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Science Common Core RI.2.4 unit plans
Second Grade Science Units NGSS Bundle
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 this bundle blend three important aspects of science and engineering education: the content, the skills, and the big-picture ideas. These units incorporate phenomena, integrate Crosscutting Concepts, a
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2nd
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 2-PS1-4
, 2-LS4-1
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Earth Day Activities Unit - Craft, Writing, Bulletin Board, Project, Art, & Hat
Make learning about Earth Day this spring exciting with engaging earth day activities and mini-lessons about the Earth, pollution, and recycling. Kids will love the Earth Day craft crown, Earth Day Reading Comprehension, Earth Day poem and writing prompts, and so much more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension, while learning interesting facts about important Earth Day c
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1st - 3rd
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Solar System Independent Work - Print & Digital Space and Planets Activities
These digital Solar System activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We all know
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1st - 2nd
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Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
This is a BUNDLE of 5 hands-on science units that are perfect for Grade 3. All grade 3 science lessons are aligned to the British Columbia Grade 3 BC Big Ideas and NGSS. Each science unit includes detailed lesson plans so you don't have to create them! This bundle covers all of the Grade 3 BC Big Ideas for Science. In other provinces/territories/states the curriculum and content may be more appropriate for other grade levels.(See "Preview" for a specific breakdown of the curriculum covered).
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2nd - 4th
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Sea Turtle Reptile Science Unit - Life Cycle Craft & Ocean Animal Activities
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about sea turtles with life science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction summer science unit makes learning about these ocean animal reptiles fun. It includes a sea turtle craft, reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more!This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting fa
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1st - 3rd
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All About Bats Unit - Bat Activities - Science, Reading, Writing & Craft - Fall
Make learning all about bats fun with these engaging, hands-on bat activities perfect for your first grade, second grade, and third grade students. This bat unit includes a variety of fun, low-prep bat activities to keep kids engaged & gives teachers differentiated options.This bats unit includes everything you’ll need to teach all about bats this fall:✅ Non-fiction bat facts book✅ Bat science mini-lessons that teach important bat facts✅ Bat writing activities✅ A fun bat craft✅ …and more!The
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1st - 3rd
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Solar System No Prep Unit | Print and Digital
Looking to incorporate the Solar System into several subject areas? This complete no-prep unit can be used in your Science and Reading/LA block. Students will stay engaged while completing the hands-on activities. Needing something for Google Classroom? This also contains interactive activities.This now contains activities for Google Classroom. There is a link on page 2 of the PDF that allows you to make a copy. There are text boxes that allow students to complete the activities.This unit contai
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Solar System BUNDLE | Print and Digital
Weather Unit and Reading Passages | Print and Digital
Looking for hands-on activities to teach your students about weather? This cross curricular unit will keep your students ENGAGED while teaching them all they need to know about weather. There are multiple interactive activities that allow you to make lapbooks or to use in interactive notebooks. Along with reading passages, there are also graphing activities, chart activities, and even a map activity. NOTE: This resource now has Google Classroom activities, making it ideal for digital distance l
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Space Activities - Digital & Printable Moon, Solar System, Exploring Space, Sun
This bundle of digital Space activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.These Learning Quests provide literacy and research activities t
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1st - 2nd
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Salmon Life Cycle Spring Science Unit Lessons, Activities, Craft, Project
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about salmon and its life cycle with life science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction, spring science unit makes learning about salmon fun. It includes a salmon incubation journal, craft, reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension while they learn inte
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1st - 3rd
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Weather Tools and Instruments Research Unit with PowerPoint
Easily and thoroughly teach your students about weather tools in science with these ready to go materials and PowerPoint! This unit is interactive and utilizes multimodal strategies to increase student engagement and outcomes. The weather tools unit is a comprehensive week long unit that integrates technology, vocabulary, writing, art, reading strategies and more! Students will respond to informational text by answering questions in a student booklet in a variety of formats. Students will learn
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Science and Social Studies YEAR LONG POCKETBOOK MEGA Bundle!
Landforms Science Unit
Learn all about landforms, how they change, and how to recognize them in your own local landscape! This is a hands-on landforms science unit featuring directed lessons, project-based learning, and inquiry projects, a word wall, vocabulary, and complete assessments along the way. Each lesson in this unit includes a complete teaching guide with detailed set-up instructions and thorough lesson plans. Take back your nights and weekends and let us do the planning for you!What's included in this hands
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
2-ESS1-1
, 2-ESS2-1
, 2-ESS2-2
Also included in: Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
Biodiversity Science Unit
Biodiversity is all around is! In this hands-on complete biodiversity science unit students will explore local plants, animals, ecosystems, and food chains to discover the biodiversity in their area. Featuring directed lessons, project-based learning, and inquiry projects, a word wall, vocabulary, and complete assessments along the way. Each lesson in this unit includes a complete teaching guide with detailed set-up instructions and thorough lesson plans. Take back your nights and weekends and
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
2-LS4-1
Also included in: Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
Inventors and Inventions BUNDLE | Print and Digital
Looking to teach your students about inventors and their inventions? This best-selling cross-curricular unit allows you to teach your students about inventors in a fun and interactive way! This now has a link on page 2 of the PDF allowing use in Google Classroom. Students can complete different activities online. This makes it ideal for distance learningThe no-prep unit covers the following 20 inventors:- Mary Anderson- Alexander Graham Bell- Louis Braille- George Washington Carver- Leonardo da
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1st - 5th
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K-2 Science Curriculum & Activities - 10 Next Generation Science Standards Units
Are you looking for engaging science units to help address the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade? This K-2 science curriculum includes hands on science labs, STEM connections, literacy connections and more for each of the themes in the NGSS K-2 standards.Stop worrying about what science lessons to teach each week! I've got you covered. These units are well thought out, planned and ready to go for you. Just follow the plans, print the mate
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K - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, 1-ESS1-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 1-LS1-1
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Human Body Systems Digital Distance Learning Unit for GOOGLE classroom
Teach the Human Body Systems with this fascinating GOOGLE science Unit! Students will learn about the Muscular, Skeletal, Digestive, Respiratory, Circulatory and Nervous system in 6 separate digital units. Easily differentiate with built in options that require NO EXTRA PREP. Utilize Google Classroom and open the entire resource in Google Slides to present information about the human body systems in an interactive, digital format that can be easily differentiated for all learners.Included with y
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
Tsunami Natural Disaster Research Unit with PowerPoint
Get your students engaged with informational text by teaching a week long unit on Tsunamis! The materials in this unit are interactive and utilize multimodal strategies to increase student engagement and outcomes. The Tsunami unit is a comprehensive week long unit that integrates technology, vocabulary, writing, art, reading strategies and more! Students will respond to informational text by answering questions in a student booklet in a variety of formats. Students will learn vocabulary words by
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1st - 3rd
BUBBLE GUM - Integrated Mini Unit with Reading, Writing, Math, Science, and Art
FAMOUS INVENTIONS - BUBBLE GUMInspired by Meghan McCarthy's narrative nonfiction picture book POP! THE INVENTION OF BUBBLE GUM, this cross-curricular mini-unit is a really fun way to celebrate the famous treat invented by Walter Diemer, a candy company accountant who became an accidental inventor. The unit is designed to take 1-2 days to complete and includes a variety of engaging, hands-on lessons covering multiple subjects. It is perfect for:A Unit on Inventors or Famous InventionsA Genre Stud
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1st - 2nd
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NGSS:
2-PS1-4
, 2-PS1-1
States of Matter Science Unit
Matter is fun when you get hands-on with experiments, activities, and projects! Students will love learning all about matter, states of matter, and properties of matter with this all inclusive matter unit for elementary! This is a hands-on Science unit featuring directed lessons, experiments, project-based learning, inquiry projects, a word wall, vocabulary, and complete assessments along the way. Each lesson in this unit includes a complete teaching guide with detailed set-up instructions and t
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2nd - 4th
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NGSS:
2-PS1-1
, 2-PS1-2
, 2-PS1-3
Also included in: Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
Thermal Energy Science Unit
Learn about how thermal energy (heat energy) is produced and transferred with this fun and hands-on thermal energy science unit for elementary featuring three experiments, guided lessons, vocabulary cards, non-fiction reading, a word wall, and summative and formative assessments! Each lesson in this unit includes a complete teaching guide with detailed set-up instructions and thorough lesson plans. Take back your nights and weekends and let us do the planning for you!Aligned to the British Colu
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Grade 3 Science Lessons BUNDLE, Digital and Printable
Digestive System Independent Work - Human Body Print & Digital Activities
These digital Digestive System activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We all k
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2nd - 3rd
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Earthquakes Natural Disaster Research Unit with PowerPoint
Get your students engaged with informational text by teaching a week long unit on Earthquakes! The materials in this unit are interactive and utilize multimodal strategies to increase student engagement and outcomes. The Earthquake unit is a comprehensive week long unit that integrates technology, vocabulary, writing, art, reading strategies and more! Students will respond to informational text by answering questions in a student booklet in a variety of formats. Students will learn vocabulary wo
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
The Solar System: The Sun Research Unit with PowerPoint
Integrate Science and ELA and get your students engaged with informational text by teaching a week long unit on the Sun! The materials in this unit are interactive and utilize multimodal strategies to increase student engagement and outcomes. The Sun unit is a comprehensive week long unit that integrates technology, vocabulary, writing, art, reading strategies and more! Students will respond to informational text by answering questions in a student booklet in a variety of formats. Students will
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Hurricane Natural Disaster Research Unit with PowerPoint
Get your students engaged with natural disasters informational text by teaching a week long unit on Hurricanes. The materials in this unit are interactive and utilize multimodal strategies to increase student engagement and outcomes. The Hurricane unit is a comprehensive week long unit that integrates technology, vocabulary, writing, art, reading strategies and more! Students will respond to informational text by answering questions in a student booklet in a variety of formats. Students will lea
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Importance of learning science
Learning science is particularly important for students as it equips them with the essential knowledge and skills to make sense of the world around them. Science education is not just about memorizing facts. It fosters critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving abilities. These skills are not only useful in school but also in everyday life beyond the classroom.
Benefits of learning science
Learning science offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. In fact, it helps students:
- Question the world around them and seek evidence-based explanations
- Cultivate their ability to observe, experiment, and analyze data
- Nurture a sense of curiosity, awe, and wonder about the natural world
- Understand natural phenomena and the laws that govern the universe
With a solid foundation in science, teachers can help empower students to think critically, solve problems, make informed decisions, and engage with the world around them in meaningful ways.
Teaching with science resources
One of the best parts about science class is all of the possibilities for hands-on, collaborative learning! Think: labs, experiments, inquiry-based activities, and design challenges. These activities encourage students to explore scientific concepts by observing, asking questions, and conducting investigations. Additionally, with small group centers, students can engage in group experiments, discussions, and projects that require them to collaborate, share ideas, and solve problems together.
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