Grade: 7th

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

28 Feb 2021

Stream Geology

August-June

This program focuses on the power and force of running water as it shapes our dynamic Earth. Students will investigate the physical features of a stream, collect and analyze stream flow data, and discover how human activities have impacted stream ecosystems.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • ESS Grade 8: A combination of constructive and destructive geologic processes formed Earth’s surface.
  • ESS Grade 8: Evidence of the dynamic changes of Earth’s surface through time is found in the geologic record.

NGSS Standards:

  • MS-ESS2-2. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales
  • MS-ESS2-4. 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-ESS2-3. Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
  • MS-ESS3-1. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes
  • MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS Grade 8: Geography – Modern and historical maps and other geographic tools are used to analyze how historic events are shaped by geography.

Vocabulary:

erosion, deposition, rate of flow, water cycle, ordovician fossils

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