How to learn Grade 2: Science

Virginia Standards of Learning: Science, Grade 2

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1. Earth Resources

1. Preventing Erosion: Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land
2. What Living Things Need: Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions

2. Earth and Space Systems

1. Fast & Slow Earth Changes: Understand that Earth's surface changes: some changes are quick (eruptions, earthquakes) and some are slow (wind, water wearing away rock)
2. Why seasons change: Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year, noticing longer days in summer and shorter days in winter
3. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions
4. Weather vs climate: Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world, distinguishing between weather and climate

3. Living Systems and Processes

1. Habitats & Basic Needs: Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how habitats provide for basic needs and how organisms depend on each other
2. Changing Environments: Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers and challenges to living things
3. Living Things Vocabulary: Name and use vocabulary for what makes something living — alive, dead, never been alive, movement, nutrition, growth, reproduction, sensitivity, excretion — and apply these terms when classifying objects and explaining why plants and animals count as living things
4. Life Cycles of Organisms: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all share the common stages of birth, growth, reproduction, and death

4. Matter

1. States of Matter Vocabulary: Name and distinguish the three states of matter — solid, liquid, and gas — using properties vocabulary: hard, rigid, runny, flows, keeps its shape, fills its container; use 'change of state' to describe what happens when materials are heated or cooled
2. Heating & Cooling Changes: Observe and describe that some materials change state when heated or cooled, and measure the temperature at which changes occur in degrees Celsius

5. Force, Motion, and Energy

1. Forces Vocabulary: Name and describe forces using precise vocabulary — force, push, pull, twist, stretch, squash, contact force, non-contact force, gravity, weight, friction, air resistance, upthrust — and distinguish between forces that require physical contact and forces that act at a distance
2. Pushes & Pulls: Understand that pushes and pulls are forces that can change the speed or direction of an object's motion, and compare the effects of different strengths and directions

6. Economics · The student will apply history and social science skills to understand basic economic principles by

1. Natural resources: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment

7. Geography · The student will apply history and social science skills to develop geographic mapping skills using world maps and globes by

1. Shapes of land and water: Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land (mountains, valleys, plains) and bodies of water (rivers, lakes, oceans) in an area