August-June
The USDA uses zones to define certain growing areas. Our farm, located in zone 6b, faces challenges from weather, pests, and soil conditions. Join us as we learn and engage with the farmers as they tackle and solve daily challenges in our zone.
Ohio Science Standards:
- 7.LS.2 In any particular biome, the number, growth and survival of organisms and populations depend on biotic and abiotic factors.
NGSS Standards:
- MS-LS1-1. Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
- MS-LS1-2.Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function.
- MS-LS1-4 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
- MS-LS1-5 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
- MS-LS4-5. Gather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
Ohio Social Studies Standards:
- Geography – Spatial Thinking and Skills: Maps and other geographic representations can be used to trace the development of human settlement over time.
- Geography – Human Systems: Geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.
- Economics – Scarcity: The variability in the distribution of productive resources in the various regions of the world contributed to specialization, trade and interdependence.
Vocabulary:
zone, mapping, crop, seeds, cultivation, season, temperature, region, germination, heirloom