2nd Grade Science in STEMSCOPES Scope and Sequence 2015-2016
Week
1-4
Focus
TEK
Activity-Five E Model
2nd Grade Process Standards 2.1ABC, 2.2ABCDE, 2.3ABC, 2.4AB
Introduction to Science Safety,
Conservation of resources, Discovery
Skills, What Scientists Do, Tools,
Measurement
5
Classifying Matter
2.5 A
6-7
Matter: Changes From Heat
2.5 B
Engage- Students group their shoes by different properties.
Explore- Students identify the physical properties of objects and classify those
objects based on observable properties.
Explain-Vocabulary: length, physical property, matter, solid, liquid, flexibility,
mass, temperature, texture
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate-Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage-Students predict and compare changes to wet paper when heat is
applied and removed.
Explore- Students discover what happens to the physical properties of crayons
when heat is applied to them.
Explain-Vocabulary: solid, liquid, melt, freeze
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
2nd Grade Science in STEMSCOPES Scope and Sequence 2015-2016
8
Physical Changes
2.5CD
9
Forms of Energy
2.6A
10-11
Magnets
2.6B
Engage- Students make physical changes (fold, cut, and/or color) to create
paper airplanes.
Explore- In this activity, students will combine materials to build structures
and justify the selection of materials based on their physical properties.
Explain-Vocabulary: physical property, combine, sanding
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students observe how vibrating objects produce sound energy and
discuss how energy can be increased or decreased.
Explore- Students investigate how heat energy can change a materials state of
matter, how light energy can change how an object appears, and how sound
energy’s vibrations can change depending on the volume.
Explain-Vocabulary: light, energy, dim, bright, increasing, decreasing,
investigate
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students observe and identify the reaction of iron filings to an
assortment of magnets.
Explore- Students sort and compare items based on magnetic properties to
determine which materials will help us in our everyday life.
Explain-Vocabulary: magnet, attract, electric motor, repel,
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
2nd Grade Science in STEMSCOPES Scope and Sequence 2015-2016
12-13
Patterns of Movement
2.6CD
14
Rocks
2.7A
15-16
Bodies of Water
2.7B
Engage- Students examine the movements of paint-covered marbles over
construction paper.
Explore- Students trace changes in the position of an object over time in a
variety of stations. Teacher may choose to complete the Explore activities in
stations, or to complete each part in a separate class period.
Explain-Vocabulary: movement, force, position, pattern
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students discuss and observe physical characteristics of rocks via
justified rock sorts. Students discuss about the different types of rocks and
determine ways they can be grouped.
Explore- Students observe, sort, and describe rocks based on their physical
properties.
Explain-Vocabulary: rock or mineral, texture, geologist, soil
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students identify and compare the properties of natural sources of
freshwater and saltwater by playing the SWAT game.
Explore- Students identify and compare the properties of natural sources of
freshwater and saltwater.
Explain-Vocabulary: stream, river, lake, ocean/sea
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate-Pre/Post Assessment
2nd Grade Science in STEMSCOPES Scope and Sequence 2015-2016
17-18
Resources
2.7C
19-21
Weather
2.8AB
22-23
Water Cycle
2.8C
Engage- Students distinguish between natural and manmade resources and
develop a class definition of these resources.
Explore- Students learn that man-made resources are used to make many items
in our daily lives, but all can be traced back to natural resources on Earth.
Explain-Vocabulary: resource, natural, manmade, wood, metal, paper, plastic
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students identify the appropriate clothing for different types of
weather.
Explore- Students measure and record weather data over a two week period.
Explain-Vocabulary: rain gauge, wind sock, thermometer, weather, pattern,
data, precipitation
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students identify the water cycle as the cause for why the Earths water
is used over and over again.
Explore- Students explore the processes of the water cycle, including
evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, as connected to weather
conditions.
Explain-Vocabulary: clouds, cycle, precipitation, condensation, evaporation
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
2nd Grade Science in STEMSCOPES Scope and Sequence 2015-2016
Engage- Students create a model to demonstrate the Moon moving through the
night sky.
Explore- Students observe objects in the sky both during the day at school and
at night at home and record their data.
24-25
Objects In The Sky
2.8D
Explain-Vocabulary: moon, stars
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students identify the basic needs of plants animals.
Explore- Students identify organisms basic needs and basic needs problems and
solutions by playing a board game with various levels of questioning.
26
Basic Needs
2.9C
Explain-Vocabulary: basic needs, air, water, sunlight, food, predict
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students compare dormancy and non-dormancy in bulbs and
27-28
Environmental Effects
2.9 B
mealworms and identify factors in the environment that affect dormancy in
plants
Explore- students will identify and describe how plants and animals are affected
by changes in temperature and precipitation.
Explain-Vocabulary: Temperature, migration, Precipitation, Dormacy, Hibernation,
Behavior, Environment, Growth, Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary
Game, and Content Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
2nd Grade Science in STEMSCOPES Scope and Sequence 2015-2016
29-30
Food Chains
2.9C
31-32
Animal Characteristics
2.10A
33-34
Plant Characteristics
2.10B
Engage- Students compare and give examples of the ways living organisms
depend on each other.
Explore- Students create food chains, as well as describe and compare how
organisms depend on each other within a garden, park, beach, lake, and
wooded area.
Explain-Vocabulary: Organism, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator,
prey, energy, food chain. Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary
Game, and Content Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students observe and compare how physical characteristics of animals
help them meet their basic needs.
Explore- Students explore the different physical characteristics and behaviors
that help animals thrive in their environment.
Explain-Vocabulary: physical characteristics, behavior, basic need,
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
Engage- Students review the parts of plants and their basic functions by playing
20 Questions.
Explore- Students explore the different characteristics of plants and how they
help the plant thrive and survive.
Explain-Vocabulary : root, stem, flower, leaves, physical characteristics, basic
needs Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions,
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment
2nd Grade Science in STEMSCOPES Scope and Sequence 2015-2016
35-36
Insect Life Cycle
2.10C
Engage- Students observe and describe the life stages of a complete
metamorphosis
Explore- Students investigate and record some of the unique stages insects
undergo during their life cycle. Students specifically observe a butterfly life
cycle comparing it to other insect life cycles collected.
Explain-Vocabulary: egg, larva, pupa, adult, stage, life cycle
Science Rock, STEMscopedia, Scope Vocabulary Game, and Content
Connections
Elaborate- Open Ended questions
Evaluate- Pre/Post Assessment