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01 Mar 2021

Jobs on the Farm

August – June

What’s it like to be a farmer?  We will see what it takes to keep the farm running smoothly.  Whether that is tending to our pastures or cultivating our crops, there is always something to do on the farm.   

Ohio Science Standards:

  • K.LS.1: Living things have specific characteristics and traits.
  • K.LS.2: Living things have physical traits and behaviors, which influence their survival.

NGSS Standards:

  • K-ESS2-2. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
  • 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.
  • K-ESS3-3. Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • Geography – Human Systems: Humans depend on and impact the physical environment in order to supply food, clothing and shelter.
  • Government – Civil Participation and Skills: Individuals share responsibilities and take action toward the achievement of common goals in homes, schools and communities.
  • Economics – Scarcity: Individuals have many wants and make decisions to satisfy those wants. These decisions impact others.
  • Economics – Production and Consumption: Goods are objects that can satisfy an individual’s wants. Services are actions that can satisfy individual’s wants.

Vocabulary:

Farmer, characteristic, trait, cultivate, crop, relationship

01 Mar 2021

Arts Appreciation Series: Art Criticism

April-November

Creating and observing art is part of the human experience. Do you ever find yourself liking or disliking a work of art, but you struggle to articulate why? Have you ever thought about how our experiences in the 21st century affect the way we perceive art? Students will don the hat of “art critic” in this immersive program as we build our art appreciation toolkit. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.7.3RE Interpret selected artworks and synthesize their interpretations with the interpretations of others.

Ohio English Language Standards:

  • SL.6.1/SL.7.1/SL.8.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 /7/8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • 7.SS.Geography.13 Geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A1. 2.c Explain that emotions may vary based on the situation, including people and places

Vocabulary:

painting, ceramics, Rookwood Pottery, art history, art criticism, gallery, curator, Feldman Method, description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation

01 Mar 2021

Arts in the Natural World Series: Installation Art

August-June

Challenge the traditional boundaries of what you think art should look like and where it should be viewed in this program at Greenacres. Students will transform a space at the Arts Center using non-traditional materials to envelop viewers into their world as an artist. Programs in the Arts in the Natural World Series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.6.2PR Experiment with a variety of techniques and working methods when creating an original work of art.
  • VA.7.5PR Create a work of art in collaboration with others to address a social or cultural issue.
  • VA.8.3PR Use critical thinking and visual literacy to communicate a specific idea.

Ohio Engineering Standards:

  • 6-8.DT.3.a Collaborate to solve a problem as an interdisciplinary team modeling different roles and functions. 

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A1. 2.c Explain that emotions may vary based on the situation, including people and places

Vocabulary:

Installation Art, site-specific, context, large scale, ephemeral, three-dimensional, collaboration, artist statement, Bernheim Woods, AllWood

01 Mar 2021

Self Expression Through the Arts

August-June

Spend the day with us to unlock your students’ creativity and artistic spirit! Discover different artistic mediums of expression in music, theatre, and visual arts. This program is all about trying new things!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MU.5.3RE Describe how the process of learning in music connects to learning in other arts and other subject areas.
  • VA.5.5PE Focus attention on selected artworks to identify and pose questions about aesthetic qualities (e.g., sensory, organizational, emotional) in the works.
  • TH.5.1CE Investigate how past and present drama, theater and storytelling forms of various cultural groups reflect their beliefs and traditions.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.G.5.10 The Western Hemisphere is culturally diverse (e.g., language, food, religion, art, music) due to the influences and interactions of a variety of world cultures.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.B1.1.b Demonstrate strategies to express a range of emotions within the expectations of the setting

Vocabulary:

self-expression, color, culture, performance, aesthetic

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