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08 Feb 2025

Calculating Horse Care: Polygons & Volume (6th Grade)

August-June

Math is used every day in horse care and management.  Students will use horses, the tools equestrians use to care for them, and the places horses live and work to explore polygons, volume, and equations.

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 6.EE.2 Write, read and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers
  • 6.G.1 Find the area of polygons and apply these techniques in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems
  • 6.G.2 Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths of the prism. Apply the formulas V = l⋅w⋅h and V = B⋅h to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

Vocabulary:

Polygon, volume, equation, base, height, area, triangle, rectangle, square,      hexagon, cube, 2D, 3D

08 Feb 2025

The Power of Place

August-June

Challenge the traditional boundaries of what you think art should be and where it should be experienced. Join us at Greenacres Arts Center to use innovative and unconventional art making practices to be creative and to expand our perspectives about the arts’ purpose in our lives. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.8.2CO Examine and discuss ways various external contexts impact dance and articulate how meaning in dance is communicated and understood.
  • MUS.7.1CO Analyze the meaning and expression of variety in live or recorded music performances.
  • VA.6.2PR Experiment with a variety of techniques and working methods when creating an original work of art.
  • TH.7.3PE Construct and produce the technical components for a script using art or media to present design ideas.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

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

    Vocabulary:

    site-specific, context, collaborate, proscenium, round, chance music, installation

    28 Jan 2025

    Sustainable Agriculture (Middle School)

    August-June 

    Join us as we investigate the meaning of Sustainable Agriculture!  Learn how we can establish productive farmland for future generations by utilizing our natural world to guide our farming methods. 

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • 7.LS.1 Energy flows and matter is transferred continuously from one organism to another and between organisms and their physical environments. 
    • 7.LS.2 In any particular biome, the number, growth and survival of organisms and populations depend on biotic and abiotic factors.

    Indiana and NGSS Standards:

    • MS-ESS2-1 Earth’s Systems. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
    • MS-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
    • MS-ESS3-4 Earth and Human Activity. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
    • MS-LS2-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem
    • MS-LS2-5 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • History – First Global Age: The Columbian exchange (i.e., the exchange of fauna, flora and pathogens) among previously unconnected parts of the world reshaped societies in ways still evident today.
    • Geography – Human Systems: Improvements in transportation, communication and technology have facilitated cultural diffusion among peoples around the world.
    • Government – Civic Participation and Skills: Analyzing individual and group perspectives is essential to understanding historic and contemporary issues. Opportunities for civic engagement exist for students to connect real-world issues and events to classroom learning.
    • Economics – Economic Decision Making and Skills: Individuals, governments and businesses must analyze costs and benefits when making economic decisions. A cost- benefit analysis consists of determining the potential costs and benefits of an action and then balancing the costs against the benefits.

    Vocabulary:

    Farming, sustainability, sustainable agriculture, methods, structure, function, soil, energy resources, biodiversity, ecosystem, cycle, organism

    28 Jan 2025

    Pasture to Product

    August – June

    You are what you eat! Our farmers care for our animals so that we can produce the highest quality of food. Young learners who visit the farm will deepen their knowledge of where their food comes from while middle and high school students will uncover the science required to produce the food in our farm market. Come explore how our farming practices can turn green pastures into great products, like meat and eggs!

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • K.LS.1: Living things have specific characteristics and traits.
    • 1.LS.1 Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.
    • 2.LS.1: Living things cause changes on Earth.
    • 3.LS.3: Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.
    • 4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
    • 5.LS.2: All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.
    • 6.LS.4 Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function. 
    • 7.LS.1 Energy flows and matter is transferred continuously from one organism to another and between organisms and their physical environments.
    • 8.LS.3 The characteristics of an organism are a result of inherited traits received from parent(s).
    • ENV.ER.4: Soil and land
    • ENV.GP.4: Sustainability
    • ENV.GP.7: Food production and availability

    Indiana and NGSS:

    • K-ESS3-1 Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
    • 2-LS4-1 Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
    • 3-LS4-3 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
    • 4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
    • 5-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
    • 3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
    • MS-LS1-6 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-LS4-5 Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
    • HS-ESS3-1 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity
    • HS-LS2-1 Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
    • HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • K: Economics – Production and Consumption: Goods are objects that can satisfy an individual’s wants. Services are actions that can satisfy an individual’s wants.
    • 1: Economics – Production and Consumption Goods:  People produce and consume goods and services in the community. 
    • 2: Economics – Production and Consumption Goods: Most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services.
    • 3: Geography – Places and Region: Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.
    • 4: Economics – Economic Decision Making and Skills:  Tables and charts organize data in a variety of formats to help individuals understand information and issues.
    • 5: Economics – Scarcity: The availability of productive resources (i.e., entrepreneurship, human resources, capital goods and natural resources) promotes specialization that could lead to trade
    • 6: Economics – Scarcity: The fundamental questions of economics include what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.
    • High School: Economics and Financial Literacy: Economists analyze multiple sources of data to predict trends, make inferences and arrive at conclusions 
    • High School: Fundamentals of Economics: Markets exist when consumers and producers interact. When supply or demand changes, market prices adjust. Those adjustments send signals and provide incentives to consumers and producers to change their own decisions. 
    • High School: Fundamentals of Economics: 6. Competition among sellers lowers costs and prices, and encourages producers to produce more of what consumers are willing and able to buy. Competition among buyers increases prices and allocates goods and services to those people who are willing and able to pay the most for them.

    Vocabulary:

     Pasture, Product, Livestock, Farm Market, Mobile Chicken Coop, Herd, Flock, Egg (Yolk, White, Shell), Dissection, Ruminant, Bee Hive, Quality, Quantity, Management, Cost, Study

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