Second Grade Science

General Information

Type	Activity	Description
	Pacing and Scope & Sequence	Suffolk Public Schools Pacing and Scope & Sequence Documents
	Virginia Department of Ed	Standards and SOL-based Instructional Resources
	SOL Enhanced	Specific activites by SOL created by DOE
	Connecting Books to SOL's	A database of over 2,000 works of literature and their connection to the Virginia Standards of Learning
	NASA eClips	Short, relevant educational video segments
	Harcourt Activities	Correlated by textbook chapter

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2.6

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2.8

Review

2.1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of scientific reasoning, logic, and the nature of science by planning and conducting investigations

Type	Activity	Description
	Motor Mouth 2.1	Review cards to play Password or Pyramid type review game
	Scientific Investigation Foldable	Six flip foldable students can reuse at Science Circus as a reference of scientific investigation terms and the scientific method
	Scientific Investigation Review	Review SI processes and test your knowledge
	Science Activities	Need an experiment - try one of these activities and apply the scientific process
	Characteristics of Materials	Test materials to see if they are waterproof, flexible, transparent, or strong and take a quiz
	Grouping and changing	Decide what material the items are made from
	Peep Research	Using marshmellow peeps to investigate concepts

2.2  The student will investigate and understand that natural and artificial magnets have certain characteristics and attract specific types of metals.

Type	Activity	Description
	Magnets and Springs	Move the magnet with the spring to pick up items
	Motor Mouth 2.2	Review cards to play Password or Pyramid type review game
	Essential Knowledge Notes	Interactive notes for vocabulary and content
	What Will Magnets Attract?	Experiment testing properties of magnetism
	Magnificent Magnets Lesson Plans Preassessment	Teacher resource

2.3 The student will investigate and understand basic properties of solids, liquids, and gases.

Type	Activity	Description
	Motor Mouth 2.3	Review cards to play Password or Pyramid type review game
	Essential Knowledge Notes	Interactive notes for vocabulary and content
	Solids and Liquids	Heat and cool substances to see what happens
	Changing States of Matter	Drag the labels to their correct places
	Changing State	Change the state of water by heating and cooling
	Gases Around Us	Heat and cool liquids to see what happens
	Matter Matters	Webquest on matter
	Solids and Liquids	Sorting Activity

2.4 The student will investigate and understand that plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they mature and grow.

Type	Activity	Description
	Essential Knowledge Notes	Interactive notes for vocabulary and content
	Motor Mouth 2.4	Review cards to play Password or Pyramid type review game
	Metamorphosis Song	Sing along and learn about metamorphosis
	Metamorphosis Song	3-D Butterfly Metamorphosis
	Jeremiah's Metamorphosis Song	Review key concepts of metamorphosis
	Butterfly Design Challenge	Design and build a butterfly model to demonstrate the movement of a butterflies wings
	Cycles of Life	Sequence the pictures correctly
	Journey North	Stories, pictures and videoclips of life cycles
	Butterfly Webquest	Learn the stages of a butterfly's life cycle
	Life Cycles	Read about butteryflies and frogs and complete the activites
	Butterfly Life Cycle I	Read about the life cycle of a butterfly
	Butterfly Life Cycle II	Review the life cycle of a butteryfly and complete the review quiz
	Frog Life Cycle	Students create a PowerPoint about the life cycle of a frog after collecting stage names and facts about each stage
	Life Cycles	Information and activities about the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, birds, and insects

2.5 The student will investigate and understand that living things are part of a system.

Type	Activity	Description
	Essential Knowledge Notes	Interactive notes for vocabulary and content
	Motor Mouth 2.5	Review cards to play Password or Pyramid type review game
	Health and Growth	Help Ben get the things he needs to grow healthy
	Macaulay Library	Archive of animal sounds and video
	Habitats	Drag the living things in the woodlands habitat into the correct places and sort them into a food chain

2.6 The student will investigate and understand basic types, changes, and patterns of weather.

Type	Activity	Description
	Essential Knowledge Notes	Interactive notes for vocabulary and content
	Water Cycle	Watch the movie and then students create a model of the watercycle with the cutouts
	Weather	Review key concepts
	Weather	Learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves!
	Weather Wiz Kids	A meteorologist's site about the different types of weather
	Our Weather	Graph the type of weather and temperature observed over a period of time

2.7 The student will investigate and understand that weather and seasonal changes affect plants, animals, and their surroundings.

Type	Activity	Description
	Essential Knowledge Notes	Interactive notes for vocabulary and content
	Animal Adaptations	PowerPoint to review essential knowledge
	Animal Adaptation Research	Research animal adaptations group project
	Animal Sort	Sort animals by seasonal adaptations
	Bird Adaptation Experiment	Experiment to discover the impact of beak adaptations
	Animals in Winter	Key concents of animal adaptations to winter
	Erosion	Key concepts of erosion and prevention
	Seasonal Sort	Sort key understandings of each season
	As the Earth Turns	Learn what causes day and night
	Animal Life Cycles and Adaptaions	Answer the multiple choice questions correctly and you'll know enough to fling your teacher away! Be careful...if you miss a question, you have to go back to the beginning!

2.8 The student will investigate and understand that plants produce oxygen and food, are a source of useful products, and provide benefits in nature.

Type	Activity	Description
	Essential Knowledge Notes	Interactive notes for vocabulary and content
	Plant Parts	Read about the importance of plant parts
	Green Plants	Various resources on plants
	The Great Plant Escape	A lesson describing plant parts
	Plants	Important plant products

Review

Type	Activity	Description
	Worksheet Generator	Free printable worksheets
	Pair It!	“Hidden Picture” science vocabulary matching game. Includes 3 levels of play, Level 3 includes one odd, “unmatchable” tile, so watch out for that one.
	Fling the Teacher Second Grade Review	Answer the multiple choice questions correctly and you'll know enough to fling your teacher away! Be careful...if you miss a question, you have to go back to the beginning!
	Half-a-Min SOL Review	Challenging! This game has the same questions as the game above, but it is not multiple choice! Guess the jumbled word by using the clue given and type it in within 30 seconds. Spelling counts!
	Teacher Invaders	Type the answers to the questions to earn more time to save the Earth from Alien Teacher Invaders! Spelling counts!
	Are You Smarter Than a Second Grader?	Gameshow format review of 2007 Released Test items
	Are You Smarter Than a Second Grader?	Gameshow format review of 2007 Released Test items to use with PRS
	2nd Grade Jeopardy Review	Gameshow format review of English, Math, Science, and Social Studies
	Jeopardy Review	Gameshow format review
	Teacher Invaders: 2nd Science Review	Type the answers to the questions to earn more time to save the Earth from Alien Teacher Invaders! Spelling counts!
	Fling the Teacher: 2nd Science Review	Multiple choice online activity