Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) for Third Grade
At Aunt Jan's porch, you will learn all the parts (wheel, pedal, belt, flyer, and bobbin) of the spinning wheel and how they work together to turn fiber into yarn. Learn about changes in size, weight, and color, and movement of things while noting those qualities that stay the same as Aunt Jan uses her spinning wheel to change fibers into yarn. See a copper pipe and ammonia change the color of fibers right before your eyes. compare the sizes, weights, and speeds of hand spindles and spinning wheels.
(GPS # S3CS4 - a)
When you visit Uncle Bob's, you will learn about many of the animals and plants that inhabit the Piedmont region of Georgia and which of those plants and animals are also found in the mountains, march/swamp, and coastal habitats of Georgia. As you explore the Nature Trail, Vine Tunnel, Herb, Sundial, and Water Gardens, you will easily be able to identify the features of many different kinds of plants that allow them to survive in the different regions of Georgia.
(GPS # S3L1 - a & b; QCC 15)
A trip to the Petting Zoo, Bee Barn, Bat Theater, Bat Q & A Board, and the Hay Ride around the farm affords observation of many different animals and the opportunity to identify features that allow them to live and thrive in the different regions of Georgia, such as goat hooves for climbing mountains, webbed feet that make it easy for the water fowl to live in the marsh/swamp regions. You will also learn how bees adapt their colonies to survive in the mountains where the winter temperatures can be fatal. Basic life processes are observed, such as gathering and digesting food, excreting waste products, reproducing (hopefully just the evidence of reproduction!), breathing and responding to the environment. You will see mom, dad, and baby mammals, birds, and insects and will be able to see various traits that are passed from parent to offspring. All stages of the life cycles of these animals are illustrated throughout the farm, from the Chicken House, to the Petting Zoo, to the Bee Barn.
(GPS# S3L1 - c & d: QCC 12, 14 & 15)
On your tour of the farm, you will learn about the effects of pollution on the habitats of the plants and animals and will be shown how Uncle Bob's helps protect the environment through recycling of feed bags and mulch to conserve water, use of drip irrigation to conserve water, recycling of animal wastes as natural fertilizer to replenish soil nutrients, and the rotation of crops to avoid soil depletion, erosion, and run off into adjacent property and bodies of water. (GPS # AS3L2 - a & b)
