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01 Mar 2021

Arts Center Adventure

August-June

From its detailed Norman-style architecture to its 1940s interior renovations, collections of artworks, its enormous Aeolian organ, and hundred-year-old history, the Greenacres Arts Center and its nearby farm and woodland has many stories to tell. Come to explore the hidden treasures of the Arts Center!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.1.3PE Examine one or more cultural and historical artworks and respond to the visual, expressive features in the work.
  • MU.1.7RE Discuss audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.1.5 Places are distinctive because of their physical characteristics (landforms and bodies of water) and human characteristics (structures built by people).

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

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

Vocabulary:

Architecture, history, environment, compare/contrast, line, shape, organ, artwork, artifact

01 Mar 2021

Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Legends

August-June

Embark on an adventure at Greenacres Arts Center as we explore different fairy tales, folklore, and legends. This program explores the concepts of artistically telling and retelling a story through dramatic play and use of imagination. With each season change, there are new stories to be told through the halls and grounds of the Arts Center!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.2PR Generate ideas and images for artwork based on observation, memory, imagination and experience.
  • TH.K.1PR Imitate movements, voices and feelings of people, animals and objects through dramatic play.
  • MUS.K.4RE Identify and connect a concept shared between music and another curricular subject.

English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
  • ELA.RI.K.2 With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.B2. 4.a Discuss obstacles that can get in the way of reaching a goal and ideas for handling those obstacles
  • SEL.D1. 1.a Identify and engage in positive communication skills

 

    Vocabulary:

    Character, setting, theme, story, illustration, imagination, quest, obstacle

    01 Mar 2021

    Seasonal Inspirations (Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring)

    August-June

    Every season brings a different experience at Greenacres–inside and outside! Use observable seasonal changes to express yourself and your experiences through the Arts.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • VA.K.7PE Explore their environments and experiences for artmaking ideas.
    • MUS.K.4RE Identify and connect a concept shared between music and another curricular subject.

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • K.PS.1: Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.
    • NGSS: K-ESS2-1 Earth’s Systems: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • K.HISTORY.3. Heritage is reflected through the arts, customs, traditions, family celebrations and language.

    Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.E4. 3.a Identify examples of transitions and how they are a necessary and appropriate part of school and life.

     

      Vocabulary:

      summer, autumn, winter, spring, traditions, customs, observation, transitions, changes, inspiration

      28 Feb 2021

      Nature Exploration

      August – June

      This program engages students in a hands-on exploration of Ohio’s natural areas.  We’ll focus on building observation skills and applying them to learning about our environment.  This is an ideal program for a first time visit to Greenacres or for students to become more comfortable in nature.

      Ohio Science Standards:

      • SWK Grade K-2: The world is discovered through exploration.
      • SWK Grade K-2: Exploration leads to observation. Observation leads to questions.
      • SWK Grade K-2: Natural events happen today as they happened in the past.
      • SWK Grade K-2: Events happen in regular patterns and cycles in the natural world.
      • K.PS.1: Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.
      • K.PS.2: Some objects and materials can be made to vibrate and produce sound.
      • 3.LS.2: Individuals of the same kind of organism differ in their inherited traits. These differences give some individuals an advantage in surviving and/or reproducing.
      • 4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
      • 5.LS.1 Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem.
      • SWK Grade 3-5: Science is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations.
      • SWK Grade 3-5: Science assumes that objects and events occur in consistent patterns that are understandable through measurement and observation.
      • SIPA Grade 6-8: Apply knowledge of science content to real-world challenges.

      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.
      • 3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment
      • 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

      Ohio Social Studies Standards:

      •  SS Grade 5: Geography- Political, environmental, social and economic factors cause people, products and ideas to move from place to place in the Western Hemisphere and results in diversity.

        Vocabulary:

        observation, senses, living, nonliving, adaptations

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

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