Grade 2

The Nature of Science

Earth and Space Science

Physical Science

Life Science

The Practice of Science

Design, Process, and Problem Solving (STREAM)

Earth in Space and Time

Earth Structures

Earth Systems and Patterns

Properties of Matter

Changes in Matter

Forms of Energy

Organization and Development of Living Organisms

Generate questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration and systematic observations.

Compare the observations made by different teams that used the same method and/or tools.

Organize records (data), such as pictorial, written, or simple charts and graphs, of investigations conducted.

Ask "how do you know?" and present reasonable answers when asked the same question by others.

Explain how particular scientific investigations should yield similar conclusions when repeated.

Distinguish between empirical observation (what you see, hear, feel, smell, or taste) and ideas or inferences (what you think).

Explain how scientists alone or in groups are always investigating new ways to solve problems.

Cultivate an appreciation for all levels of creation.

Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how an object functions as needed to solve a given problem.

Analyze data from tests of objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs. 

Understand that God gave us an intellect and free will to choose what is right and avoid what is evil.

Identify conscience as God's gift to distinguish between right and wrong.

Practice care of personal belongings, classrooms, school building, and parish grounds.

Know that all work deserves respect.

Understand that work in school is an expression of God's gifts.

Participate and reflect on age-appropriate service projects.

We serve God by sharing our gifts with the community at whatever age we are in life.

Recognize and use personal gifts and talents to help others.

Identify each one's responsibility to share their time, talent, and treasure with the church.

Understand that gravity is a scientific law.

Understand that the Scientific Law of Gravity influences Earth's place in space.

Recognize that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on Earth's surface.

Describe how small pieces of rock and dead plant and animal parts can be the basis of soil and explain the process by which soil is formed.

Classify soil types based on color, texture (size of particles), the ability to retain water, and the ability to support the growth of plants.

Investigate how technology and tools help to extend the ability of humans to observe very small things and very large things.

Compare and describe changing patterns in nature that repeat themselves, such as weather conditions including temperature and precipitation, day to day and season to season.

Chart the seasons of the Church year associating the appropriate colors.

Investigate by observing and measuring, that the Sun's energy directly and indirectly warms the water, land, and air.

Investigate, observe and describe how water left in an open container disappears (evaporates), but water in a closed container does not disappear (evaporate).

State the importance of preparing for severe weather, lightning, and other weather related events.

Recognize that solids have a definite shape and that liquids and gases take the shape of their container.

Measure and compare temperatures taken every day at the same time.

Measure and compare temperatures of various samples of solids and liquids.

Describe the changes water undergoes when it changes state through heating and cooling by using familiar scientific terms such as melting, freezing, boiling, evaporation, and condensation.

Identify some basic forms of energy such as light, heat, sound, electrical, and mechanical.

Identify human body parts (brain, heart, lungs, stomach, muscles, and skeleton) and their basic functions.

Explain how our bodies are created by God to be respected by ourselves and others.

Compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival.

Identify ways human beings are different from other creatures.

Describe how animals and plants respond to changing seasons.

Observe and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants and animals.

Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs.

Appreciate creation as a gift from God. Recognize the responsibility to care for the gift of creation.

Demonstrate understanding of dignity, respecting the rights of others.