Grade: Middle School (6th - 8th)

  • Home
  • Middle School (6th - 8th)
25 Feb 2022

Entertainment and Expression

August-June

Art and music have an important and long-lasting relationship with entertainment. Join us as we explore the many ways that art and music cross disciplines. This program places a strong emphasis on the art of sound and its role in the film industry. This program is easily adaptable to suit 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.6.2PE Discover and articulate how the media forms of the day use art and images to communicate messages and meaning
  • MU.6.6CE Describe roles and skills musicians assume in various cultures and settings.
  • MU.6.4RE Describe ways that music relates to other art forms using appropriate terminology.

Ohio English Language Standards:

  • SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on othersā€™ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Vocabulary:

Foley Artist, improvise, entertainment, experiment, storyboard, film score

07 Feb 2022

Maple Inquiry (4th -8th)

(Jan 21 to Feb 25, 2026)

Maple sugaring is the tradition of making maple syrup from the sap gathered from maple trees in late winter. Plan to make observations, ask questions, collect data using scientific tools, and analyze the data you collect. Explore our authentic sugar bush and sugar shack as science comes to life through this hands-on, guided inquiry program. (Jan 21-Feb 26, 2026)

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.
  • SWK Grade 6-8: Science is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations.
  • SWK Grade 6-8: Science is a continual process and the body of scientific knowledge continues to grow and change.
  • LS Grade 4: Changes in an organismā€™s environment are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.
  • LS Grade 5: Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem. All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.
  • LS Grade 7: Energy flows and matter is transferred continuously from one organism to another and between organisms and their physical environments.

NGSS Standards:

  • 3-LS4-3 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.
  • 5-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earthā€™s resources and environment.
  • 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment
  • MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
  • 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.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS Grade 4: Geography- The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio.
  • SS Grade 5: History- Early Indian civilizations (Maya, Inca, Aztec, Mississippian) existed in the Western Hemisphere prior to the arrival of Europeans. These civilizations had developed unique governments, social structures, religions, technologies, and agricultural practices.
  • SS Grade 6: Economics- When selecting items to buy, individuals can weigh costs and benefits and compare the price and quality of available goods and services.

Vocabulary: sugar bush, sugar shack, sap, diameter, density, xylem, phloem, glucose, hypothesis, observation, investigation, comparative question, data, analysis

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

01 Mar 2021

Farm to Market: Mrs. Nippert’s Marinara

August-JuneĀ 

Join us as we follow the journey of food, from the field to the consumer.Ā  Help us figure out how we can make this seasonā€™s harvest profitable!Ā 

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 6.EE.2 Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers.
  • 6.EE.9 Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that change in relationship to one another; write an equation to express one quantity, thought of as the dependent variable, in terms of the other quantity, thought of as the independent variable. Analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables using graphs and tables, and relate these to the equation.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • 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.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Economics – Scarcity: The fundamental questions of economics include what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.
  • 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.
  • Economics – Financial Literacy: When selecting items to buy, individuals can weigh costs and benefits and compare the price and quality of available goods and services.

Vocabulary:

farm, product, economics, market, profit, consumer, production, supply and demand

01 Mar 2021

Digging Deeper with Soil

August-JuneĀ 

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.

Indiana and 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:

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

Ā© Greenacres Foundation. All Right Reserved 2023.