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27 Jan 2023

Annual Celebration Concert (September 3 & 4, 2025)

September 4 & 5, 2024

Greenacres excitedly welcomes the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, and Cincinnati Ballet each fall for a spectacular performance chronicling miraculous talents all on one stage. John Morris Russel, beloved conductor of the Cincinnati Pops, serves as our guide throughout a live art experience that compares to none. Limited dates and seats are available.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.4.1RE Describe the relationship between music and movement in creating meaning for dances performed or observed.
  • DN.4.2RE Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.
  • MUS.4.1RE Discuss the lives and times of composers from various historical periods and cultures.
  • MUS.4.2CO Attend and reflect on music performances demonstrating appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of music performed.

Core Standards:

  • Core standards vary based on each year’s theme.

Vocabulary:

composer, conductor, orchestra, opera, ballet, audience, applause

28 Feb 2022

Seasonal Food on the Farm

August-June

Every season is a different experience when you are on the farm!  Come explore what the current season has to offer for life here.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • K.ESS.1: Weather changes are long-term and short-term.
  • 1.LS.2: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.
  • 2.ESS.3: Long- and short-term weather changes occur due to changes in energy.
  • 3.LS.3: Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.
  • 4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.

Indiana and NGSS Standards:

  • K-PS3-1. Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface
  • 2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
  • 3-ESS2-1. Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
  • MS-ESS2-6. Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.
  • HS-ESS2-2. Analyze geoscience data to make the claim that one change to Earth’s surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth systems.

Ohio Social Studies Standards (K-8):

  • Geography – Places and Regions: A place is a location having distinctive characteristics, which give it meaning and character and distinguish it from other locations. A region is an area with one or more common characteristics, which give it a measure of homogeneity and make it different from surrounding areas. Regions and places are human constructs
  • Economics – Scarcity: There are not enough resources to produce all the goods and services that people desire
  • 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:

farm, weather, season, fall, winter, summer, spring, temperature

25 Feb 2022

The Artist’s Tool Box

August-June

Utilize an exclusive rotating exhibition at Greenacres Arts Center to create one-of-a-kind pieces through experimentation with the 5-step creative process: preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation, and verification (similar to the scientific method). This program will feature artworks made by local artists who were inspired by Greenacres. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.6.3CO Link observations, life experiences, and imagination for personal and creative expression.
  • VA.6.2CR Brainstorm and experiment independently with ideas.
  • DN.7.2CR Create movement studies using a variety of stimuli (music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience).
  • MUS.6.4RE Create interpretations of music via dance, drama, and visual art using appropriate vocabulary.
  • TH.6.5CE Compare and contrast the creative processes of other art forms (e.g., dance, music, visual and media arts) to those of drama and theatre.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.7.7 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.

 

    Vocabulary:

    process, experimentation, inspiration, exhibition

    07 Feb 2022

    Maple Inquiry (4th -8th)

    (Jan 21 to Feb 25, 2026)

    Maple sugaring is the tradition of making maple syrup from the sap gathered from maple trees in late winter. Plan to make observations, ask questions, collect data using scientific tools, and analyze the data you collect. Explore our authentic sugar bush and sugar shack as science comes to life through this hands-on, guided inquiry program. (Jan 21-Feb 26, 2026)

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • SIPA Grade 3-5: Observe and ask questions about the world that can be answered through scientific investigations.
    • SWK Grade 3-5: Science is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations.
    • SWK Grade 6-8: Science is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations.
    • SWK Grade 6-8: Science is a continual process and the body of scientific knowledge continues to grow and change.
    • LS Grade 4: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.
    • LS Grade 5: Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem. All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.
    • LS Grade 7: Energy flows and matter is transferred continuously from one organism to another and between organisms and their physical environments.

    NGSS Standards:

    • 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.
    • 5-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
    • 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment
    • MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
    • 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.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • SS Grade 4: Geography- The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio.
    • SS Grade 5: History- Early Indian civilizations (Maya, Inca, Aztec, Mississippian) existed in the Western Hemisphere prior to the arrival of Europeans. These civilizations had developed unique governments, social structures, religions, technologies, and agricultural practices.
    • SS Grade 6: Economics- When selecting items to buy, individuals can weigh costs and benefits and compare the price and quality of available goods and services.

    Vocabulary: sugar bush, sugar shack, sap, diameter, density, xylem, phloem, glucose, hypothesis, observation, investigation, comparative question, data, analysis

    Video Introduction: CLICK HERE for Maple video with a Greenacres educator

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