Grade 2

Embedded Inquiry

Embedded Technology & Engineering

Life Science

Earth and Space Science

Physical Science

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Standard 1 - Cells

Standard 2 - Interdependence

Standard 3 - Flow of Matter and Energy

Standard 4 - Heredity

Standard 5 - Biodiversity and Change

Standard 6 - The Universe

Standard 7 – The Earth

Standard 8 - The Atmosphere

Standard 9 - Matter

Standard 10 - Energy

Standard 11 - Motion

Standard 12 - Forces in Nature

Observe the world of familiar objects using the senses and tools.

Ask questions, make logical predictions, plan investigations, and represent data.

Explain the data from an investigation.

Use senses and simple tools to make observations.

Communicate interest in simple phenomena and plan for simple investigations.

Communicate understanding of simple data using ageappropriate vocabulary.

Collect, discuss, and communicate findings from a variety of investigations.

Recognize that both natural materials and human-made tools have specific characteristics that determine their uses.

Apply engineering design and creative thinking to solve practical problems.

Explain how simple tools are used to extend the senses, make life easier, and solve everyday problems.

Invent designs for simple products.

Use tools to measure materials and construct simple products.

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Recognize that plants and animals are made up of smaller parts and use food, water, and air to survive.

Design a new living thing and explain how it would acquire food, water, and air.

Investigate the habitats of different kinds of local plants and animals.

Investigate living things found in different places.

Identify basic ways that plants and animals depend on each other.

Draw or use pictures of a local environment to label the plants and animals.

Investigate ways that plants and animals depend on each other.

Construct a flow chart that demonstrates how plants, animals, and the environment interact to provide basic life requirements.

Recognize that animals eat plants or other animals for food.

Describe the habitat of a particular organism based on its food, water, and air requirements.

Design a model of a habitat for an organism in which all of its needs would be met.

Compare the life cycles of various organisms.

Realize that parents pass along physical characteristics to their offspring.

Compare and contrast the life cycles of different organisms such as a chicken, butterfly, meal worm, frog, or human.

Sequence a collection of pictures or illustrations into the correct stages of an organism's life cycle.

Look for similarities in pictures of members from the same human family.

Create a graphic organizer that compares observable traits that offspring share with their parents.

Investigate the relationship between an animal's characteristics and the features of the environment where it lives.

Draw conclusions from fossils about organisms that lived in the past.

Compare and contrast the characteristics of organisms from two different environments.

Infer the characteristics needed by an organism to survive in a particular environment.

Observe fossils or pictures of fossils and make inferences about the organisms from which they originated.

Compare pictures of fossils with animals or plants that are living today.

Realize that the sun is our nearest star and that its position in the sky appears to change.

Make observations of changes in the moon's appearance over time.

Observe and collect data on the sun's position at different times of the day.

Use science journals to draw and record changes in the moon over a period of time.

Compare and record the components of a variety of soil types.

Describe rocks according to their origin, size, shape, texture, and color.

Differentiate between renewable and non–renewable resources.

Sort, analyze, and compare a variety of soil types.

Observe rocks of different sizes with a hand lens and describe these materials according to their basic features.

Identify and categorize items in the classroom made from renewable or non-renewable resources.

Identify simple methods for reusing the earth's resources.

Associate temperature patterns with seasonal changes.

Use records and graphs of seasonal temperature changes to draw conclusions about the weather during different times of the year.

Use tools to observe the physical properties of objects.

Investigate how temperature changes affect the state of matter.

Recognize that air takes up space.

Use tools such as hand lenses, measurement devices, and simple arm balances to gather data about the physical properties of different objects.

Describe what happens when ice changes from a solid to a liquid.

Describe what happens when water is heated to the point of evaporation.

Explain what happens when a balloon is blown up and pops.

Explain why the sun is the primary source of the earth's energy.

Identify and explain how the sun affects objects on the surface of the earth.

Investigate how the sun affects various objects and materials.

Investigate how vibrating objects produce sound.

Classify sounds according to their loudness and pitch.

Use a variety of objects that vibrate to demonstrate how sounds are produced.

Describe the sounds produced by different types of vibrating objects.

Experiment with magnets to determine that objects can move without being touched.

Realize that things fall toward the ground unless something holds them up.

Explain how two magnets interact.

Describe what happens when an object is dropped and record the observations in a science notebook.