Standard: Math

08 Feb 2025

Arts Center Adventure: The Case of the Missing Artifact

August-June

Something is amiss at Greenacres Arts Center! Learn about the hundred-year-old history of the Arts Center, its hidden treasures, and its original owner, Julius Fleischmann Jr. Put on your detective cap as we find clues, solve riddles, and work together to track down a “missing” artifact! Students will explore some of the Arts Center’s assets, including its Norman-style architecture, its enormous Aeolian Pipe Organ, and collection of artworks.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.4.3CO Demonstrate empathetic reactions in response to works of art.

Ohio English Language Arts:

  • ELA.W.4.8 Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information and provide a list of sources.

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 4.MD.4 Display and interpret data in graphs (picture graphs, bar graphs, and line plots) to solve problems using numbers and operations for this grade.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.4.2 Primary and secondary sources can be used to create historical narratives.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A4.2.b Demonstrate confidence in the ability to complete a range of tasks and address challenges while expressing positive attitudes towards self.

Vocabulary:

teamwork, history, architecture, artwork, artifact, evidence, clue  

05 Feb 2025

Patterns Around Us

August-June

Patterns are a part of our everyday lives and help us make sense of the world. Join us at Greenacres Arts Center to search for and create our own patterns through the visual and performing arts. Parts of this program change with the seasons, so there is always something new to explore!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.2.1CR Explore and experiment with basic locomotor and non-locomotor movement patterns using changes in time, space, body shape, and movement quality to construct and express personal meaning.
  • MUS.2.1CR Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic phrases using known patterns and a variety of sound sources.
  • TH.2.1PE Create movements and voices of characters to communicate feelings and ideas in dramatic or theatrical contexts (e.g., skits, puppetry, pantomime, improvisation and storytelling).
  • VA.2.3PE Produce works that intentionally incorporate the elements of art.

    Math  Standards:

    • G.2.1 Recognize and identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, and hexagons based on the number of sides or vertices. Recognize and identify cubes, rectangular prisms, cones, and cylinders.
    • MP.2.7 Look for and make use of structure.

    Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.A4.2.a Demonstrate confidence in the ability to complete simple tasks and challenges independently, while expressing positive attitudes towards self.

      Vocabulary:

      seasons, shape, pattern, repetition, rhythm, phrases

      28 Jan 2025

      Careers on the Farm: Livestock

      August-June

      Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a farmer? What jobs are needed on a farm to have a successful livestock operation? Visit Greenacres to experience how our farm hands care for animals, see agricultural research in action, and learn more about how we get our products into the hands of customers! Together we will explore various career pathways related to agriculture and livestock to help you consider your own pathway!

      Agricultural and Environmental Systems Content Standards:

      • 1.1.1. Identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed in careers. 
      • 1.10.1. Identify how the roles of sales, advertising, and public relations contribute to a company’s brand. 
      • 3.1.11. Draw conclusions based on observations and data analyses, recognizing that experimental results must be open to the scrutiny of others. 
      • 5.15.11. Identify methods to minimize animal stress and safety (physiology, psychological, and nutritional).

      Ohio Standards:

      • B.DI.1: Biodiversity 
      • B.DI.2: Ecosystems 
      • ENV.ER.4: Soil and land
      • Financial Literacy
        • 2. Financial responsibility involves lifelong decision-making strategies which include consideration of alternatives and consequences.
        • 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:

      farm hand, agricultural research, farm market management, marketing, holistic management, pasture, livestock, production

      28 Jan 2025

      Money at the Market

      August-June

      Come count your change, stay on budget, and understand how money works at the Market! Students will learn about financial literacy, budgeting, and decision-making as they make choices when shopping at our Farm Market.

      Ohio Standards:

      • SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building
      • 3.MD.1 Work with time and money. 
      • Financial Literacy: 
        • 1. Choices can be made with your money. Choices include spending, saving and donating. Money can also be saved in financial institutions.
        • 4. Financial responsibility includes the development of a spending and savings plan (personal budget).
        • 5. An informed consumer makes decisions on purchases that may include a decision-making strategy to determine if purchases are within their budget. 
        • 6. Recognize that money is needed to purchase goods and services.

      NGSS Standards:

      • 3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost

      Ohio Social Studies Standards:

      • Economics – Production and Consumption: A consumer is a person whose wants are satisfied by using goods and services. A producer makes goods and/or provides services.
      • Economics – Markets: A market is where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
      • Economics – Financial Literacy: Making decisions involves weighing costs and benefits. 
      • Economics – Financial Literacy: A budget is a plan to help people make personal economic decisions for the present and future and to become more financially responsible.

      Vocabulary:

      Money, Dollar, Quarter, Dime, Penny, Budget, Price, Cost, Goods and Services, Farm Market, Add, Subtract, Decide, Financially Responsible

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