Standard: Science

15 Jan 2025

All about Birds

August-June

Birds are perhaps the easiest wildlife to observe. Birds have many unique adaptations, which allows them to be found in many different habitats. We’ll use our observation skills to find birds of all shapes, sizes, and colors as we hike around Greenacres.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • LS Grade 1: Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.
  • LS Grade 1: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.

NGSS Standards:

  • 1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
  • 1-LS3-1: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents

Vocabulary: Observation, Habitat, Evidence, Adaptation, Trait, Behavior

Video Introduction: CLICK HERE for a bird video with a Greenacres educator

15 Jan 2025

Nature Escape Room

August 2025-June 2026

Students will work together as a team to sharpen their observation skills and solve escape room style puzzles all while engaging in hands-on nature exploration. In this outdoor simulation, we need the help of your students to protect the biodiversity of our land and save Greenacres from the dreaded Deforester!  (at Spooky Hollow Farm site only)

Ohio Science Standards:

  • SIPA Grade 6-8: Apply knowledge of science content to real-world challenges.
  • SWK Grade 6-8: Science is a continual process and the body of scientific knowledge continues to grow and change.

NGSS Standards:

  • MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment
  • MS-PS1-2. Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.

Vocabulary: Biodiversity, awareness, observation, neutralize

15 Feb 2024

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:

  • 2.ESS.3: Long- and short-term weather changes occur due to changes in energy.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • 2-LS4-1. Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
  • 2-LS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
  • 2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
  • 2-ESS2-1. Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • History – Historical Thinking and Skills: Time can be shown graphically on calendars and timelines.
  • History – Heritage: Science and technology have changed daily life.
  • Geography – Human Systems: Human activities alter the physical environment, both positively and negatively.

Vocabulary:

Seasons, weather, energy, Earth, wind, water, erosion, deposition

15 Feb 2024

Life Cycles on the Farm

August-June 

All stages of life can be found around the farm. Join us as we learn more about how these living things, and what stage they are in, can contribute to the well-being of the farm.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • 3.LS.1: Offspring resemble their parents and each other.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • 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.
  • 3-LS3-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms
Ohio Social Studies Standards:
  • Geography – Places and Regions: Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.

Vocabulary:

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

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