Standard: Science

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

28 Jan 2025

Sustainable Agriculture (Middle School)

August-June 

Join us as we investigate the meaning of Sustainable Agriculture!  Learn how we can establish productive farmland for future generations by utilizing our natural world to guide our farming methods. 

Ohio Science Standards:

  • 7.LS.1 Energy flows and matter is transferred continuously from one organism to another and between organisms and their physical environments. 
  • 7.LS.2 In any particular biome, the number, growth and survival of organisms and populations depend on biotic and abiotic factors.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • MS-ESS2-1 Earth’s Systems. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
  • MS-ESS3-3 Earth and Human Activity. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
  • MS-ESS3-4 Earth and Human Activity. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
  • MS-LS2-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem
  • MS-LS2-5 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • History – First Global Age: The Columbian exchange (i.e., the exchange of fauna, flora and pathogens) among previously unconnected parts of the world reshaped societies in ways still evident today.
  • Geography – Human Systems: Improvements in transportation, communication and technology have facilitated cultural diffusion among peoples around the world.
  • Government – Civic Participation and Skills: Analyzing individual and group perspectives is essential to understanding historic and contemporary issues. Opportunities for civic engagement exist for students to connect real-world issues and events to classroom learning.
  • Economics – Economic Decision Making and Skills: Individuals, governments and businesses must analyze costs and benefits when making economic decisions. A cost- benefit analysis consists of determining the potential costs and benefits of an action and then balancing the costs against the benefits.

Vocabulary:

Farming, sustainability, sustainable agriculture, methods, structure, function, soil, energy resources, biodiversity, ecosystem, cycle, organism

28 Jan 2025

Sustainable Agriculture (Grades 4+)

August-June 

 Join us as we investigate the meaning of Sustainable Agriculture!  Learn how we can establish productive farmland for future generations by utilizing our natural world to guide our farming methods.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • 6.LS.4 Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
  • ENV.ER.1: Energy resources
  • ENV.ER.4: Soil and land
  • ENV.GP.4: Sustainability
  • ENV.GP.7: Food production and availability

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • MS-LS2-5. Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • MS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
  • MS-LS2-2. Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems. 
  • HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.

Ohio Social Studies Standards (K-8):

  • Geography – Human Systems: Human systems represent the settlement and structures created by people on Earth’s surface. The growth, distribution and movements of people are driving forces behind human and physical events. Geographers study patterns in cultures and the changes that result from human processes, migrations and the diffusion of new cultural traits.
  • Government – Civic Participation and Skills: Civic participation embraces the ideal that an individual actively engages in his or her community, state or nation for the common good. Students need to practice effective communication skills including negotiation, compromise and collaboration. Skills in accessing and analyzing information are essential for citizens in a democracy.
  • Economics – Production and Consumption: Production is the act of combining natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship to make goods and services. Consumption is the use of goods and services.

Vocabulary:

Farming, sustainable agriculture, methods, structure, function, soil, energy resources, biodiversity, ecosystem, cycle, organism

28 Jan 2025

Goods and Services on the Farm

August-June

Visit our pastures, growing spaces, and Farm Market to learn about goods and services on the farm. Students will take on various roles to create their own market from product development, to marketing, to cashier, and more! Students will have the opportunity to buy and sell from each other’s markets.

Ohio Standards:

  • 2.MD.8 Solve problems with money
  • SL.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations about grade 2 topics and texts with diverse partners in small and larger groups. 
  • Financial Literacy:
    • 1. Choices can be made with your money. Choices include spending, saving and donating. Money can also be saved in financial institutions.
    • 2. 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.
    • 3. People may receive money as gifts, allowance or income. People earn income by working.

NGSS Standards:

  • K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Economics – Scarcity – Resources can be used in various ways. 
  • Economics – Production and Consumption: Most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services.
  • Economics – Markets: People use money to buy and sell goods and services.
  • Economics – Financial Literacy: People earn income by working.

Vocabulary:

 farm store, produce,  harvest, root, fruit, leaf, meat, in season, dairy, checkout, ingredients, goods, services, apiary, beekeeper, beeswax, royal jelly, pollen, pasture, rumen, ruminant, digestion, products

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