Standard: Math

12 Feb 2025

Careers on the Farm: Working Together

August-June

Join us on the farm to learn more about agricultural careers.  Students will explore garden and equine job skills as well as discover the power of team building in a collaborative work environment. 

Agricultural and Environmental Systems Content Standards:

  • 1.1.1. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed in careers.
  • 1.1.2. Identify the scope of career opportunities and the requirements for education, training, certification, licensure, and experience.
  • 1.1.6. Explain the importance of work ethic, accountability, and responsibility and demonstrate associated behaviors in fulfilling personal, community, and workplace roles.
  • 1.1.7. Apply problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to work-related issues when making decisions and formulating solutions.
  • 1.1.8. Identify the correlation between emotions, behavior, and appearance and manage those to establish and maintain professionalism.
  • 1.1.9. Give and receive constructive feedback to improve work habits.

Animal Science, Outcome 2.3 Care and Management:

  • 2.3.1. Identify species-specific terminology (gender, age, reproductive status).
  • 2.3.3. Determine the biotic and abiotic factors (e.g. air, ventilation) that impact the animal’s environment.
  • 2.3.8. Evaluate and perform animal care procedures aligned with industry standards throughout the life of the animal.
  • 2.3.9. Monitor and evaluate the quality of an animal’s habitat and implement corrective methods as needed.

Ohio Standards:

  • Financial Literacy.
    •  3. 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.

    Vocabulary:

    careers, accountability, responsibility, training, certification, licensure, biotic and abiotic factors, globalization, automation, employability

    11 Feb 2025

    Careers on the Farm: Garden

    August-June

    Have you ever wondered what it takes to run a successful garden?  What skills or experience are needed to become a farmer?  Explore with us to learn what farmers do day-to-day to keep the flowers and vegetables growing in our production garden.  Students will gain insight into this career to explore their own options for the future!    

    Agricultural and Environmental Systems Content Standards:

    • 1.1.1. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed in careers.
    • 6.1.4. Identify and describe factors (e.g., climate, soil texture, mineralogy, soil organisms, drainage co-efficient, land use, vegetation types, management practices) affecting organic matter and its function in soil quality.

    Ohio Standards:

    • Financial Literacy
      • 3. 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.

    Indiana and NGSS Standards:

    • HS-LS2-6. Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • Economics and Financial Literacy – Working and Earning: Income is determined by many factors including individual skills and abilities, work ethic and market conditions
    • Geography – 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).

    Vocabulary:

    Production Garden, Garden Manager, Garden Field Coordinator, Garden Apprentice, Harvest, Ley Rotation, Greenhouse, Agriculture   n

    08 Feb 2025

    Linear Equations (8th Grade)

    August-June

    From running to grazing, activities at the stables happen at different rates. Students will explore relationships among horses and their management practices to create linear equations and graphs.

    Ohio Math Standards:

    • 8.SP.1 Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. Describe patterns such as clustering; outliers; positive, negative, or no association; and linear association and nonlinear association.
    • 8.SP.2 Understand that straight lines are widely used to model relationships between two quantitative variables. For scatter plots that suggest a linear association, informally fit a straight line, and informally assess the model fit by judging the closeness of the data points to the line.
    • 8.EE.5 Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways.
    • 8.EE.8 Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations graphically.
      • a. Understand that the solution to a pair of linear equations in two variables corresponds to the point(s) of intersection of their graphs, because the point(s) of intersection satisfy both equations simultaneously.
      • b. Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to pairs of linear equations in two variables. For example, given coordinates for two pairs of points, determine whether the line through the first pair of points intersects the line through the second pair.

    Vocabulary:

    coordinate pairs, linear, equation, x-axis, y-axis, proportional, model, intersection, variable, scatter plot, outlier, line of best fit, bivariate, clustering, non-linear

    08 Feb 2025

    Pythagoras Horseplay (8th Grade)

    August-June

    There are hidden triangles in our everyday world.  Students will practice applying Pythagoras theorem in equine sports, care, and management to understand how it helps Equestrians be more successful.

    Ohio Math Standards:

    • 8.G.8 Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system.
    • 8.G.7 Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.
    • 8.LS.3 The characteristics of an organism are a result of inherited traits received from parent(s).

    Vocabulary:

    coordinate plane, Pythagorean Theorem, hypotenuse, base, equation, variable, trait, inheritance, characteristics, 2D, 3D, triangle

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