Specific Elements Used from the Maryland State Science Curriculum for Second Grade
Other curriculum elements may be added to this unit, depending upon what projects or experiments the teacher includes and their approach to those activities.
Standard 1.0 Skills and Processes
TOPIC
A.
INDICATOR
1. Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out.
OBJECTIVES
a. Describe what can be learned about things by just observing those things carefully and adding information by sometimes doing something to the things and noting what happens.
b. Seek information through reading, observation, exploration, and investigations.
f. Suggest things that you could do to find answers to questions raised by observing objects and/or phenomena (events such as, water disappearing from the classroom aquarium or a pet's water bowl).
TOPIC
B.
INDICATOR
1. People are more likely to believe your ideas if you can give good reasons for them.
OBJECTIVES
b. Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others' ideas.
TOPIC
C.
INDICATOR
1. Ask, "How do you know?" in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when others ask them the same question.
OBJECTIVES
a. Describe things as accurately as possible and compare observations with those of others.
b. Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.
c. Draw pictures that correctly portray at least some features of the thing being described and sequence events (seasons, seed growth).
d. Recognize that everybody can do science and invent things and ideas.
Standard 2.0 Earth/Space Science
TOPIC
A.
INDICATOR
1. Describe and compare properties of a variety of Earth materials.
OBJECTIVES
b. Collect soil from different locations and compare the properties of the samples.
◦ Color
◦ Texture
◦ Reaction to water
◦ Remains of living things
c. Use examples of observations from places around the school and neighborhood to describe ways Earth materials can change.
◦ Changes caused by humans and other animals
◦ Changes caused by water, wind, etc.
http://mdk12.org/assessments/vsc/science/bygrade/grade2.html
TOPIC
A.
INDICATOR
1. Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out.
OBJECTIVES
a. Describe what can be learned about things by just observing those things carefully and adding information by sometimes doing something to the things and noting what happens.
b. Seek information through reading, observation, exploration, and investigations.
f. Suggest things that you could do to find answers to questions raised by observing objects and/or phenomena (events such as, water disappearing from the classroom aquarium or a pet's water bowl).
TOPIC
B.
INDICATOR
1. People are more likely to believe your ideas if you can give good reasons for them.
OBJECTIVES
b. Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others' ideas.
TOPIC
C.
INDICATOR
1. Ask, "How do you know?" in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when others ask them the same question.
OBJECTIVES
a. Describe things as accurately as possible and compare observations with those of others.
b. Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.
c. Draw pictures that correctly portray at least some features of the thing being described and sequence events (seasons, seed growth).
d. Recognize that everybody can do science and invent things and ideas.
Standard 2.0 Earth/Space Science
TOPIC
A.
INDICATOR
1. Describe and compare properties of a variety of Earth materials.
OBJECTIVES
b. Collect soil from different locations and compare the properties of the samples.
◦ Color
◦ Texture
◦ Reaction to water
◦ Remains of living things
c. Use examples of observations from places around the school and neighborhood to describe ways Earth materials can change.
◦ Changes caused by humans and other animals
◦ Changes caused by water, wind, etc.
http://mdk12.org/assessments/vsc/science/bygrade/grade2.html