Grade: High School

08 Feb 2025

Speaking Up!

August-June

For ages, people have explored how to use their voice to confidently say what they mean. We will empower students to present themselves in front of peers through the light-hearted lens of improv comedy. We will also gather inspiration from visual artists who used their works to speak their minds.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.HSP.1PE Manipulate vocal qualities, posture, movement, and language to express variety in characters during improvisation and dramatic situations.
  • TH.HSP.2PE Demonstrate the collaborative skills necessary for producing a scene with a unified vision.
  • VA.HSP.1CO Understand how works of art reflect diverse communities, viewpoints, and perspectives.

English Language Arts Standards:

  • SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.C1.3.d Demonstrate empathy through compassion in self and encourage in others.

    Vocabulary:

    listening, support, confidence, inner-champion, zines

    08 Feb 2025

    Mindfulness and the Arts

    August-June

    Using tools and practices centered around creativity and mindfulness, experience the calming effects of art, music, and mindful movement. This program supports the “love and belonging” and “esteem” stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and focuses on Whole Student Education. We will empower students by sharing self-regulation strategies that can support them  when the strain of friendships, school, or work become overwhelming.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • DN.HSP.4PE Recognizes the mind-body connection in dance technique and performance.
    • MUS.HSP.4CO Describe the purpose and value of music in various cultures and settings.
    • VA.HSP.2CR Explore multiple solutions to artistic problems.

    Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.HS.D2.3.d Develop techniques to empower, encourage and affirm oneself and others, maintaining positive, healthy relationships.
    • SEL.HS.B1.1.d Utilize self-management strategies to regulate thoughts, emotions and behaviors within the context of the situation.

      Vocabulary:

      mindfulness, reflection, mental health, regulate

      08 Feb 2025

      Art Walk and Talk

      August-June

      Visit Greenacres Arts Center for an experience all about an exclusive rotating art exhibition by local artists who gathered inspiration from their time at the Greenacres Artist Weekend. Students will practice visual analysis, art criticism, and strategies for interpreting artworks. Schedule permitting, this program could include time with artists from the exhibition

      Fine Arts Standards:

      • VA.HSP.3CR Identify visual literacy strategies as a means to communicate concepts.
      • VA.HSP.3RE Utilize art criticism methods when responding to works of art.
      • VA.HSP.1CO Understand how works of art reflect diverse communities, viewpoints, and perspectives.
      • VA.HSP.2CO Recognize contributions of the visual arts in everyday life.

      English Language Arts Standards:

      • ELA.SL.9-10.1/SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10/11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

      *Standards may be customized to fit your classroom’s needs.

        Vocabulary:

        gallery, curation, description, visual analysis, interpretation, opinion

        28 Jan 2025

        Careers on the Farm: Livestock

        August-June

        Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a farmer? What jobs are needed on a farm to have a successful livestock operation? Visit Greenacres to experience how our farm hands care for animals, see agricultural research in action, and learn more about how we get our products into the hands of customers! Together we will explore various career pathways related to agriculture and livestock to help you consider your own pathway!

        Agricultural and Environmental Systems Content Standards:

        • 1.1.1. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed in careers. 
        • 1.10.1. Identify how the roles of sales, advertising, and public relations contribute to a company’s brand. 
        • 3.1.11. Draw conclusions based on observations and data analyses, recognizing that experimental results must be open to the scrutiny of others. 
        • 5.15.11. Identify methods to minimize animal stress and safety (physiology, psychological, and nutritional).

        Ohio Standards:

        • B.DI.1: Biodiversity 
        • B.DI.2: Ecosystems 
        • ENV.ER.4: Soil and land
        • Financial Literacy
          • 2. Financial responsibility involves lifelong decision-making strategies which include consideration of alternatives and consequences.
          • 3. Competencies (knowledge and skills), commitment (motivation and enthusiasm), competition (globalization and automation), training, work ethic, abilities and attitude are all factors impacting one’s earning potential and employability.

        Indiana and NGSS Standards:

        • HS-LS2-6. Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.

        Ohio Social Studies Standards:

        • Economics and Financial Literacy – Working and Earning: Income is determined by many factors including individual skills and abilities, work ethic and market conditions 
        • Geography – Environment and Society: Human societies use a variety of strategies to adapt to the opportunities and constraints presented by the physical environment (e.g., farming in flood plains and terraced farming, building hydroelectric plants by waterfalls and constructing hydroelectric dams, using solar panels as heat source and using extra insulation to retain heat).

        Vocabulary:

        farm hand, agricultural research, farm market management, marketing, holistic management, pasture, livestock, production

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