Grade: Multi Grade

08 Feb 2025

Sing High, Sing Low: Musical Opposites

August-June

Life is full of opposites, like happy or sad, warm or cold, and big or small. Join us for an adventure as we explore opposites through music! Go fast and slow as we follow tempo, get loud and quiet as we explore dynamics, feel long and short sounds as we make rhythms, and hear highs and lows as we experience pitch. This program is ideal for students ages 5-9. All multi-grade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Vocabulary:

opposites, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, steady beat   

08 Feb 2025

Exploring the Colors of the Rainbow

August-June

Explore the color wheel’s primary and secondary colors with the Greenacres Arts Educators! We will discover how colors can inspire us, and how colors can connect to and reflect our emotions. This program is ideal for students ages 5-9. All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Vocabulary:

color, primary, secondary, emotions   

28 Jan 2025

Sustainable Agriculture (Grades 4+)

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:

  • 6.LS.4 Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
  • ENV.ER.1: Energy resources
  • ENV.ER.4: Soil and land
  • ENV.GP.4: Sustainability
  • ENV.GP.7: Food production and availability

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • 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.
  • MS-LS2-2. Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. 
  • 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-8):

  • Geography – Human Systems: Human systems represent the settlement and structures created by people on Earth’s surface. The growth, distribution and movements of people are driving forces behind human and physical events. Geographers study patterns in cultures and the changes that result from human processes, migrations and the diffusion of new cultural traits.
  • 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 – 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:

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

28 Jan 2025

Goods and Services on the Farm

August-June

Visit our pastures, growing spaces, and Farm Market to learn about goods and services on the farm. Students will take on various roles to create their own market from product development, to marketing, to cashier, and more! Students will have the opportunity to buy and sell from each other’s markets.

Ohio Standards:

  • 2.MD.8 Solve problems with money
  • SL.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations about grade 2 topics and texts with diverse partners in small and larger groups. 
  • Financial Literacy:
    • 1. Choices can be made with your money. Choices include spending, saving and donating. Money can also be saved in financial institutions.
    • 2. 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.
    • 3. People may receive money as gifts, allowance or income. People earn income by working.

NGSS Standards:

  • K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Economics – Scarcity – Resources can be used in various ways. 
  • Economics – Production and Consumption: Most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services.
  • Economics – Markets: People use money to buy and sell goods and services.
  • Economics – Financial Literacy: People earn income by working.

Vocabulary:

 farm store, produce,  harvest, root, fruit, leaf, meat, in season, dairy, checkout, ingredients, goods, services, apiary, beekeeper, beeswax, royal jelly, pollen, pasture, rumen, ruminant, digestion, products

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