Grade 2 Science Long-Range Plan: Maine Standards-Aligned
A fully editable, 40-week Grade 2 science long-range plan aligned with the 2019 Maine Science and Engineering Standards.
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A fully editable, 40-week Grade 2 science long-range plan aligned with the 2019 Maine Science and Engineering Standards.
This editable September-to-June long-range plan maps Grade 2 science learning to the 2013 NGSS and Hawaii Department of Education expectations.
This 50-slide science lesson teaches students about butterfly anatomy, the four life cycle stages, and metamorphosis.
This three-page worksheet introduces radioactive decay and half-life with reference data, calculation practice, graphing, challenge questions, and real-world applications.
This editable 14-page long-range plan organizes Grade 2 and Grade 3 Alberta Science outcomes into a full-year sequence.
This editable 40-week Grade 2 science long-range plan provides September-to-June pacing, standards alignment, learning intentions, assessment evidence, and flexible weekly adjustments.
This six-page worksheet pack reviews solids, liquids, gases, particle motion, properties, and phase changes.
Students calculate kilowatt-hours and electricity costs for common household appliances using guided examples, formulas, and practice tables.
Students investigate how hot water, cold water, vinegar, and cooking oil affect the dissolving rate of candy canes.
This three-page worksheet explains the differences between inner rocky planets and outer gas giants.
Students learn how plants use sunlight, water, and chlorophyll to make food through a guided comic-strip activity.
Students explore their schoolyard to identify natural elements, record sensory observations, and investigate habitats, biodiversity, seasonal changes, and human impact.
This Earth Day activity guides students through a schoolyard nature hunt focused on living and non-living elements, wildlife signs, textures, weather, and human impact.
Students learn to identify plastic, paper, and metal by their observable characteristics, then sort household items into recycling categories.
This four-page environmental science resource teaches students to distinguish pollution from conservation actions.
Students compare solar and wind energy through background reading, land-use analysis, energy-density calculations, and evidence-based argument writing.
Students apply the engineering design process to analyze a bike helmet safety challenge.
This three-page science worksheet introduces the pH scale and helps students classify household substances as acidic, basic, or neutral.
Students explore how latitude affects daylight hours as the winter solstice approaches.
Students investigate how salt concentration affects ice melting and explain the results using the particle model of matter.
This four-page science resource introduces producers, consumers, decomposers, food chains, and energy flow in ecosystems.
Students explore how energy moves through ecosystems by tracing food chains, identifying trophic roles, and analyzing food-web changes.
A four-page worksheet explaining how the Moon’s position relative to Earth and the Sun creates its phases.
This five-page resource introduces how plants make food through photosynthesis, including sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, glucose, oxygen, chlorophyll, and chloroplasts.
This three-page worksheet introduces physical and chemical changes using familiar kitchen processes such as melting butter, baking cookies, and rusting.
This six-page resource introduces evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, and water vapor through student-friendly explanations and visuals.
This four-page resource introduces evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection through an illustrated water-cycle overview and guided notes.
Students identify water bottle problems, define design constraints, sketch a prototype, plan construction, and collect testing data.
Students investigate how water, vinegar, soda, and vegetable oil affect the dissolution rate of candy hearts.
Students solve element clues using atomic numbers, properties, groups, and periods on the periodic table.
Students design, build, and test a sled made from limited materials to determine how many pennies it can carry down a ramp.
Students explore major milestones in space exploration, including Sputnik, Apollo 11, and robotic missions.
Students transcribe DNA into mRNA and translate codons into amino acid sequences using a snowman-themed activity.
Students learn how predator and prey populations interact through vocabulary, guiding questions, and a Canadian lynx and snowshoe hare case study.
This three-page worksheet introduces physical properties of matter, including color, shape, texture, mass, volume, density, and states of matter.
This five-page science activity pack teaches students how refraction and reflection create rainbows.
Students investigate how school building features respond to flooding, extreme heat, and smoke events.
Students investigate the separation of pigments from green food coloring and spinach using paper chromatography.
Students investigate how road salt lowers water’s freezing point and improves winter road safety.
This four-page lesson explores how corn, beans, and squash support one another in the Three Sisters planting system.
This engaging hot chocolate-themed science activity introduces students to solids, liquids, gases, mixtures, solutions, solutes, and solvents.
Students read an informational passage about oil sands, extraction, transportation, refining, and everyday petroleum products.
Students learn how Arizona monsoons form, interpret precipitation charts, identify seasonal patterns, and compare rainfall across Arizona cities.
Students explore Alberta's Boreal Forest and Parkland regions through knowledge checks, comparisons, map activities, and questions about forest importance.
Students analyze historical and modern climate data, including atmospheric CO2 levels and global temperature trends.
This three-page worksheet explores how solar and lunar eclipses occur, including Sun-Moon-Earth alignments, eclipse types, shadows, visibility, and safety.
This four-page worksheet introduces the Maillard reaction and caramelization, explaining how heat, sugars, amino acids, temperature, and pH affect food browning.
Students learn common electrical circuit symbols and the functions of batteries, resistors, switches, LEDs, and wires.