Standard: Science

01 Mar 2021

Energy on the Farm

August-June 

See how our farmers, livestock, and plants use energy and other resources to grow and create food for our community. Through an interactive game, students will work in groups to see the best energy-efficient practices to keep crops alive during a frost, provide water during a drought, and care for the animals on your farm.  

Ohio Science Standards:

  •  4.PS.2: Energy can be transferred from one location to another or can be transformed from one form to another.

NGSS Standards:

  • 4-PS3-2 Energy. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
  • 4-PS3-4 Energy. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Geography – Places and Regions: The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio

Vocabulary:

Energy, heat energy, solar energy, energy transfer, energy loss, greenhouse, compost

01 Mar 2021

Farm to Market: Dried Herbs

August-June 

Join us as we follow the journey of food, from the field to the consumer.  Help us figure out how we can make this season’s harvest profitable! 

Ohio Science Standards:

  •  4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • 3-5-ETS1-1 Engineering Design. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • 4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
  • 4-ESS3-2. Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Geography – Places and Regions: The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio
  • Geography – Human Systems: People have modified the environment throughout history resulting in both positive and negative consequences in Ohio and the United States
  • Economics – Production and Consumption: Entrepreneurs in Ohio and the United States organize productive resources and take risks to make a profit and compete with other producers.

Ohio Math Standards:

  • 4.MD.2 Solve real-world problems involving money, time, and metric measurement.

Vocabulary:

farm, product, economics, market, profit, consumer, production, supply and demand

01 Mar 2021

Farm Adaptations

August-June 

Come discover how life around the farm has developed to be better suited to the environment it inhabits.  As farmers, we can use these adaptations as tools to help us be successful.  

Ohio Science Standards:

  • 3.LS.3: Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • 3-LS2-1. Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
  • 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
  • 3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing
  • 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • History – Historical Thinking and Skills: Events in local history can be shown on timelines organized by years, decades and centuries.
  • History – Heritage: Local communities change overtime.
  • Geography – Places and Regions: Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.
  • Geography – Humans Systems: Evidence of positive and negative human modification of the environment can be observed in the local community.
  • Geography – Humans Systems: Systems of transportation and communication move people, products and ideas from place to place.

Vocabulary:

Adaptation, life cycle, group survival, inherited, parent, offspring, trait, characteristic

01 Mar 2021

Life Cycles on the Farm

August-June 

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

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.

Indiana and 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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