Grade: Multi Grade

11 Feb 2024

Meditative Arts

August-June

Using tools and practices centered around creativity, experience the calming effects of art, music, and mindful movement. This program focuses on the “whole student”–mind, body, and creative spirit–as we empower students with self-regulation strategies. All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Vocabulary:

meditation, mindfulness, reflection, relaxation, creativity, mental health, regulate, stretch

11 Feb 2024

Greenacres Arts Center Presents: Live Performance Series – only available specific dates

Greenacres is proud to bring the community together to support local Performers and Arts Organizations. Our Greenacres Arts Center Presents Series is your opportunity to experience live Music or Theatre performances in an intimate, educational concert setting. Have the opportunity to ask questions of the performers and delve deeper into the intricacies of the performance. The performance is always followed by hands-on learning activities in small groups facilitated by Greenacres Arts Educators. This family-based program requires tickets for each performance date. Please reach out to us for more information or to be added to our mailing list!

Vocabulary:

Live performance, audience, actor, musician, instrument, evaluation

13 Dec 2023

Step into Soil

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:

  • 4.ESS.3: The surface of Earth changes due to erosion and deposition.
  • 4.PS.1: When objects break into smaller pieces, dissolve, or change state, the total amount of matter is conserved.
  • 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:

  • 2-ESS2-1. Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.
  • 4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
  • 4-ESS2-2. Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features
  • MS-LS2-5. Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • MS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
  • HS-ESS2-2. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.

Ohio Social Studies Standards (K-8):

  • Geography – Spatial Thinking and Skills: Spatial thinking examines the relationships among people, places and environments by mapping and graphing geographic data. Geographic data are compiled, organized, stored and made visible using traditional and geospatial technologies. Students need to be able to access, read, interpret and create maps and other geographic representations as tools of analysis.
  • Geography – Places and Regions: A place is a location having distinctive characteristics, which give it meaning and character and distinguish it from other locations. A region is an area with one or more common characteristics, which give it a measure of homogeneity and make it different from surrounding areas. Regions and places are human constructs.

      Vocabulary:

      soil health, properties, erosion, deposition, matter, minerals, nutrient, weathering

      13 Dec 2023

      Inquiry on the Farm

      December – February

       Scientific inquiry is a way of doing science that includes making observations, forming hypotheses, designing studies, collecting data, and drawing conclusions. While spending time in the greenhouse and other growing spaces, even in winter, students will design and conduct a simple investigation to learn about farming through the inquiry process.

      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.

      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. 
      • 4-PS3-2.Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
      • 5-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
      • 5-PS3-1:Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
      • 5-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
      • 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-PS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer.  

      Social Studies Standards (K-8):

      • Geography – Spatial Thinking and Skills: Spatial thinking examines the relationships among people, places and environments by mapping and graphing geographic data. Geographic data are compiled, organized, stored and made visible using traditional and geospatial technologies. Students need to be able to access, read, interpret and create maps and other geographic representations as tools of analysis.
      • Government – Civic Participation and Skills: Civic participation embraces the ideal that an individual actively engages in his or her community, state or nation for the common good. Students need to practice effective communication skills including negotiation, compromise and collaboration. Skills in accessing and analyzing information are essential for citizens in a democracy.
      • Economics – Economic Decision Making and Skills: Effective economic decision making requires students to be able to reason logically about key economic issues that affect their lives as consumers, producers, savers, investors and citizens. Economic decision-making and skills engage students in the practice of analyzing costs and benefits, collecting and organizing economic evidence and proposing alternatives to economic problems.

      Vocabulary: Observation, Investigation, Comparative Question, Data, Analysis

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