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2nd Grade Science Curriculum Resources

1st Nine Weeks

0207.1.1

0207.1.1 Design a new living thing and explain how it would acquire food, water, and air.
Game: Monster Bugs
Lesson: The Life Cycle of a Plant
Lesson: Build Your own Caterpillar
Video: BrainPOPJr Parts of a Plant

0207.2.1

0207.2.1 Draw or use pictures of a local environment to label the plants and animals.
Game: Interdependence
Game: Human and Animal Habitats
Game: Maze Craze
Game: Variation
Video: DE Magic School Bus: Gets Swamped
Video: DE Magic School Bus: Going Batty

0207.2.2/3

0207.2.2 Investigate ways that plants and animals depend on each other.
0207.2.3 Construct a flow chart that demonstrates how plants, animals, and the environment interact to provide basic life requirements.
Lesson: Working on the Food Chain
Lesson: Wonderful World of Plants
Video: BrainPOPJr Food Chain
Video: BrainPOP Carnivorous Plants
Video: BrainPOPJr Pollination
Game: Animal Adaptations

0207.3.1

0207.3.1 Describe the habitat of a particular organism based on its food, water, and air requirements.
Video: BrainPOPJr Habitats
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Game: Chain Reaction
Worksheets: Pond Animals Enchanted Learning
Smart Lesson: Food Chain
Video: DE Magic School Bus; In the Rain Forest
Video: DE Magic School Bus: Hops Home

0207.3.2

0207.3.2 Design a model of a habitat for an organism in which all of its needs would be met.
Game: Build an online Habitat
Game: The Great Habitat Match-Up
Game: Design a Panda Habitat
Game: Design a Habitat (Do not use sound)

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2nd Nine Weeks

0207.4.1

0207.4.1 Compare and contrast the life cycles of different organisms such as a chicken, butterfly, meal worm, frog, or human.
Game: Grow Up
Video: BrainPOPJr Life Cycle Butterflies
Video: BrainPOPJr Frogs
Video: DE Magic School Bus: Cracks a Yolk

0207.4.2

0207.4.2 Sequence a collection of pictures or illustrations into the correct stages of an organism’s life cycle.
Lesson: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Lesson: Life Cycle of a Frog
Illustration: Life Cyle of a Monarch

0207.4.3

0207.4.3 Look for similarities in pictures of members from the same human family.
Video: BrainPOP Heredity

0207.4.4

0207.4.4 Create a graphic organizer that compares observable traits that offspring share with their parents.
Experiment: Genetic Experiment
Lesson: Parents and Offspring

0207.5.1

0207.5.1 Compare and contrast the characteristics of organisms from two different environments.
Lesson: Critter Craze
Video Lesson: Snuffy's Safari

0207.5.2

0207.5.2 Infer the characteristics needed by an organism to survive in a particular environment.
Video: BrainPOPJr Extinct & Endangered Species
Video: BrainPOPJr Hibernation
Video: BrainPOPJr Migration

0207.5.3

0207.5.3 Observe fossils or pictures of fossils and make inferences about the organisms from which they originated.
Video: BrainPOPJr Fossils
Video: DE Exploring Dinosaurs

0207.5.4

0207.5.4 Compare pictures of fossils with animals or plants that are living today.
Game: Build a Dinosaur
Website: Fossils for Kids
Game: The Big Dig
Tour: Virtual Museum of Fossils

0207.6.1

0207.6.1 Observe and collect data on the sun's position at different times of the day.
Game: Space Chase
Experiment: Day and Night Experiment
Smart Lesson: Sun Lesson
Video: DE Science Facts and Fun What's in a Shadow?

0207.6.2

0207.6.2 Use science journals to draw and record changes in the moon over a period of time.
Lesson: Moonlight Madness
Smart Lesson: The Phases of the Moon
Smart Lesson: The Lunar Cycle
Video: DE A Closer Look at Space: The Moon
Video: BrainPOPJr Moon

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3rd Nine Weeks

0207.7.1

0207.7.1 Sort, analyze, and compare a variety of soil types.
Game: Rocks and Soil
Smart Lesson: Soils
Video: BrainPOPJr
Lesson: The Dirt on Soil

0207.7.2

0207.7.2 Observe rocks of different sizes with a hand lens and describe these materials according to their basic features.
Game: Blows Its Top
Video: BrainPOPJr Rocks and Minerials
Game: Rocks and Soil

0207.7.4

0207.7.4 Identify simple methods for reusing the earth’s resources.
Video: BrainPOPJr Natural Resources
Smart Lesson: Earth's Land, Air, and Water
Smart Lesson: Natural Resources
Game: I Don't Want to Clean My Room
Game: The Amazing Recycle-Ma-Whoozitz Machine!

0207.7.3

0207.7.3 Identify and categorize items in the classroom made from renewable or nonrenewable resources.
Video: BrainPOPJr Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Smart Lesson: Energy: Renewable vs Nonrenewable

0207.8.1

0207.8.1 Use records and graphs of seasonal temperature changes to draw conclusions about the weather during different times of the year.
Game: The Adventure of WeatherLizard
Video: BrainPOPJr Seasons
Video: BrainPOPJr Summer
Video: BrainPOPJr Fall
Video: BrainPOPJr Spring
Video: BrainPOPJr Winter
Game: Season

0207.9.1

0207.9.1 Use tools such as hand lenses, measurement devices, and simple arm balances to gather data about the physical properties of different objects.
Video: BrainPOP Measuring Matter
Video: BrainPOPJr Simple Machines
Smart Lesson: Simple Machines

0207.9.2

0207.9.2 Describe what happens when ice changes from a solid to a liquid.
Video: BrainPOP Matter Changing States
Lesson: Matter
Video: BrainPOPJr Changing States of Matter
Video: BrainPOPJr Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Games: Materials

0207.9.4

0207.9.4 Explain what happens when a balloon is blown up and pops.
Lesson: Why Does the Balloon Change
Video: DE First Look: Air
Video: DE Magic School Bus: Goes on Air

0207.9.3

0207.9.3 Describe what happens when water is heated to the point of evaporation.
Video: DE Water Smart: The Sun, Water Cycle and Climate
Smart Lesson: Water Cycle
Game: The Water Cycle
Games and Activites: The Water Cycle
Video: DE Magic School Bus: Wet All Over

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4th Nine Weeks

0207.10.2

0207.10.2 Investigate how the sun affects various objects and materials.
Video: BrainPOPJr Sun
Lesson: Between Fire and Ice: The Science of Heat
Lesson: Does the Sun Influence the Temperature of the Earth?
Lesson: Kids Science Experiments in the Sun
Lesson: What Absorbs More Heat?

0207.10.1

0207.10.1 Identify and explain how the sun affects objects on the surface of the earth.
Video: BrainPOPJr Sun
Lesson: Between Fire and Ice: The Science of Heat
Lesson: Does the Sun Influence the Temperature of the Earth?
Lesson: What Absorbs More Heat?

0207.11.1

0207.11.1 Use a variety of objects that vibrate to demonstrate how sounds are produced.
Game: Gets an Earful
Game: Changing Sound
Smart Lesson: Sound All Around Us
Video: DE Magic School Bus: In the Haunted House

0207.11.2

0207.11.2 Describe the sounds produced by different types of vibrating objects.
Smart Lesson: Sounds
Video: DE The Wonder of Sound

0207.12.1

0207.12.1 Explain how two magnets interact.
Game: Magnets
Video: A First Look: Magnets
Video: BrainPOPJr Magnets

0207.12.2

0207.12.2 Describe what happens when an object is dropped and record the observations in a science notebook.
Video: BrainPOPJr Gravity
Video: BrainPOPJr Pushes and Pulls
Smart Lesson: Forces and Gravity
Game: Pushes and Pulls
Video: Magic School Bus: Gains Weight

Apps