Standard: Science

04 Feb 2025

Sing High, Sing Low: Musical Opposites

August-June

Life is full of opposites, like happy or sad, warm or cold, and big or small. Join us for an adventure as we explore opposites through music! Go fast and slow as we follow tempo, get loud and quiet as we explore dynamics, feel long and short sounds as we make rhythms, and hear highs and lows as we experience pitch.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MUS.K.3RE Recognize same and different (fast/slow, loud/quiet, high/low, long/short).
  • MUS.K.1CR Experience a wide variety of vocal and instrumental sounds.
  • MUS.K.1PE Track steady beat and rhythm (using graphic, iconic, or traditional notation).

Ohio English Language Arts:

  • ELA.K.5.b Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their antonyms (opposites).
  • ELA.K.5.d Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A2.2.a Explore opportunities to develop skills and talents.

Vocabulary:

opposites, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, steady beat   

04 Feb 2025

Exploring the Colors of the Rainbow

August-June

Explore the color wheel’s primary and secondary colors with the Greenacres Arts Educators! We will discover how colors can inspire us, and how colors can connect to and reflect our emotions.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.K.3PE Communicate an idea using the elements of art.
  • DN.K.1RE Describe how movements can express feelings.
  • MUS.K.1CO Experience how music communicates feelings, moods, images, and meaning.
  • TH.K.1PE Imitate movements, voices and feelings of people, animals and objects through dramatic play.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • K.PS.1 Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A1. 1.a Identify basic personal emotions.
  • SEL.C1. 1.a Identify facial and body cues representing feelings in others.

Vocabulary:

color, primary, secondary, emotions   

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

Animal Senses and Handling

August-June

Animals use their senses to guide their actions: to find food, to escape from danger, and to interact with the world. Visit our farm to learn about the livestock we care for, their senses, and the handling practices our farmers use to ensure humane animal practices.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • SL. 4.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • 3-5.ST.1.b. Identify positive and negative impacts one’s use of personal technology and technology systems (e.g., agriculture, transportation, energy generation, water treatment) can have on one’s community
  • 3-5.ST.3.c. Identify and discuss how the use of technology affects self and others in various ways.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • 4-LS1-2. Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

 Vocabulary:

 animal senses, handling, humane animal practices, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch,
 flight zone, self-preservation, reaction, feed, handling facility, pasture, monitoring, management

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