Resources that support the Science Standards of Learning - 2nd Grade
This quiz contains questions pertaining to types of weather, weather instruments, as well as a few questions about weathering and erosion.
Students will participate in multiple hands on activities with states of matter over several days.
Foster students’ creativity as they pretend to be weather reporters using a green screen.
Butterfly adaptations are linked to Greek and Roman mosaics.
This resource provides a summary of common preconceptions and misconceptions in Life Science.
This lesson is part of the Virginia K-12 Computer Science Pipeline which is partly funded through a GO Virginia grant in partnership with Chesapeake Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun Education Foundation. During this lesson, students will investigate the effect of water on surfaces as well as on a structural model they create.
Binary is a way of representing information using only two options.Binary uses a series of 0 and 1 to represent information. In this activity, students will use a chart that converts binary numbers to alphabetic characters. This activity incorporates decoding of binary code into letters to answer questions related to energy and motion.
Kevin the koala needs to come down from the tree quickly and safely.Design and create a slide that can help Kevin get down from the tree before it falls. The slide should reach the top of the tree, about 12 inches tall and have a “bucket” at the end to catch the marble.
Teach about the Fibonacci sequence being a series of numbers and which is found reflected in nature. Students create artwork based on the sequence.
This resource is a remix from Illustrative Mathematics https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/1086.Considering the original resource, there are a few suggestions added to the remix. Modification 1 - Instead of providing students one type of bean ( as originally stated), it would allow curiosity if students were provided with an assorted selection of beans/seeds like sunflower seed, carrot seed, peas and bean, along with which the unifix cubes can be color-coded for each bean/seed. This would benefit all types of learners as they will be able to visualize and build a concrete conceptual understanding of the content. Modification 2 - This modification allows students to choose the unit of measure and provide them with different types of ruler ( mm, cm and inches), promoting mathematical discourse on customary and metric conversions as they engage in selecting the appropriate unit of measure. This allows students to identify the unit of measure in an active learning environment. As teachers incorporate these two modifications, it allows students to develop a growth mindset by understanding how mathematics and science go hand in hand, encouraging literacy within the curriculum.
Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.
Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.
Students use Scratch to demonstrate their understanding of hibernation.
This lesson is part of the Virginia K-12 Computer Science Pipeline which is partly funded through a GO Virginia grant in partnership with Chesapeake Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun Education Foundation. During this lesson, students will explore contact and noncontact forces.
Make life cycles and data recording “egg”-citing! Incubate eggs in your classroom. As you do, monitor and record data.
2.4 The student will investigate and understand that plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they grow and develop. Key ideas includea) animals have life cycles This choice board helps students explore animal life cycles at his/her own pace. Students play an interactive hyper doc board game. This can be individual or whole class. It includes videos, online games, assessments, and is a lot of fun. Great way to engage any learner! Get started with the center square and move around the board to learn more about life cycles.
Second grade students investigate noncontact forces while investigating magnetic attraction.
The kindergarteners need games to play during indoor recess. Students will design and create a simple game or maze that uses a magnet to make something move. The object of the game should be simple so that kindergarteners can understand the directions and successfully play it. The game should also be neat and appealing so that kindergarten students will want to play it.
Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.
Students will use the Makey Makey board to create an interactive poster using weather images, recordings and/or text to display their knowledge of weather. They will use conductive materials to create conductive touchpoints.