Little 2nd Grade SCIENCE Thinkers - Curriculum Bundle

Little SCIENCE Thinkers is a complete curriculum specifically for 2nd Grade.  It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students.  It is cross-referenced and aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and also addresses many of the main topics found in US state Science Standards for 2nd grade. Click here for the TEKS alignment.

This curriculum currently contains 4 unit plans, with 60 lessons. Most lessons take 1 class period to complete, however there are typically 1-2 lessons in each unit that will take multiple class periods.
Lessons are approximately 35-45 minutes in length.

The units and lessons included are:

Unit 1: MATTER

Lesson 1: BEING A SCIENTIST

Lesson 2: SCIENCE TOOLS AND SAFETY

Lesson 3: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

Lesson 4: STATES OF MATTER

Lesson 5: PROPERTIES OF MATTER

Lesson 6: DESCRIBING MATTER

Lesson 7: CLASSIFYING MATTER

Lesson 8: STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS

Lesson 9: ASSEMBLING AND DISASSEMBLING STRUCTURES

Lesson 10: CHANGING STATES OF MATTER

Lesson 11: REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE CHANGES

Lesson 12: SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 13: SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 14: REVIEW

Lesson 15: ASSESSMENT

UNIT 2: LIVING THINGS

Lesson 1: LIVING THINGS ALL AROUND

Lesson 2: WHAT PLANTS NEED

Lesson 3: PLANT NEEDS EXPERIMENT

Lesson 4: INTERDEPENDENCE: SEED DISPERSAL AND POLLINATION

Lesson 5: ANIMAL NEEDS AND SURVIVAL

Lesson 6: MIGRATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Lesson 7: HIBERNATION, DORMANCY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Lesson 8: INTERDEPENDENCE: FOOD CHAINS

Lesson 9: PLANT LIFE CYCLES

Lesson 10: ANIMAL LIFE CYCLES

Lesson 11: OFFSPRING AND INHERITED TRAITS

Lesson 12: EXTINCTION AND FOSSILS

Lesson 13: SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 14: REVIEW

Lesson 15: ASSESSMENT

UNIT 3: HABITATS

Lesson 1: BIODIVERSITY IN HABITATS

Lesson 2: DESERT HABITATS

Lesson 3: TEMPERATE FOREST HABITATS

Lesson 4: GRASSLAND HABITATS

Lesson 5: MARINE HABITATS

Lesson 6: FRESHWATER HABITATS

Lesson 7: POLAR HABITATS

Lesson 8: TUNDRA HABITATS

Lesson 9: TROPICAL RAINFOREST HABITATS

Lesson 10: TROPICAL RAINFOREST CRAFTIVITY

Lesson 11: MICROHABITAT INVESTIGATION

Lesson 12: SCIENCE STATIONS (2 DAYS)

Lesson 13: HABITAT RESEARCH PROJECT

Lesson 14: REVIEW

Lesson 15: ASSESSMENT

UNIT 4: EARTH’S SYSTEMS

Lesson 1: THE SYSTEMS OF EARTH

Lesson 2: EARTH’S LANDFORMS

Lesson 3: EARTH’S WATER AND THE WATER CYCLE

Lesson 4: MAPPING LANDFORMS AND BODIES OF WATER

Lesson 5: MAKING A LANDFORM/WATER 3D MODEL

Lesson 6: HOW WATER CHANGES EARTH’S SURFACE

Lesson 7: WIND

Lesson 8: HOW WIND CHANGES EARTH’S SURFACE

Lesson 9: INVESTIGATION: DESIGNING A SOLUTION TO PREVENT WIND EROSION

Lesson 10: NATURAL EVENTS THAT CHANGE EARTH’S SURFACE

Lesson 11: SLOW CHANGE - AN INVESTIGATION OF NIAGARA FALLS

Lesson 12: FAST CHANGE - AN INVESTIGATION OF THE HOME REEF VOLCANO ERUPTION

Lesson 13: SCIENCE STATIONS

Lesson 14: REVIEW

Lesson 15: ASSESSMENT

-----------------WHAT’S INCLUDED IN EACH UNIT?--------------------

-60 Step-by-step, SCRIPTED Lesson Plans (15 Lessons per unit, 35-45 minutes each)

-Printable/projectable Books for Read-Alouds (7-10 nonfiction books per unit)

-60 PowerPoints (one for every lesson)

-Essential Question and Learning Target posters

-Easy to prep Science Investigations and Experiments

-Science Stations (5-6 Stations per unit)

-Anchor Charts

-Whole group and Independent Activities

-Student Workbook that follows each lesson

-Quick Check assessment for every lesson

-Primary-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring

-Parent Letter

-All books, learning targets, most activities, and workbook pages are included in the lesson PowerPoints

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Each unit in this curriculum contains a PowerPoint that guides each lesson and contains the learning targets, read aloud books, and student workbook pages. You can upload each lesson PowerPoint to your Google Drive, open it in Google Slides, and save as a Google Slide document. (Please note, slides will not contain movable pieces.)

I also have a tutorial for using resources with the Seesaw app. You can find that HERE.

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LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal, or district interested in transferable licenses to accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a quote at karen@mrsjonessclass.com .

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Little Science Thinkers curriculum is an original teaching curriculum created and copyrighted by Karen Jones.

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