited. Individuals make choices because they cannot have everything they want.
  • Economics Strand: Production and Consumption: People produce and consume goods and services in the community.

    Video Introduction and Vocabulary:

    waste, reduce, reuse, recycle, landfill, decomposer, compost

    26 Feb 2021

    Nature Exploration: Observation

    August-June

    This program engages students in a hands-on exploration of Ohio’s natural areas.  We will focus on making observations and applying them to learn about our environment. This is an ideal program for a first time visit to Greenacres or for students to become more comfortable in nature.

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • SWK Grade K-2: The world is discovered through exploration.
    • SWK Grade K-2: Exploration leads to observation. Observation leads to questions.
    • LS Grade 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.

    Poster and Vocabulary:

    observation, senses, compare, explore

    26 Feb 2021

    Maple Discovery (K- 3rd)

    Jan 21-Feb 25, 2026

    Maple sugaring is the tradition of making maple syrup from the sap gathered from maple trees in late winter. Many animals and people benefit by using the sap of maple trees. Plan to visit our sugar bush and our working evaporator at Greenacres as you use your senses to discover how maple sap is turned into syrup. (Jan 21-Feb 26, 2026)

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • SIPA Grade K-2: Employ simple equipment and tools to gather data and extend the senses.
    • LS Grade K: Living things have specific characteristics and traits.
    • LS Grade K: Living things have physical traits and behaviors, which influence their survival.
    • ESS Grade 1: Weather changes are long-term and short-term.
    • ESS Grade 1: The sun is the principal source of energy.
    • ESS Grade 1: Water on Earth is present in many forms.
    • LS Grade 1: Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.
    • LS Grade 1: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.
    • ESS Grade 2: Long and short term weather changes occur due to changes in energy.
    • LS Grade 2: Living things cause changes on earth.
    • LS Grade 3: Individuals of the same kind of organism differ in their inherited traits. These differences give some individuals an advantage in surviving and or reproducing.

    NGSS Standards:

    • K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
    • 1-ESS1-2. Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
    • 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

      Vocabulary:

      spiles, sap, gallons, sugar shack, sugar bush, evaporation, tap, sapsucker

      Video Introduction: CLICK HERE for Maple video with a Greenacres educator

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