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Science Curriculum

Course:  Science Grade 2 

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Habitats

  

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What is a habitat?

What are different land habitats?

What are different water habitats?

How do plants and animals help each other?

PDE: Ecosystem

PDE: Living parts of an ecosystem

PDE: Non-living parts of an ecosystem

PDE: System roles

PDE: Concept of "basic needs" (e.g., air, water, food) of plants

PDE: Interdependence of living things

PDE: Environments (e.g., wetland, tundra, desert, prairie, deep ocean, forest)

PDE: Living components of an ecosystem

PDE: Non-living components of an ecosystem

What are food chains and food webs?

PDE: Concept of "models"

PDE: Concept of "models"

PDE: Models for observation

PDE: Systems (e.g., water cycle, sun-Earth-moon system)

PDE: Simple modeling tools

 

PDE: Categorize parts of an ecosystem as living or non living

PDE: Describe the role of living parts of an ecosystem

PDE: Describe the role of non-living parts of an ecosystem

PDE: Describe basic needs of plants

PDE: Describe basic needs of animals

PDE: Describe living components of a local ecosystem (e.g., lentic and lotic systems, forest, cornfield, grasslands, city park, playground)

PDE: Describe non-living components of a local ecosystem (e.g., lentic and lotic systems, forest, cornfield, grasslands, city park, playground)

PDE: Describe interactions between living and nonliving components of a local ecosystem

PDE: Describe what happens to a living thing when its' habitat is changed

PDE: Describe how changes in the environment can affect systems

PDE: Predict how changes in the environment can affect systems

PDE: Identify what different models represent (e.g., maps show physical features, directions, distances; globes represent Earth; drawings of watersheds depict terrain; dioramas show ecosystems; concept maps show relationships of ideas).

PDE: Identify what different models represent (e.g., maps show physical features, directions, distances; globes represent Earth; drawings of watersheds depict terrain; dioramas show ecosystems; concept maps show relationships of ideas).

PDE: Use models to make observations

PDE: Explain how systems work

PDE: Use appropriate, simple modeling tools to describe a system

 

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill-Unit B-Chapter 3- Looking at Habitats

 

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill-Unit B-Chapter 4- Kinds of Habitats

 

 

4.1.4.A ~    Identify various types of water environments.

 

4.1.4.C ~ Identify living things found in water environments.

 

4.3.4.A ~ Know that plants, animals and humans are dependent on air and water.

 

4.6.4.A ~ Understand that living things are dependent on nonliving things in the environment for survival.

 

S4.A.3.2 ~ Use models to illustrate simple concepts and compare the models to what it represent. (Reference: 3.1.4.B, 4.3.4.C)

 

S4.B.2.1 ~ Identify and explain how adaptations help organisms to survive. (Reference: 4.7.4.B )

 

S4.B.3.2 ~ Describe, explain, and predict change in natural or human-made systems and the possible effects of those changes on the environment. (Reference: 4.2.4.C, 4.3.4.C, 4.6.4.C, 3.1.4.E)

 

 

 

 

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Plants

  

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What are living and nonliving things?

How do plants grow and change?

How are plants alike and different?

PDE: Concept of "basic needs" (e.g., air, water, food) of plants

PDE: Interdependence of living things

PDE: Life cycles of different organisms

PDE: Natural phenomenon (e.g., weather changes, length of daylight/night, movement of shadows, animal migrations, growth of plants)

 

PDE: Describe basic needs of plants

PDE: Describe how different parts of a living thing work together to provide what the organism needs (e.g., parts of plants: roots, stems, leaves)

 

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill-Unit A-Chapter 1- Plants

 

4.3.4.A ~ Know that plants, animals and humans are dependent on air and water.

 

S4.A.2.1 ~ Apply skills necessary to conduct an experiment or design a solution to solve a problem. (Reference: 3.2.4.C)

 

S4.B.1.1 ~ Identify and describe similarities and differences between living things and their life processes. (Reference: 3.3.4.A, 3.3.4.B, 4.3.4.A, 4.3.4.C, 4.6.4.A)

 

 

 

 

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Earth's Weather

  

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How does weather change?

What is the water cycle?

How do we measure weather conditions?

PDE: Natural systems (e.g., plant anatomy, water cycle)

PDE: Weather instruments (i.e., thermometer, rain gauge, weather vane, anemometer, and barometer)

PDE: Information (e.g., measuring: length-ruler, mass-balance scale, volume-beaker, temperature-thermometer; making observations: hands lens, binolculars, telescope).

PDE: Basic cloud types (i.e., cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and cumulonimbus)

PDE: Basic elements of weather (e.g., changes in temperature, precipitation)

PDE: Weather patterns (e.g., temperature, wind direction, wind speed, cloud types, precipitation)

PDE: Data charts

PDE: Graphs

PDE: Weather

 

PDE: Identify appropriate tools for specific tasks

PDE: Describe the information tools can provide

PDE: Identify observable patterns

PDE: Describe observable patterns

PDE: Identify basic cloud types

PDE: Make connections between basic cloud types and basic elements of weather

PDE: Identify appropriate weather instruments to study weather

PDE: Identify what weather instruments measure

 

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill-Unit D-Chapter 7- Observing Weather

 

S4.A.2.2 ~ Identify appropriate instruments for a specific task and describe the information the instrument can provide. (Reference: 3.7.4.A, 3.7.4.B)

 

S4.A.3.1 ~ Identify systems and describe relationships among parts of a familiar system (e.g., digestive system, simple machines, water cycle). (Reference: 3.1.4.A, 4.4.4.C, 4.6.4.A, 4.6.4.B, 3.6.4.A, 3.6.4.B, 3.6.4.C)

 

S4.A.3.3 ~ Identify and make observations about patterns that regularly occur and reoccur in nature. (Reference: 3.1.4.C, 3.2.4.B)

 

S4.D.2.1 ~ Identify basic weather conditions and how they are measured. (Reference: 3.5.4.C, 3.7.4.B, 3.2.4.B)

 

 

 

 

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The Sun, Moon, and Stars

  

 Content 

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What causes day and night?

What causes the seasons?

PDE: Sun

PDE: Earth

PDE: Moon

PDE: Sun-Earth-moon system

PDE: Time (e.g., days, months, years)

PDE: Seasonal change

 

PDE: Describe motions of the sun-Earth-moon system

PDE: Explain how the motion of the sun-Earth-moon system relates to time

PDE: Describe the causes of seasonal change as it relates to the rotation of the Earth

 

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill-Unit D-Chapter 8- Earth and Space

 

S4.D.3.1 ~ Describe Earth’s relationship to the sun and the moon. (Reference: 3.4.4.D)

 

 

 

 

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