Grade: 3rd

01 Mar 2021

Self-Expression Through Storytelling

August-June

Artists produce memorable works of art from their interpretations of the world around them. Experience how stories are shared through art, music, and theatre, and how you can use that knowledge to develop your own storytelling style.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.3.1PE Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.
  • TH.3.2PR Use voice, movement, and space to communicate a storyline and a character’s thoughts, feelings and ideas.
  • MUS.3.6RE Compare interpretations of the same piece of music as they occur through dance, drama and visual art.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.SL.3.2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A1. 1.b Identify a range of personal emotions.

Vocabulary:

expression, subject, theme, interpretation, confidence, pantomime

28 Feb 2021

Nature Exploration: Wildlife Tracking

August – June

This program engages students in a hands-on exploration of Ohio’s natural areas.  We will focus on animal tracks and signs while building observation skills and apply 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:

  • LS Grade 3: Individuals of the same kind differ in their traits and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing.
  • ESS Grade 3: Earth’s resources can be used for energy.

NGSS Standards:

  • 3-LS2-1. Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
  • 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
  • 3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment

    Video Introduction and Vocabulary:

    sign, scat, track, evidence, adaptation, survival, habitat

    28 Feb 2021

    Natural Resources

    August – June

    Humans have always relied on nature for their everyday needs. Join us as we learn all about the nonliving natural resources at Greenacres. We will observe the unique characteristics of resources such as water, air, rock, soil and energy to discover how they are used by living things.

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • ESS Grade 3: Earth’s nonliving resources have specific properties.
    • ESS Grade 3: Earth’s resources can be used for energy.
    • ESS Grade 3: Some of Earth’s resources are limited.

    NGSS Standards:

    • 3.ESS3.1. Science affects everyday life
    • 3-LS4-4. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.

    Social Studies Standards:

    • Geography Strand: Places and Regions: Daily life is influenced by the agriculture, industry and natural resources in different communities.
    • Geography Strand: Human Systems: Evidence of positive and negative human modification of the environment can be observed in the local community.
    • Economics Strand: Scarcity: Individuals must make decisions because of the scarcity of resources. Making a decision involves a trade-off.

     

      Poster and Vocabulary:

      living, nonliving, natural resource, observation, soil, water, air

      28 Feb 2021

      Maple Syrup

      January 29 – February 23

      Maple sugaring is the tradition of making maple syrup from sap gathered from maple trees in late winter/early spring.  Many animals (and people) are benefited by using the sap of the maple trees. Plan to visit our sugar bush at Greenacres as you experience with your senses how maple sap is turned into syrup. (January 29 – February 23, 2024)

      Ohio Science Standards

      • SWK Grade 3-5: Science is a way of knowing about the world around us based on evidence from experimentation and observations.
      • LS Grade 3: Individuals of the same kind differ in their traits and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing.

      NGSS Standards

      • 3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment

      Video Introduction and Vocabulary:

       spiles, sap, gallons, sugar shack, sugar bush, evaporation, tap, sapsucker