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20 Jan 2025

Eco Village 4th Grade

August-June

 Let your students lead as they create their own village next to the stream at Greenacres. This program is play-based, imagination-driven, and student led. Using the resources at the stream and fossils as our currency, students will decide what they will contribute to the village, the laws, businesses and services all while fostering a sense of community. 3-4 hour program.

Ohio Science Standards

  • Fossils can be compared to one another and to present-day organisms according to their similarities and differences.

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.
  • 3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Ohio Social Studies Standards

  • Civic Participation and Skills- Civic participation in a democratic society requires individuals to make informed and reasoned decisions by accessing, evaluating and using information effectively to engage in compromise.
  • Rules and Laws- Laws can protect rights, provide benefits and assign responsibilities.
  • Production and Consumption- Entrepreneurs in Ohio and the United States organize productive resources and take risks to make a profit and compete with other producers.

    Vocabulary:

    natural resources, capital goods, human resources, supply and demand, profit, consumer, producer, law, community, currency, choices

    20 Jan 2025

    Eco Village 3rd Grade

    August-June

    Over two days, back-to-back, let your students lead as they create their own village in our Greenacres forest habitat. This program is play-based, imagination-driven, and student led. Students will decide what they will contribute to the village, the laws, businesses and services, solve a community problem, design signs for their businesses, and cheers for their town, all while fostering a sense of community. 2 day program back-to-back, 3-4 hours per day.

    Ohio Science Standards

    • 3.ESS.3: Some of Earth’s resources are limited.

    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.
    • 3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards

    • Government Strand:  Civic Participation and Skills: Members of local communities have rights and responsibilities.
    • Government Strand:  Civic Participation and Skills:  Individuals make the community a better place by taking action to solve problems in a way that promotes the common good.
    • Government Strand:  Rules and Laws:  Laws are rules which apply to all people in a community and describe ways people are expected to behave. Laws promote order and security, provide public services and protect the rights of individuals in the local community
    • Government Strand:  Roles and Systems of Government:  Governments have authority to make and enforce laws
    • Government Strand:  Roles and Systems of Government: The structure of local governments may differ from one community to another
    • Economics Strand:  Scarcity:  Individuals must make decisions because of the scarcity of resources. Making a decision involves a trade-off
    • Economics Strand:  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 Strand:  Markets:  A market is where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
    • Economics Strand:  Financial Literacy:  Making decisions involves weighing costs and benefits.

      Vocabulary:

      natural resources, supply and demand, consumer, producer, law, scarcity, community, currency, goods, services, choices, income, logo

      15 Feb 2024

      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:

      • 2.ESS.3: Long- and short-term weather changes occur due to changes in energy.

      Indiana and NGSS Standards:

      • 2-LS4-1. Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
      • 2-LS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
      • 2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
      • 2-ESS2-1. Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

      Ohio Social Studies Standards:

      • History – Historical Thinking and Skills: Time can be shown graphically on calendars and timelines.
      • History – Heritage: Science and technology have changed daily life.
      • Geography – Human Systems: Human activities alter the physical environment, both positively and negatively.

      Vocabulary:

      Seasons, weather, energy, Earth, wind, water, erosion, deposition

      15 Feb 2024

      Life Cycles on the Farm

      August-June 

      All stages of life can be found around the farm. Join us as we learn more about how these living things, and what stage they are in, can contribute to the well-being of the farm.

      Ohio Science Standards:

      • 3.LS.1: Offspring resemble their parents and each other.

      Indiana and NGSS Standards:

      • 3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
      • 3-LS3-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms
      Ohio Social Studies Standards:
      • Geography – Places and Regions: Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.

      Vocabulary:

      Life cycle, stages, living, offspring, parent, organism

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