Grade: Multi Grade

28 Feb 2022

Seasonal Food on the Farm

August-June

Every season is a different experience when you are on the farm!  Come explore what the current season has to offer for life here.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • K.ESS.1: Weather changes are long-term and short-term.
  • 1.LS.2: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.
  • 2.ESS.3: Long- and short-term weather changes occur due to changes in energy.
  • 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.

NGSS Standards:

  • K-PS3-1. Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface
  • 2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
  • 3-ESS2-1. Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
  • MS-ESS2-6. Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.
  • 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 – 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
  • Economics – Scarcity: There are not enough resources to produce all the goods and services that people desire
  • Economics – Production and Consumption: Production is the act of combining natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship to make goods and services. Consumption is the use of goods and services.

Vocabulary:

farm, weather, season, fall, winter, summer, spring, temperature

25 Feb 2022

The Artist’s Tool Box

August-June

Just as a scientist applies the scientific method to conduct experiments, artists utilize the 5 step creative process: preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation, and verification. Work your way through the creative process and how to develop your own skills through the arts at Greenacres. We will create a work of art based on a theme or topic, which could be customized to content relevant to your classroom or your school community. 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:

  • TH.6.5CE Compare and contrast the creative processes of other art forms (e.g., dance, music, visual and media arts) to those of drama and theatre.
  • MU.6.6RE Explain and apply skills developed in music (e.g., critical thinking, collaboration) to other disciplines.
  • VA.7.2PR Manipulate materials, tools and techno

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.Gov.7 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.

 

    Vocabulary:

    scientific method, creative process, preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation, verification

    01 Mar 2021

    Sustainable Agriculture (Best Suited for Highschool)

    August-June 

    On this journey, we’ll answer the question:  what exactly is sustainable agriculture?  Then, you lead the way as we go on a fictional quest to build your own sustainable farm!

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • ENV.ER.1: Energy resources
    • ENV.ER.4: Soil and land
    • ENV.GP.4: Sustainability
    • ENV.GP.7: Food production and availability

    NGSS Standards:

    • 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:

    • Industrialization and Progressivism: The rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society.
    • Social Transformations in the United States: Political debates focused on the extent of the role of government in the economy, environmental protection, social welfare and national security.
    • Achievements and Crises: Advances in technology, communication and transportation improved lives, but also had negative consequences.
    • Globalization: Environmental concerns, impacted by population growth and heightened by international competition for the world’s energy supplies, have resulted in a new environmental consciousness and a movement for the sustainability of the world’s resources.
    • Fundamentals of Economics: People cannot have all the goods and services they want and, as a result, must choose some things and give up others
    • Sustainability: Decisions about human activities made by individuals and societies have implications for both current and future.
    • Sustainability: Sustainability issues are interpreted and treated differently by people viewing them from various political, economic and cultural perspectives.
    • Technology: The development and use of technology influences economic, political, ethical and social issues.
    • Technology: Technologies inevitably involve trade-offs between costs and benefits. Decisions about the use of products and systems can result in intended and unintended consequences.
    • Environment and Society: Human modifications of the physical environment in one place often lead to changes in other places (e.g., construction of a dam provides downstream flood control, construction of a city by-pass reduces commercial activity in the city center, implementation of dry farming techniques in a region leads to new transportation links and hubs).
    • 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).
    • Environment and Society: Physical processes influence the formation and distribution of renewable, nonrenewable, and flow resources (e.g., tectonic activity plays a role in the formation and location of fossil fuels, erosion plays a role in the formation of sedimentary rocks, rainfall patterns affect regional drainage patterns).

    Vocabulary:

    sustainability, agriculture, three pillars of sustainability, soil properties, conservation, ecology, eco monitoring, research, animal welfare

    01 Mar 2021

    Life Cycles on the Farm

    August-June 

    What makes a fruit a fruit? Why do farmers select the livestock and plants they grow? Join us for a look around the farm and see for yourself! 

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • K.LS.1: Living things have specific characteristics and traits.
    • 1.LS.2: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.
    • 2.LS.2: All organisms alive today result from their ancestors, some of which may be extinct. Not all kinds of organisms that lived in the past are represented by living organisms today.
    • 3.LS.1: Offspring resemble their parents and each other.
    • 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.

    NGSS Standards:

    • K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
    • 1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
    • 2-LS4-1. Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
    • 3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
    • 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-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment
    • MS-LS1-4. Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
    Ohio Social Studies Standards (K-8):
    • 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:

    Life cycle, stages, living, offspring, parent, organism

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