RPS Science Benchmarks
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Standard
Grade 2
Trimester 1 Big Idea: Our Unique Planet
Through problem-solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing ,
students will know and be able to…..
1.1
Recognize that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on the earth’s surface.
1.2
Understand that air is a mixture of gases that is all around us and that wind is moving air.
1.3
Describe the weather changes from day to day and over the seasons.
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Recognize that the sun supplies heat and light to the earth and is necessary for life.
Identify some events around us that have repeating patterns, including the seasons of the year, day
and night.
Recognize that fossils provide us information about living things that inhabited the Earth year's ago.
Identify some dinosaurs and their characteristics
2.7
Recognize changes in appearance that animals and plants go through as the seasons change.
1.5
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Identify and describe the characteristics of natural materials and human-made materials
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Identify and explain some possible uses for natural materials and human-made materials
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Trimester 2 Big Idea: Solids, Liquids and Gases
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Sort objects by observable properties such as size, shape, color, weight, and texture.
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Identify objects and materials as solid, liquid, or gas.
Recognize that solids have a definite shape and that liquids and gases take the shape of their
container.
Describe the various ways that objects can move, such as in a straight line, zigzag, back-and-forth,
round-and-round, fast, and slow.
3.5
Recognize that under some conditions, objects can be balanced.
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Identify and describe the safe and proper uses of tools and materials to construct simple structures.
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4.2.1
RPS Science Benchmarks
Grade 2
Identify tools and simple machines used for specific purposes.
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Trimester 3 Big Idea: Life Cycles
2.1
Recognize that plants and animals are living things that grow, reproduce and need food, water and
air.
2.2
Differentiate between living and nonliving things.
2.2
Group both living and nonliving things according to the characteristics that they share.
2.3
Recognize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles vary for different living things.
Describe ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed
appearance.
Identify the ways in which an organism’s habitat provides for its basic needs (plants require air,
water, nutrients, and light; animals require food, water, air, and shelter).
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Recognize changes in appearance that animals and plants go through as the seasons change.
Recognize that people and other animals interact with the environment through their senses of
sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
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