Little 2nd Grade SCIENCE Thinkers {UNIT 2: Living Things}

Little 2nd grade Science Thinkers is a complete science curriculum specifically for students in grade 2.  It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students. It incorporates many state and NGSS standards (NGSS standard alignment included, CLICK HERE for the TEKS alignment). This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.

UNIT 2: LIVING THINGS introduces your students to how living things depend on each other for survival. It includes many engaging investigations for your class. It includes lessons on these topics:

Needs of plants and animals

How plant parts help them meet their basic needs

Seed dispersal and pollination

How physical characteristics and behaviors help animals survive
Animal migration
Dormancy and hibernation of living things
Life cycles of plants and animals, including metamorphosis
Inherited Traits of plants and animals
Extinction and fossils

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COMPONENTS OF THE UNIT:

-A complete Teacher Guide

-10 printable/projectable Books for Read Alouds

-15 Step-by-step, Scripted Lesson Plans

-Essential Question and Learning Target Posters

-Anchor Charts

-Investigations and Experiment

-6 Science Stations

-Whole group Activities

-Vocabulary Cards

-Student Workbook

-Quick Checks

-Primary-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring

-Parent Letter

-A complete unit PowerPoint to guide your teaching during every lesson (all books, targets, activity and workbook pages are included in the PowerPoint- Also includes directions for converting the PowerPoint to Google Slides)
-NOTE: You will need to purchase 4 small plants and carnation flowers for the experiments

OUTLINE OF UNIT 2:

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

*Please download the preview to see all that is included, including NGSS Alignment and samples of everything!*

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Each unit in this curriculum contains a PowerPoint that guides each lesson and contains the learning targets, read aloud books, some activities, and student workbook pages. You can upload the 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.)

-------OTHER LITTLE 2ND GRADE SCIENCE THINKERS UNITS:--------
Unit 1: MATTER

Unit 2: LIVING THINGS

Unit 3: HABITATS
Unit 4: EARTH'S SYSTEMS

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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 .

--------------------------RELATED CURRICULUM-------------------------------

KINDERGARTEN Little Science Thinkers

FIRST GRADE Little Science Thinkers

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