Grade 2

Science

Earth and Space

Natural Resources

(rocks and soil)

Life Science

Fossils

Animals –Habitats, Classification

Frog/Butterfly Life Cycles

Heredity

Physical Science

States of Matter

Technology

Simple Machines-Force and Motion

Body parts as tools

Grade 2 Teacher Guide

Natural Resources / Rocks and Soil

Strand-Earth and Space Science

Resources

Scott Foresman Science Unit B Chapter 5: Lessons 1&2

Chapter 7: Lessons 1&2

Foss Kit Pebbles, Sand and Silt

Essential Questions

  1. What are the natural resources that make up our Earth?
  • Learning Standard 1
  • Chapter 5 - Lesson 1
  • Vocabulary – natural resource
  1. What are the properties of rocks?
  • Learning Standard 1
  • Chapter 5 - Lesson 2
  • Foss Kit
  • Vocabulary – boulder, sand, minerals
  1. What is soil made of?
  • Learning Standard 1
  • Chapter 5 - Lesson 2
  • Foss Kit
  • Vocabulary – erosion, weathering

Strand-Life Science

  1. How do fossils give us information about life long ago?
  • Learning Standard 1
  • Chapter 7- Lesson 1
  • Vocabulary – fossil, paleontologist
  1. How are fossils formed?
  • Learning Standard 1
  • Chapter 7- Lesson 2
  • Vocabulary – extinct

Assessment

Chapter 5 Test pp.31 - 32 in Gr. 2 Assessment Book

Chapter 7 Test pp.39 - 40 in Gr. 2 Assessment Book

Web sites

Rocks and the Rock Cycle

Soil / Underground Activities

Breaking News

Silt

Grade 2 Teacher Guide

Simple Machines

Strand-Technology and Engineering

Resources

Scott Foresman Science Unit C

Chapter 10: Lessons 1, 2 & 4

Grade 1 Leveled Readers (SF Reading Street Series)

Simple Machines at Work (on level)

Simple Machines in Compound Machines (advanced level)

The Inclined Plane (below level)

Grade 2 Science Leveled Readers:

Exploring Forces and Motion (on level)

Forces and Motion (below level)

Essential Questions

  1. What is work?
  • Learning Standard 2.1
  • Chapter 10 - Lessons 1 and 2
  • Vocabulary: motion, force, gravity, work
  1. How can simple machines help you do work?
  • Learning Standard 2.1
  • Chapter 10 - Lesson 4
  • United Streaming Video: “How to Make a Playground”
  • Vocabulary: simple machine
  1. How do human beings and animals use parts of body as tools?
  • Learning Standard 2.2
  • United Streaming Videos
  • Evan Moore Simple Machines Teacher Resource book

Assessment

Teacher Adapted Version of Chapter 10 Test pp. 65 - 68

in Gr. 2 Assessment Book

Web Sites

Simple Machines Scavenger Hunt

Gadget Anatomy

Move Our Principal

Simple Machines

How to Make a Playground/Simple Machines

Grade 2 Teacher Guide

States of Matter

Strand-Physical Science

Resources

Scott Foresman Science Unit C

Chapter 8: Lessons 1, 2, 3, & 4

Grade 1 Leveled Reader (SF Reading Street Series)

Matter by Kim Fields

Grade 2 Leveled Readers (Scott Foresman Science)

Properties of Matter (below level)

Matter (on level)

Essential Questions

  1. What is matter?

Learning Standard 1

  • Lesson 1
  • Vocabulary: mass, property
  1. What are the states of matter and their properties?

Learning Standard 2

  • Lesson 2
  • Vocabulary: states of matter, solid, liquid, gas
  1. How can matter be changed?

Learning Standard 2

  • Lesson 3
  • Vocabulary: mixture
  1. How can cooling and heating change matter?
  • Lesson 4

Assessment

Chapter 8 Test pp. 57- 60 in Gr. 2 Assessment Book
Web Sites

States of Matter

States of Matter

Grade 2 Teacher Guide

Animals

Strand-Life Science

Resources

Scott Foresman Science Unit A

Chapter 2: Lessons 1-7 and Chapter 4: Lesson 4

Grade 2 Scott Foresman Reading Street Anthology

Grade 2 Leveled Readers

Essential Questions

1. How are animals classified?

  • Chapter 2, Building Background pp.34-35
  • Learning Standard 2
  • Vocabulary: mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian

2. What are the characteristics of each of the six classifications?

  • Learning Standard 2

3. What are the animals with backbones?

  • Learning Standard 2
  • Chapter 2 – Lesson 1

4. What are the animals without backbones?

  • Learning Standard 2
  • Chapter 2 – Lesson 7

5. How are animals adapted to survive in their habitat?

  • Learning Standards 7 & 8
  • Lessons 3, 4, 5, 6
  • SF Reading Street Series: Unit 2 pp. 276 – 279
  • Vocabulary: camouflage, gills, insect

6. What is the life cycle of a frog?

  • Learning Standard 3
  • SF Reading Street Series “Frogs” by Gail Gibbons
  • Leveled Readers:

A Frog’s Life

Frog Friends

  • Vocabulary: life cycle, nymph

7. What is the life cycle of a butterfly?

  • Learning Standard 3
  • Butterfly Kits
  • Scott Foresman Reading Anthology, Guided Inquiry pp. 122 - 123
  • Scott Foresman Reading Anthology, Measuring Time pp. 124 - 125

8. How are young animals like their parents?

  • Learning Standard 4
  • Chapter 4: Lesson 4

Assessment

Chapter 2 Test pp. 5 - 8 in Gr. 2 Assessment Book

Chapter 4 Test pp. 13 -16 in Gr. 2 Assessment Book

Web Sites

Animal Adaptation

Butterfly Website

Classifying Critters

Additional Assessments

Lesson Checkpoints for each chapter listed in Science Flip Book

Test Prep for each chapter located in Science Flip Book

Writing Prompts/Rubrics in Assessment Book

Informal teacher observations during hands-on investigations

Class discussion

Scaffolded questions for each chapter located in the Teacher Edition

Diagnostic Checks for assessment and adjustment located in the Teacher Edition

Teacher developed differentiated activities

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