Science

Second Grade Units of Study

Introduction

Learning Targets:

Life Science

Learning Targets:

Students can explain what habitats and ecosystems are.
Students can identify land habitats and evaluate the diversity of a habitat.
Students can identify adaptations of land plants and animals.
Students can identify where plants and animals live in water.
Students can identify adaptations of water plants and animals.
Students can explain and compare the diversity of habitats and explain how living things rely on each other.
Students can explain the importance of protecting habitats.

Earth Science

Learning Targets:

Students can identify different landforms on Earth.
Students can identify different bodies of water.
Students can use a map to show where land and water are on Earth.
Students can identify changes in landforms that happen quickly and slowly over time.
Students can explain how water and wind can change the shape of land.
Students can explain ways that humans change the Earth's surface.
Students can identify ways humans can protect Earth's land and water.

Physical Science

Learning Targets:

Students can tell the difference between a solid, liquid, and gas.
Students can describe matter by observing and testing its properties.
Students can identify solids and what makes them useful.
Students can identify liquids and what makes them useful.
Students can identify gases and what makes them useful.
Students can explain different ways matter can be changed.
Students can explain whether a change caused by heating or cooling matter is reversible or irreversible.
Students can explain how large objects can be built using smaller materials and explain why objects are built using materials that have certain properties.