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04 Feb 2025

Arts in the Natural World: Seasonal Inspirations

August-June

Every season brings a different experience at Greenacres – inside and outside! Use observable seasonal changes in fall, winter, and spring to express yourself and your experiences through the arts. This program’s content changes in fall, winter, and spring, so you can visit one, two, or three times! Programs in the Arts in the Natural World series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.1.2CR Explore structured improvisations and movement phrases within a central theme.
  • MUS.1.3CO Connect concepts shared between music, other art forms, and other subject areas.
  • TH.1.2RE React to character actions and choices, both personal and peer, following a guided drama experience.
  • VA.1.1RE Describe the meaning of symbols and images in works of art.

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.

Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.K.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:

seasons, observations, changes, inspiration, traditions

04 Feb 2025

The Artist in You

August-June

Join us at the Arts Center to bring your students’ creativity to life! Through the visual and performing arts, students can uncover their strengths in creating and collaborating alongside peers. This program seeks to empower young students to acknowledge themselves as creative.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.1.2CR Explore structured improvisations and movement phrases within a central theme.
  • MUS.1.1CO Explore how music communicates feelings, moods, images, and meaning.
  • TH.1.2PE Create and tell stories based on personal experience (orally, written, by drawing a picture or pictures).
  • VA.1.2PE Engage with materials and tools to develop artmaking skills.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.1.9 Collaboration requires group members to respect the rights and opinions of others.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

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

Vocabulary:

artist, create, perform, improvisation, collaboration

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

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

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