Grade: 3rd

11 Mar 2023

Arts in the Natural World Series: Paper

August-June

This program takes a sustainable spin on the papermaking process by creating paper out of recycled scrap paper that would otherwise end up in a landfill or be recycled and never seen again. This is a hands-on program that encourages students to learn new skills and make sustainable choices.

Standards:

  • ESS.3.3 Some of Earth’s resources are limited.
  • VA.3.2PR Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during artmaking processes.
  • VA.3.1PR Demonstrate skill in the use of art processes.

Vocabulary:

Recycling, sustainability, pulp, mould & deckle, slurry, texture, awl, bone folder

11 Mar 2023

Arts Appreciation Series: Visual Art

August-June

Art evokes reactions. Do you ever find yourself liking or disliking a work of art, but you struggle to articulate why? Students will don the hat of “art critic” in this immersive program as we seek to build our art appreciation toolkit.

Standards:

  • SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • VA.3.1CE Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.
  • VA.3.3RE Compare and contrast their opinions of a work of art with those of their peers.
    VA.3.1RE Examine and describe how art and design principles are used by artists to create visual effects. 

Vocabulary:

Painting, ceramics, Rookwood Pottery, art history, art criticism, gallery, curator, Feldman Method, description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation

01 Mar 2021

Farming with Nature

August-June 

Nature is amazing!  Come explore how farming can take ideas from the natural world and work with nature for a more productive farm.

Standards:

  • Ohio
    • 3.ESS.1: Earth’s nonliving resources have specific properties. 
    • 3.ESS.3: Some of Earth’s resources are limited. 
    • 3.ESS.2: Earth’s resources can be used for energy.
  • NGSS
    • 3-ESS2-2. Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. 
    • 3-LS4-4 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
    • 3-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity. Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

Vocabulary:

Nature, resources, energy, climate, weather, human impact

01 Mar 2021

Farm Adaptations

August-June 

Come discover how life around the farm has developed to be better suited to the environment it inhabits.  As farmers, we can use these adaptations as tools to help us be successful.  

Standards:

  • Ohio
    • 3.LS.3: Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.
  • NGSS
    • 3-LS2-1. Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
    • 3-LS3-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms
    • 3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing

Vocabulary:

Adaptation, life cycle, group survival, inherited, parent, offspring, trait, characteristic

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