Grade: 4th

01 Mar 2021

The Sounds Around Us

August-June

Sound is an important part of our everyday lives. Learn about how the art of sound enhances all other art forms and how most forms of media would fall short without it! Spend the day learning the ways of a foley artist as we engineer our own sound effects for film.

Standards:

  • SL.4.5 Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
  • VA.4.3PR Generate ideas and employ a variety of strategies to solve visual problems.
  • MU.4.1RE Explain how the elements and subject matter of music connect with disciplines outside the arts.

Vocabulary:

Foley, sound effect, timing, ambience, sound, engineer, creation, performance

01 Mar 2021

Art Appreciation Series: Theatre

August-June

The art of theatre incorporates skills that we all need: collaboration, listening, patience, bravery, compassion, and creativity. If your students enjoy being expressive, join us at the Arts Center for a chance to develop characters, use real scripts, and be exposed to the artful thought that goes into every aspect of a piece of theatre.

Standards:

  • SL.4.2 Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
  • TH.4.1PR Create the movement and voice of a character to convey the character’s decisions, actions and motivation. 
  • TH.4.2PR Manipulate voice, movement, space, design and physical objects to communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas in both improvised and scripted activities. 
  • TH.4.3RE Explain how a theatrical experience (e.g., live theatre production, film, video and media) impacts its audience.

Vocabulary:

analysis, protagonist, antagonist, given circumstances, Uta Hagen, lighting design, director

28 Feb 2021

Nature Exploration

August-June

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

Standards:

  • SIPA Grade 3-5: Observe and ask questions about the world that can be answered through scientific investigations.
  • SWK Grade 3-5: Science is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations.

Vocabulary:

observation, discovery, classification

28 Feb 2021

Fossils

August-June

Take a look at the history of Ohio’s land through its ancient ancestors.  Learn about a distant past where Trilobites ruled the warm waters of the Ordovician sea. Investigate how fossils are formed and what was left behind for us to find here at Greenacres.

Standards:

  • LS Grade 4: Fossils can be compared to one another and to present day organisms according to their similarities and differences.

Vocabulary:

erosion, deposition, sediment, Ordovician fossils, glacial erratic, limestone, shale

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