Standard: Science

27 Feb 2025

Nature Stories

August – June

Explore language arts in a new way as we make connections between the literary world and our natural world.  Join us for an enchanted adventure where we will bring fairytales, fables and fiction to life in the magical forests of Greenacres. Students will craft their own tall tale of the day’s adventures, before they ride off into the sunset.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • SWK Grade 3-5: Science is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations. 

English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.SL.3.2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
  • ELA.L.3.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. 

NGSS Standards:

  • 3-LS2-1. Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
  • 3-LS4-4. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

    Vocabulary:

    behavior, trait, adaptation, habitat, fiction, non-fiction, fable

    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

      Horses and Forces (8th Grade)

      August-June

      Horses motion and mass create forces that can be investigated. Students will explore different types of forces found in our equine center, such as Newton’s 1st and 2nd laws of motion, friction, and gravity.

      Ohio Science 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).
      • 8.PS.1 Objects can experience a force due to an external field such as magnetic, electrostatic or gravitational fields.
      • 8.PS.2 Forces can act to change the motion of objects.
        • 8.PS.2.a The motion of an object is always measured with respect to a reference point.
        • 8.PS.2.b Forces can be added. The new force on an object is the sum of all of the forces acting on the object.
        • 8.PS.2.c If there is a nonzero net force acting on an object, its speed and/or direction will change.
        • 8.PS.2.d Kinetic friction and drag are forces that act in a direction opposite the relative motion of objects.

      Vocabulary:

      mass, force, balanced, unbalanced, gravity, friction, newton’s laws of motion, stationary, non zero net force, drag, speed, direction, reference point, electrostatic

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