Plant and Animal Needs & Life Cycles Second Grade Science Unit NGSS
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This second grade plant and animal needs, life cycles and interdependence science bundle is a 3-week science resource carefully designed with literally everything you need to teach 2nd grade NGSS Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems and these standards: 2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2, 2-LS4-1, K-2-ETS1-2,Price $21.60Original Price $34.00Save $12.40
Teaching second grade science aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards is quite challenging without quality resources to guide you. These in-depth units address all 2nd grade NGSS topics and enable you to plan and teach high-engagement, three-dimensional science lessons. The six units in tPrice $84.00Original Price $132.00Save $48.00
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This 2nd grade Plant & Animal Needs & Life Cycles resource is a comprehensive 3-week science unit carefully designed with literally everything you need to teach NGSS and many state science standards all in one, in-depth resource.
It addresses NGSS Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems and these standards: 2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2, 2-LS4-1, K-2-ETS1-2, K-2-ETS1-3. It includes 17 days of high-interest, hands-on science lessons.
This unit is also available bundled with a digital companion version of the student activities and narrated audio lessons. CLICK HERE.
Lessons:
Lesson 1: Plant Life Cycle
Lesson 2: Plant Needs
Lesson 3: Animal Life Cycles
Lesson 4: Animal Needs
Lesson 5: Interdependence: Ways Plants Rely on Animals
Lesson 6: Interdependence: Ways Animals Rely on Plants
Topics:
- Plant and animal interdependence
- Plant needs and their lifecycles
- Animal needs and their life cycles
- Seed dispersal
- Pollination and pollinators
- Parts of a seed, plant, and flower
Each ready-to-teach lesson comes with an in-depth instructional PowerPoint, detailed, scripted lesson plans, response journal activities, differentiated quizzes, hands-on investigations, and simple lab activities that are actually do-able in your classroom.
The lessons also include vocabulary posters, guiding questions, and learning objectives display cards as well as related videos for each lesson. Literacy and math-based science centers make it easy to integrate science and reinforce the lessons during other subjects.
Assessments are easy to differentiate using one of two quiz formats: the fill-in-the-blank option or the short, written response format. At the end of the unit, students are assessed with a comprehensive unit test.
What’s included:
- A complete Teacher’s Guide with a flexible 3-week Pacing Guide that can be shortened to fit your schedule
- 17 Days of detailed, scripted lesson plans.
- An in-depth Teaching PowerPoint with embedded videos
- 8 Hands-on lab investigations and STEM activities with guided lab procedures and step-by-step directions with photos.
- Essential questions posters and learning target cards
- Student science journal/workbook with follow-up practice pages for each lesson
- Science-based reading passage
- Vocabulary cards + full-page vocabulary posters
- Full-page life cycle posters
- Quizzes for each lesson in 2 formats (short written response or fill in the blank) with answer keys
- Final unit test with optional pages for differentiation
- Answer keys
- Standards alignment pages for each lesson
- Teacher planning binder with cover and sections
- Videos for each lesson – You will need access to YouTube to view the videos.
- BONUS Bulletin board set
STEM Labs, Experiments and Investigations
Students explore the interdependence of plants and animals, plan and carry out simulations, build models, and conduct investigations in 8 high-interest labs to answer these scientific questions:
- What’s Inside a Seed?
- Can Plants Grow Without Sunlight?
- How Does Water Move Through a Plant?
- What Care Do Animals Need?
- How Do Animals Move Seeds?
- Pollination Simulation: How Do Animals Help Plants Reproduce?
- Breathing Leaves: How Do Leaves Produce Oxygen?
5 Literacy and Math-Based Science Centers
Reinforce science content as students practice these literacy & math skills:
- Cause & Effect
- Organizing Data
- Sorting and Classifying
- Applying Vocabulary
- Math word problems using science content
This unit is also available in a yearlong bundle of 2nd grade science curriculum > > CLICK HERE.
*Please see the preview for details and pictures of all resources included in this unit.
CLICK HERE for a list of materials needed to do the labs.
Note: This is a very large unit that downloads as a zipped (ZIP) folder with 5 separate files inside. You will need to “unzip” the folder to access and open the files correctly. CLICK HERE for directions to open a ZIP file.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
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2nd grade science units available:
Scientists & the Scientific Method: An Introduction to Science
Structure & Properties of Matter
Plant & Animal Interdependence
2nd grade DIGITAL units with audio lessons:
Scientists & Scientific Method
Plant & Animal Interdependence & Life Cycles
Related 2nd grade science readers & passages:
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