Grade: 4th

01 Mar 2021

Cincinnati’s Stories

August-June

Greenacres Arts Center shares  Cincinnati’s rich and exciting history each season with a different local story. Join us for the day and walk away with pride for Cincinnati’s history, arts, and culture! This program’s content changes in fall, winter, and spring, so you can visit one, two, or three times.

  • Fall: The history of The Camargo Hunt and Julius Fleischmann Jr., who built and lived in what is now Greenacres Arts Center. 
  • Winter: Rookwood Pottery and Greenacres Arts Center’s connection to it.
  • Spring: Louis and Louise Dieterle Nippert, who founded Greenacres and left positive impacts all over the Queen City.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.4.3PE Demonstrate leadership when working alone, with partners, and in small groups to improvise and solve movement problems.
  • MUS.4.4PE Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others while demonstrating various proper techniques (Fall).
  • MUS.4.7RE Explore music created by Ohio artists and determine how their works were influenced by their Ohio roots (Spring).
  • VA.4.1CO Explore artists and works of art that impact the history and culture of Ohio.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.4.8 Many technological innovations that originated in Ohio benefited the United States.
  • SS.4.10 The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio (Winter, Spring).

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.C2.1.b Identify reasons for making positive contributions to the school and community.

Vocabulary:

history, context, impact, environment, community, values

28 Feb 2021

Nature Exploration: Discovery

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.

Ohio Science 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.

NGSS Standards:

  • 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. 

Vocabulary:

observation, discovery, classification

Introduction: CLICK HERE for a poster from a Greenacres educator

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 and other ancient species ruled the waters of the Ordovician period.

Ohio Science Standards:

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

NGSS Standards:

  • 4-ESS1-1. Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
  • 4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Vocabulary:

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

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

28 Feb 2021

Erosion and Weathering

August-June

In Ohio, our rivers and streams tell a story. Changes in the landscape are caused by weathering of rock and soil, and by transportation and deposition of sediments. Students will explore the process of erosion and look for signs of weathering here at Greenacres.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • ESS Grade 4: Earth’s surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.
  • ESS Grade 4: The surface of Earth changes due to weathering.
  • ESS Grade 4: The surface of Earth changes due to erosion and deposition.

NGSS Standards:

  • 4-ESS1-1. Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
  • 4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Vocabulary:

erosion, weathering, deposition, sediment, landform

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

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