Grade: 3rd

28 Jan 2025

Money at the Market

August-June

Come count your change, stay on budget, and understand how money works at the Market! Students will learn about financial literacy, budgeting, and decision-making as they make choices when shopping at our Farm Market.

Ohio 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
  • 3.MD.1 Work with time and money. 
  • Financial Literacy: 
    • 1. Choices can be made with your money. Choices include spending, saving and donating. Money can also be saved in financial institutions.
    • 4. Financial responsibility includes the development of a spending and savings plan (personal budget).
    • 5. An informed consumer makes decisions on purchases that may include a decision-making strategy to determine if purchases are within their budget. 
    • 6. Recognize that money is needed to purchase goods and services.

NGSS Standards:

  • 3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Economics – Production and Consumption: A consumer is a person whose wants are satisfied by using goods and services. A producer makes goods and/or provides services.
  • Economics – Markets: A market is where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
  • Economics – Financial Literacy: Making decisions involves weighing costs and benefits. 
  • Economics – Financial Literacy: A budget is a plan to help people make personal economic decisions for the present and future and to become more financially responsible.

Vocabulary:

Money, Dollar, Quarter, Dime, Penny, Budget, Price, Cost, Goods and Services, Farm Market, Add, Subtract, Decide, Financially Responsible

28 Jan 2025

Pasture to Product

August – June

You are what you eat! Our farmers care for our animals so that we can produce the highest quality of food. Young learners who visit the farm will deepen their knowledge of where their food comes from while middle and high school students will uncover the science required to produce the food in our farm market. Come explore how our farming practices can turn green pastures into great products, like meat and eggs!

Ohio Science Standards:

  • K.LS.1: Living things have specific characteristics and traits.
  • 1.LS.1 Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.
  • 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.
  • 4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
  • 5.LS.2: All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.
  • 6.LS.4 Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function. 
  • 7.LS.1 Energy flows and matter is transferred continuously from one organism to another and between organisms and their physical environments.
  • 8.LS.3 The characteristics of an organism are a result of inherited traits received from parent(s).
  • ENV.ER.4: Soil and land
  • ENV.GP.4: Sustainability
  • ENV.GP.7: Food production and availability

Indiana and NGSS:

  • 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.
  • 2-LS4-1 Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
  • 3-LS4-3 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
  • 4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
  • 5-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
  • 3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • MS-LS1-6 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
  • MS-LS4-5 Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
  • HS-ESS3-1 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity
  • HS-LS2-1 Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
  • HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • K: Economics – Production and Consumption: Goods are objects that can satisfy an individual’s wants. Services are actions that can satisfy an individual’s wants.
  • 1: Economics – Production and Consumption Goods:  People produce and consume goods and services in the community. 
  • 2: Economics – Production and Consumption Goods: Most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services.
  • 3: Geography – Places and Region: Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.
  • 4: Economics – Economic Decision Making and Skills:  Tables and charts organize data in a variety of formats to help individuals understand information and issues.
  • 5: Economics – Scarcity: The availability of productive resources (i.e., entrepreneurship, human resources, capital goods and natural resources) promotes specialization that could lead to trade
  • 6: Economics – Scarcity: The fundamental questions of economics include what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.
  • High School: Economics and Financial Literacy: Economists analyze multiple sources of data to predict trends, make inferences and arrive at conclusions 
  • High School: Fundamentals of Economics: Markets exist when consumers and producers interact. When supply or demand changes, market prices adjust. Those adjustments send signals and provide incentives to consumers and producers to change their own decisions. 
  • High School: Fundamentals of Economics: 6. Competition among sellers lowers costs and prices, and encourages producers to produce more of what consumers are willing and able to buy. Competition among buyers increases prices and allocates goods and services to those people who are willing and able to pay the most for them.

Vocabulary:

 Pasture, Product, Livestock, Farm Market, Mobile Chicken Coop, Herd, Flock, Egg (Yolk, White, Shell), Dissection, Ruminant, Bee Hive, Quality, Quantity, Management, Cost, Study

20 Jan 2025

Eco Village 3rd Grade

August-June

Over two days, back-to-back, let your students lead as they create their own village in our Greenacres forest habitat. This program is play-based, imagination-driven, and student led. Students will decide what they will contribute to the village, the laws, businesses and services, solve a community problem, design signs for their businesses, and cheers for their town, all while fostering a sense of community. 2 day program back-to-back, 3-4 hours per day.

Ohio Science Standards

  • 3.ESS.3: Some of Earth’s resources are limited.

NGSS Standards

  • 3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Ohio Social Studies Standards

  • Government Strand:  Civic Participation and Skills: Members of local communities have rights and responsibilities.
  • Government Strand:  Civic Participation and Skills:  Individuals make the community a better place by taking action to solve problems in a way that promotes the common good.
  • Government Strand:  Rules and Laws:  Laws are rules which apply to all people in a community and describe ways people are expected to behave. Laws promote order and security, provide public services and protect the rights of individuals in the local community
  • Government Strand:  Roles and Systems of Government:  Governments have authority to make and enforce laws
  • Government Strand:  Roles and Systems of Government: The structure of local governments may differ from one community to another
  • Economics Strand:  Scarcity:  Individuals must make decisions because of the scarcity of resources. Making a decision involves a trade-off
  • Economics Strand:  Production and Consumption:  A consumer is a person whose wants are satisfied by using goods and services. A producer makes goods and/or provides services
  • Economics Strand:  Markets:  A market is where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
  • Economics Strand:  Financial Literacy:  Making decisions involves weighing costs and benefits.

    Vocabulary:

    natural resources, supply and demand, consumer, producer, law, scarcity, community, currency, goods, services, choices, income, logo

    15 Feb 2024

    Life Cycles on the Farm

    August-June 

    All stages of life can be found around the farm. Join us as we learn more about how these living things, and what stage they are in, can contribute to the well-being of the farm.

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • 3.LS.1: Offspring resemble their parents and each other.

    Indiana and NGSS Standards:

    • 3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
    • 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
    Ohio Social Studies Standards:
    • Geography – Places and Regions: Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.

    Vocabulary:

    Life cycle, stages, living, offspring, parent, organism

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