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2nd grade science thematic unit plans for Microsoft Word
Water Cycle in a Bag Experiment
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Accumulation!
Observe the water cycle in your classroom. Using a sandwich bag and colored water watch the water form vapor and then "rain" inside the baggie. Students love this!
This download includes directions and a two page, detailed observation sheet to record the progress four times.
My class said this was their favorite activity of the year. I hang the baggies on the window facing our school courtyard and always get compliments on how appealing
Grades:
1st - 5th
Creative Curriculum Trees Study Visuals
28 Pages of Visuals for the Creative Curriculum "Trees" study. It starts with Large images of trees, parts of trees, things made out of trees, etc.. to print out for around the room. Then the rest of the document is smaller pictures for you to show on a SMARTboard as question of the day or print out.Visuals range from types trees, images to help identify different kinds of trees, parts of a tree, things made out of wood, and then questions of the day about things that come from trees and animal
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PreK - 6th
Toy Car Golf Math STEAM Design - Gifted and Talented GATE 2nd-4th 9 Hours
Engaging math and engineering with ramps and toy cars! Your students will go home and share the news about how absolutely cool school seems now. My mathematically gifted 2nd graders were VERY Challenged by this unit, and I would not hesitate to use it for 3rd grade GATE or in 4th grade as an enrichment for the whole class.Schoolhouse Rock Math: We’re using Zero My Hero and 5’s Multiplication to learn multiplication, repeated addition, and patterns to calculate areas of rectangles—a very advance
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
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K - 2nd
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Shark Week Unit (Class Project)
Shark Week Unit!
• 2 weeks long
• Integrates Science/Reading/Writing and Technology
• Adjustable to fit a variety of grade levels
• Fun focus around the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week!
This document includes:
• Shark Report Guidelines and Rubric
• List of sharks to choose from for report (with pictures)
• Shark Report example
• Shark Report Presentation date and sign up template
• Shark Articles for students to read
• Loads of shark facts for students to draw out and share daily
• Fun intro
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2nd - 8th
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Space - Mission To Mars Cooperative Simulation 2-Month Unit - PBL friendly
This is an extended cooperative simulation unit for teams of 3-6 students. They will need to work together to make decisions about their mission to Mars. There are 13 lessons, 12 of which have corresponding Mission Log pages where they will be writing and reflecting on the content of each lesson. This unit comprises science, math, art, engineering, writing, collaboration, reading, and critical thinking. Students will have fun working in teams to put together their mission crew, recruit new astro
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Summer Camp In The Classroom: Cross Curricular Lesson Plans
Summer Camp in the Classroom is a simulation in which you transform your classroom into a campground. It has many computer related and non-computer related activities.
Students will work with team mates to select a campsite and map a route. They will participate as a team in learning about:local wildlife; fishing regulations; constellations; campfire cooking; plant, insect, weather, and water safety; using an obstacle course.
Campers will keep logs and scrapbooks while engaging in reading, writ
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Human Body Integrated Unit Lesson Plans for 3 weeks
These lesson plans are designed to pair directly with the Human Body Booklet that is for purchase in my TpT shop! There are lesson plans and experiments that are aligned with Florida State Standards and are integrated for math, PE, Health, Science, Writing, and Reading/Language Arts for all 6 of the body parts. The brain, stomach, lungs, and muscles all include experiments AND data sheets for students to record their information. The skeleton and heart do not include experiements but do include
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Earth Materials 1st grade common core
A ready to copy nine page interactive "text book" for your students! Fill in the blanks with the title words, draw and glue in examples for each earth material property. This can be used as a guide to teach common core standards science 1.E.2, 1.E.2.1, 1.E.2.2. Students can experiment and then fill in the pages with things they experience in the classroom. They are learning ways to classify earth materials. Flexibility: show the 3 earth materials in a container, do they conform to the shape of t
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1st - 2nd
Fire Safety Week PE stations
These are the stations that we use during the 1st week in October to teach fire safety. The students love moving around from station to station and learning by "doing." We also use our 9 1 1 and town fire department phone # in stations for them to understand and remember their importance. Some videos we use in the lessons are a nice addition too. The students do this throughout the week for 2 class periods.
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Grades:
K - 5th
Sustainability/Recycling Unit - Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
A Unit combining HSIE and Science Key Learning Areas.
This unit is designed for a first introductuction and understanding of Sustainability and Recycling.
Learning for Sustainability is about advancing the cause - in the classroom, the campus, the playground, the workplace and in your community.
Our students really enjoyed connecting with their local environment and seeing what they couls do to make a difference.
Key Words: recycling, sustainability, local environment, environment, reduce, reuse
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Habitats and Biomes and Ecosystems, Oh My! Integrated Reading/Science Unit
A few years ago, the science curriculum for our district drastically changed, and with all the focus and energy being placed on test scores, especially in math and language arts, I wondered how I would ever have the time to teach all of the new science curriculum. We also knew that a state science test was in the near future which covered everything from 3rd grade forward. After struggling somewhat the first year, I came up with a plan to incorporate as much reading and science as possible. Du
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2nd - 4th
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Seed Science Activities & Worksheets
Are teaching summer school? Or do you want to incorporate a unit about seeds into your classroom?
This thematic unit allows students to explore seed and plant growth with simple experiments and record sheets for their observations. They will practice all the skills of a scientist through out this unit. They will experiment, predict, record observations, and practice writing about their thinking and learning.
This packet includes:
1. Free Write: Seeds
2. Seed Hunt record sheet
3. Seed Experiment
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Grades:
K - 3rd
10 Day K-2 Thematic Weather Unit
This unit has lessons integrated within all areas of the curriculum. This unit touches areas in Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health, etc.
This unit included 22 lessons including how clouds are formed, thunderstorm safety posters, rainbow formation, wind, sunshine and much much more.
I have included a resource page with websites and a materials page for what is needed for the unit. This was created for a Kindergarten class but could easily be adapted to first or second grade. I h
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Human Body Student Booklet
Trying to teach the human body and just don't like the curriculum given to you? Well fret no longer! Included in this human body booklet is a unit study that can be substituted for the regular old textbook. The study is on 6 of the human body parts: skeleton, muscles, heart, lungs, stomach, and brain. Each body part has a page for 5 facts, a page that states "I learned about the *body part* by _____" and "The most interesting thing about the *body part* that I learned was ______", and also a bla
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1st - 5th
The Moon STEM Science Close Reading Analysis
Included in the STEM-related series are fiction and nonfiction stories and poems that explore different sciences and inspire students to discover a love of or talent for many other opportunities in science-related topics. This excerpt includes "The Moon."Connecting Science and ELA can be an essential element for the classroom. Understanding sciences includes reading, but like many varied careers, researching advancements in a job is required and needed. Other STEM related activities to try:Moun
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2nd - 8th
NGSS:
5-ESS1-2
, MS-ESS1-1
Fossils Tell Us About Long Ago!
This is a 2 or 3 day exploration of fossils. It culminates in a make-your-own fossil activity that students of all ages will LOVE! First, students will explore a variety of fossil resources, then they will partner read or explore on their own. Unit includes a graphic organizer, read-along worksheet and simple instructions to create model magic fossils.
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Watching for Apples - Integrated Thematic Unit
A cross-curricular thematic unit with 50 plus pages for Language Arts, Math, Science, and Arts/Crafts. Based on an original story about a child watching the seasonal changes of her Grandma Charlotte's apple tree, culminating with the harvesting of the apples! Over 35 lessons with activities, games, realistic-looking money, worksheets, booklets, bulletin board ideas, and class research projects, all reproducible and adaptable to your classroom needs. K-2. Includes the following lessons and MANY
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Grades:
K - 2nd
States of Matter Lesson Plans and Unit
This states of matter unit includes lesson plans with core content, choral reading, united streaming videos and clips alike. The unit also includes daily show what you know formative assessments and an end of the unit test. There are great websites and included from online sources.
States of Matter Unit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Weekly Schedule for Elementary Teachers 11x17" (editable)
Like staying organized and seeing your week laid out side-by-side? This weekly schedule makes it easy to plan ahead.
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Grades:
K - 8th
Black History Week 2-Famous Inventors
This is the second week of plans for the 5 week Black History unit I created that includes higher order thinking questions and activities. It covers Indiana Social Studies standards for Kindergarten but can be modified for use as a bellringer or morning work for any grade level. You will want to download the free week 1 plans that go before it for a greater understanding of the class book that will be made during this unit that covers non-fiction Common Core writing standards for all grade leve
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Weather - IB Unit and Lesson Plans
The document includes:
- A four (4) week unit plan on the topic of weather, to include assessments (rubrics)
- 20 detailed lesson plan ideas
- 1 guided reading lesson plan for emerging/beginner readers that can be used as a model for other guided reading lessons tied to this unit
- 1 lesson plan on asking high-quality inquiry questions with related self-assessment tool and all necessary materials to teach this lesson
The unit plan includes the elements in the International Baccalaureate (IB) P
Grades:
1st - 4th
Chicken Life Cycle Journal
For those of you brave enough to hatch chickens have your students keep a life cycle journal of a chicken! I used this with my 4th and 5th grade students with Autism and it was a real hit! I purchased a dozen chicken eggs and each day we observed the eggs (candled when appropriate – discarded eggs without embryo, etc) and drew what we saw and wrote about what we saw and also wrote some predictions about what we thought would happen. To complete the part of drawing what you cannot see, I pulle
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Grades:
K - 5th
Plant Unit
This unit includes various activities and lessons to explore plant growth and development. Can be edited for your students or population needs.
This unit includes:
1. Description
2. Home/school connection letter
3. Living/Non-living picture sort
4. Plant Observation Journal cover/pages
5. Needs of a plant
6. Parts of a seed
7. Seed Travel Experiment
8. Parts of a plant
9. Plants that we eat
10. Interesting Plants- PowerPoint/videos linked
11. Plant life cycle match
12. Plant Writing
13. Plant
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Grades:
K - 3rd
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