Grade: 6th

01 Mar 2021

Digging Deeper with Soil

August-June 

All life depends on soil. Come learn how this important building block impacts life around Greenacres, and how we create healthier soil through farming practices. We will also experience how soil scientists study the properties of soil.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • 6.ESS.5 Rocks, mineral and soils have common and practical uses.
  • 6.ESS.4 Soil is unconsolidated material that contains nutrient matter and weathered rock.

NGSS Standards:

  • MS-ESS2-4 Earth’s Systems. Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.
  • MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
  • MS-LS1-6 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. 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-LS2-3 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
  • MS-LS2-5 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Economics – Markets: The interaction of supply and demand, influenced by competition, helps to determine price in a market. This interaction also determines the quantities of outputs produced and the quantities of productive resources (entrepreneurship, human resources, natural resources and capital) used.

Vocabulary:

 soil, soil properties, organic matter, air, water, microbes, soil tools, compost

01 Mar 2021

The Elements of Storytelling

August-June

Let your imagination run wild in the storybook-like setting of the Arts Center as we explore the building, gardens, and trails. Students will delve into the elements of writing and combine these skills to create their very own three-dimensional tale. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.6.1PE Describe how art and design elements and principles are used in artworks to produce certain visual effects and create meaning.
  • VA.8.4PR Present personal artworks that show competence in the use of art elements to create meanings and effects.

Ohio English Language Standards:

  • 8.W.7.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. 

Vocabulary:

character, setting, plot, conflict, resolution, theme, color, line, shape, space, emphasis, movement

01 Mar 2021

Arts Appreciation Series: Art Criticism

April-November

Creating and observing art is part of the human experience. Do you ever find yourself liking or disliking a work of art, but you struggle to articulate why? Have you ever thought about how our experiences in the 21st century affect the way we perceive art? Students will don the hat of “art critic” in this immersive program as we build our art appreciation toolkit. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.7.3RE Interpret selected artworks and synthesize their interpretations with the interpretations of others.

Ohio English Language Standards:

  • SL.6.1/SL.7.1/SL.8.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 /7/8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • 7.SS.Geography.13 Geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A1. 2.c Explain that emotions may vary based on the situation, including people and places

Vocabulary:

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

01 Mar 2021

Arts in the Natural World Series: Installation Art

August-June

Challenge the traditional boundaries of what you think art should look like and where it should be viewed in this program at Greenacres. Students will transform a space at the Arts Center using non-traditional materials to envelop viewers into their world as an artist. Programs in the Arts in the Natural World Series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.6.2PR Experiment with a variety of techniques and working methods when creating an original work of art.
  • VA.7.5PR Create a work of art in collaboration with others to address a social or cultural issue.
  • VA.8.3PR Use critical thinking and visual literacy to communicate a specific idea.

Ohio Engineering Standards:

  • 6-8.DT.3.a Collaborate to solve a problem as an interdisciplinary team modeling different roles and functions. 

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A1. 2.c Explain that emotions may vary based on the situation, including people and places

Vocabulary:

Installation Art, site-specific, context, large scale, ephemeral, three-dimensional, collaboration, artist statement, Bernheim Woods, AllWood

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