Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/Concepts:
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #1
Skills: The children will
tell the needs of living
things and identify the
parts of plants. They will
recognize some foods as
stems, leaves, roots and
flowers.
Assessments:
Observations
Classroom work
unit test
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Week 1 Demonstrate that we are all scientists.
Scientists inquire, hypothesize, investigate and test
their ideas.
Life Sciences
Week 2 Explore plants as living things: Define living
and nonliving things. Identify the needs of living
things: air, water, nutrients, living space and light.
Week 3 Learn the parts of plants and seeds: Examine
plants and seeds and look at their similarities and
differences. Label the parts of plants and seeds: root,
stem, leaf, flower, seed, seed coat, and embryo.
Week 4 Exploring plants as food: Recognize that
food is a basic need of plants and animals for energy.
We eat stems, roots, leaves and flowers.
Critical Questions:
What are the needs of living things?
How can you tell if something is living?
What are the parts of a seed?
What are the parts of a plant?
Give examples of food that is a root, stem or leaf.
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of September we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade
science. We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 9961511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/Concepts:
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #2
Skills: The children will
tell the characteristics of
animals and their needs.
They will grasp the food
chain and why animals
need to adapt to their
environment to survive.
Assessments:
Observations
Classroom work and quiz
Unit test
Life Sciences
Week 1 Explore animals as living things. Animal
characteristics: move, grow, eat, drink and reproduce.
Needs of animals are: air, water, food, living space
and shelter.
Week 2 Learn about the life cycles of animals and
how they adapt to their environment to stay alive.
Week 3 Learn about the different types of animals:
mammal, bird, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and insects.
Week 4 Examine food chains and learn about
camouflage, predators and prey.
Critical Questions:
What are the characteristics of animals?
What do animals need to survive?
What is a food chain?
Give examples of the different kinds of animals.
What is the difference between a predator and its
prey?
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of October we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade
science. We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned
above. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school
at 996-1511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/ Concepts
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #3
Skills: The children will be able
to describe different habitats.
They will understand how
plants and animals depend on
each other for survival. They
will know about the habitats of
Ohio.
Assessments:
Observations
Classroom work and quizzes
Unit test
Life Sciences
Week 1: Defining habitats as homes for plants
and animals to meet their needs.
Week 2: Examine different habitats: rain forest,
desert, grasslands, tundra, ocean, and pond.
Week 3: Study habitats in Ohio.
Week 4: Discover how all living things are
dependent upon one another.
Critical Questions:
What is an environment?
How are animals affected by changes in their
habitat?
What are some habitats in Ohio?
Is it possible for animals and plants to
successfully move to a new habitat?
Why do some living things become extinct?
How can people work to protect the
environment?
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of November we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade
science. We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 9961511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #4
Skills: The children will tell
about their own habitat and the
plants and animals there. They
will have an understanding
about the importance of taking
care of our earth and how they
can help do that.
Assessments:
Observations
Quizes and tests
Classroom work and participation
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/ Concepts
Life Sciences
Week 1: Exploring the elements of plants,
animals and habitats through a project to review
what we have learned.
Week 2: Discovering how we can help to care for
the earth focusing on recycling and not polluting.
Week 3: Comparing Ohio’s plants, animals and
habitats to what we know about the world.
Critical Questions:
What is pollution? How does it affect the
environment?
What is recycling?
Why is it important to take care of the Earth?
How can we help to care for the land? Water?
Describe the habitat where you live.
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of December we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade
science. We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 9961511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/ Concepts
Scientific Ways of Knowing
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan # 5
Week 1: Explore the ways people learn using
their senses. Examine the senses of sight and
sound.
Week 2: Examine the senses of taste and smell.
Week 3: Explore the sense of touch
Week 4: Examine how we use our senses as
scientists.
Critical Questions:
How do people learn?
What are our senses? How do they work to help
us learn? How do we take care of and protect
Skills: The children will be able our senses?
to identify all five senses. They How do people adapt if they do not have all of
will have a basic understanding their senses?
of how each sense benefits their
life. They will know ways to
take care of their own senses.
Assessments:
Observations
Classroom work
Unit quizzes and tests
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of January we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade
science. We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 9961511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/ Concepts
Earth and Space Science
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #6
Skills: The children will
recognize there are more stars
than anyone can count. They
will observe the functions of the
sun, earth and moon to
understand seasonal changes,
day and night and the moon’s
phases.
Assessments:
Observations
Classroom work
Unit quizzes and tests
Week 1: Explore the solar system, stars and
space.
Week 2: Explore the causes of day and night by
observing the earth’s rotation.
Week 3: Explore the phases of the moon by
examining the earth’s orbit around the sun and
the moon’s orbit around the earth.
Week 4: Explore the causes of seasonal changes
on the earth by examining the tilt of the earth.
Critical Questions:
What is the Solar System and what are its parts?
What causes day and night?
Why does the moon seem to change?
What are the phases of the moon?
Why do we have seasons on the earth?
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of February we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade
science. We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 9961511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #7
Weather
Skills:
Children will be able to observe
and describe changes in the
daily weather as well as the
pattern of seasonal changes.
Children will work with
thermometers and rain gauges
for measuring temperature and
rain amounts.
Children will begin to
understand how weather affects
many aspects of their daily lives
as well as changes on Earth.
Assessments:
Observations
Classroom work
Unit quizzes and tests
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Earth Science Weather
Week 1: Exploring the seasons and how weather
changes.
Week 2: Explore why and how we measure the
weather.
Week 3: Study the water cycle and how it works
to make weather.
Week 4: Explore ways the weather makes
changes in the earth some that occur quickly and
some that happen over time.
Critical Questions:
1. What are the seasons and some characteristics
of each?
2. How do we use a weather vane, anemometer,
and thermometer?
3. How does the water cycle work?
4. In what ways does weather affect our planet
over time?
5. In what ways does weather make changes on
Earth quickly?
6. What are condensation, evaporation,
precipitation, water vapor and erosion?
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of March we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade
science. We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 9961511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #8
Physical Science: Sound and
Light
Skills: The children will learn
what makes sound and how it
travels. They will produce
different kinds of sounds.
They will explore light and
shadows.
Assessments:
Observations
Quality of classroom work
Unit quizzes and tests
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/ Concepts
Week 1: We will explore how sound is made,
what causes different sounds, and how we hear
them.
Week 2: We will explore how sound travels
through solids and liquids in addition to different
levels of sounds.
Week 3: We will explore light and shadow and
their properties.
Critical Questions:
What causes sound?
What are vibrations?
How do sounds travel to your brain?
How do sounds travel through solids and liquids?
What is reflection?
How does light move?
What makes shadows?
What are different ways for light to travel
through objects?
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of April we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade science.
We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above. If you
have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 996-1511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas
2nd Grade Science
Unit Plan #9
Science and Technology
Grade Level State Indicators Covered:
Content/ Concepts
Week 1: We will explore the benefits and risks of
technology. We will also investigate why people
invent new products.
Week 2: We will explore how new ideas and
buildings affect people and the environment. We
will also begin to examine the design process used
to make something.
Week 3: We will develop our design processes
and orally communicate our creations to the
class.
Week 4: Continue from week 3.
Critical Questions:
How has technology helped us?
What risks are involved in using technology?
Why is it important for people to invent new
Skills: The children will learn
products?
that developing and using new
How could a new idea be useful/harmful to
technology involves benefits and people?
risks. Students will discuss why How could a new idea be useful/harmful to the
people invent new products.
environment?
They will predict how building
What are the steps of the design process?
or trying something new might
affect other people and the
environment. Each student will
use the design process to
communicate to the class how
something is made.
Assessments:
Observations
Quality of classroom work
Unit test
Design Process Assignment
Dear Parents and Guardians,
During the month of May we will be working on the above unit in 2nd grade science.
We will be focusing on becoming proficient in the indicators mentioned above. If you
have any questions please feel free to contact me by calling the school at 996-1511.
Thank you,
Mrs. Thomas